Is it or isn’t it?
On Tuesday, a listing surfaced on eBay purportedly providing Melania Trump’s marriage ceremony gown on the market. , the one designed by John Galliano for Dior couture, reportedly costing greater than $100,000, worn by the primary woman at her Mar-a-Lago marriage ceremony to Donald J. Trump and featured on her solely Vogue cover, in February 2005.
The gown, priced at $45,000 by a lady who identifies herself as Svjabc1 and is in Massapequa, N.Y., is described as being “product of duchesse satin” with “a figure-hugging silhouette, a 90-meter voluminous skirt and embroidered with 1,500 Swarovski diamonds.” In response to the itemizing, the vendor purchased the gown from Mrs. Trump for her personal marriage ceremony in 2010 for $70,000. It doesn’t include any proof of authenticity, apart from 21 images highlighting its billowing prepare and diamanté embroidery, that are juxtaposed towards the well-known Vogue cowl, presumably to indicate the similarity.
The journal story, which described the soon-to-be Mrs. Trump’s seek for her robe through the couture reveals, additionally contained many particulars in regards to the gown that made information on the time and have resurfaced with the sale, together with the truth that it weighed 60 kilos and took 550 hours to finish.
Virtually instantly the information was embraced by quite a few shops, proclaiming, “You Can Purchase Melania Trump’s Marriage ceremony Gown” (The Spectator) and “How A lot Would You Pay for Melania Trump’s Marriage ceremony Gown?” (The Cut). As of Wednesday morning, the itemizing was being “watched” by 224 individuals.
Leaving apart the truth that the vendor acknowledges on the itemizing that she made “a number of adjustments” to the robe — extra satin, extra embroidery and straps — which implies it not appears to be like equivalent to Mrs. Trump’s robe, there’s one other drawback. The designer Hervé Pierre, Mrs. Trump’s longtime stylist (he made her inauguration robes in 2017 and 2025), stated of her marriage ceremony gown, “I saved the robe myself in Palm Seaside.”
