Pool photo by Win McnameeJill Biden wore a silky, silvery coat designed by Lela Rose.Jill Biden’s distinctive silvery coat is getting a fair share of attention on the inaugural fashion front, namely because of the large bow at the neckline. A bow is a slightly risky look (remember Aretha Franklin’s hat at the inauguration four years ago?), but Mrs. Biden pulled it off. She looks elegant.
Lela Rose, the designer of Mrs. Biden’s outfit, who also dressed Jenna and Barbara Bush during a previous inauguration, said Mrs. Biden came to her in a unexpected way. Mrs. Biden bought her dress at Neiman Marcus, and the store called Ms. Rose about a week and a half ago, looking for a matching coat.
“I wanted to create a coat that looked good with the dress without being exactly a matching look,” Ms. Rose said in a telephone interview from her home in Sullivan County.
“It was truly a pleasure to dress Mrs. Biden for the inauguration,” she said. “She’s a classic American beauty, and she wears clothes very elegantly.”
The coat is made of a shimmering silk and wool fabric, but, Ms. Rose said, “I’m sure she’s cold. The coat is not all that warm.”
As for the bow, Ms. Rose described it as very “sophisticated.”
“It’s not a jaunty one,” she said. “The color and the slight sheen to that silk and wool all looks very put together. Sometimes, bows can look a little cutesy, and I don’t think this one does at all.”
Source: http://runway.blogs.nytimes.com
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