Tonight, President Joe Biden addressed points starting from the financial system to abortion rights on the State of the Union, with Vice President Kamala Harris assuming her designated place simply behind him on the dais to the correct. Whereas vogue was predictably not a part of the deal with, it nonetheless spoke volumes.
For the event, Harris wore traditional items from her wardrobe: a black Alexander McQueen go well with, a cream Saint Laurent shirt, and suede pumps by Manolo Blahnik. The Vice President traded her signature pearls for a gold Tiffany & Co. necklace, and wore an American lapel flag pin. This is not the primary time Harris has pulled the search for a major occasion. Late final 12 months, she wore the identical go well with to pay her respects to Sandra Day O’Connor—the primary girl to serve on the US Supreme Court docket–because the late justice lay in repose.
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Seated in her field stage left, First Woman Dr. Jill Biden wore a belted Ralph Lauren skirt go well with in mint inexperienced, accented with a brooch. The First Woman was joined by invited friends that included Latorya Beasley—an Alabama ladies pressured to halt her IVF therapies following the state’s Supreme Court docket ruling that embryos have to be legally acknowledged as kids—and civil rights activist Bettie Mae Fikes, who, in 1965, marched in Selma, Ala. on Bloody Sunday. (At the moment marks the 59th anniversary of the notorious march.) Final month, Dr. Biden wore the go well with throughout a go to to Inexperienced Bay, Wis. to advertise the administration’s training insurance policies.
Each Vice President Harris and Dr. Biden repeated outfits they’ve chosen for occasions which can be political—sure—but additionally private. Harris, a former district lawyer, in the identical go well with she stated farewell to a legendary feminine justice in; Dr. Biden, a professor, in a glance she beforehand wore whereas discussing training.
