For style watchers, one of the main factors of interest lies in the clothes of their respective first ladies, Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan.

Although you may think it’s miles sexist to polish the spotlight over again on their style picks in preference to their paintings, you cannot deny that the 2 first ladies had been the use of style to their advantage, or some would say disadvantage, especially in the case of Melania Trump.

In June of this 12 months, the previous version attracted heavy criticism while she wore a Zara jacket announcing, ‘I sincerely don’t care. Do U?’ even as boarding Air Force One to visit migrant youngsters on the Texas-Mexico border. Melania Trump, in a floral Gucci, gets dressed. Photo: Reuters

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She later stated in a TV interview that the message becomes aimed toward “the left-wing media, who’re criticizing me, and I need to show them that I don’t care”. Never one to pull away from controversy, simply final week, she wore a black Dolce & Gabbana lace get dressed at a Thanksgiving dinner in Florida.

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She had worn the Italian label’s garments before, maximum famously a US$ fifty-one,500 fur jacket to an event in Sicily in 2017, but this present day outfit choice got here only days after the emblem courted fury in China with a controversial ad campaign offering a version struggling to consume Italian meals with chopsticks and co-founder Stefano Gabbana’s now infamous social media rant calling China “a country of s***”.

On the other hand, Peng Liyuan, spouse of Chinese President Xi Jinping, has been a good deal greater subdued along with her fashion alternatives.

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The other halves of the G20 leaders (left to proper, bottom line) Turkey’s Emine Erdogan, Canadian Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, China’s Peng Liyuan, Argentinian Juliana Awada, US Melania Trump, Singaporean Lee Hsien Loong, European Council president’s wife Malgorzata Tusk, (left to proper, centerline) South Korean Kim Jung-sook, France’s Brigitte Macron, Japanese Akie Abe, Indonesian Mufidah Jusuf Kalla, (pinnacle line) IDB president’s wife Maria Gabriela Sigala and Financial Stability Board president’s wife, Diana Carney. Photo: AFP
Shunning excessive-cease foreign brands and showy outfits, the previous people singer is regularly clad in sober, and some might say conservative Western-style skirt fits and coat clothes.

She has also displayed her patriotism at numerous high-profile events, opting for Chinese patterns consisting of the qipao and deciding to put on Chinese designers. Her maximum common desire is Exception de Mixmind (designed through Ma Ke), which she has worn on many journeys abroad, assisting boost the label’s profile around the sector.

Chinese First Lady Peng Liyuan’s qipao-style dress. Photo: EPA-EFE

This is in comparison with Trump, who isis regularly blamed for not championing American fashion, as her predecessor Michelle Obama did. Instead, she favors Italian or French luxury labels with Gucci, Chanel, Dior, and Valentino.

Eschewing consolation for glamour, Trump boarded Air Force One to go to Argentina clad in a US$6,000 brown leather coat from Ralph Lauren paired with a pink Derek Lam pencil skirt and a pair of towering snakeskin heels. The first lady impact on fashion: how their selections of outfits can transform a label’s fortunes.

For her first public appearance in conjunction with the alternative first women on the Villa Ocampo museum in Buenos Aires, she wore a sleeveless pleated floral-print Gucci dress and green excessive-heeled shoe status out among her fellow first girls, who all opted for extra conservative clothing.

President Donald Trump and primary woman Melania Trump pose for a photo with Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri and his wife Juliana Awada beforehand of Friday night time’s dinner. Photo: AP Peng chose a fashionable qipao-style long-sleeved get dressed in ivory adorned with a brooch.

It’s really worth mentioning that besides Trump, none of the opposite first women chose to “naked hands” (Michelle Obama famously made the sleeveless get dressed her default uniform during her years at the White House) and that the better halves of Asian leaders all wore long sleeves and demure appears. France’s Brigitte Macron and Argentina’s Juliana Awada displayed their impeccable style senses with white brief-sleeved dresses.

Melania Trump arrived in Argentina sporting a US$6,000 Ralph Lauren coat. Photo: EPA-EFE. At a gala dinner hosted by Argentine President Mauricio Macri and his wife at the Colon Theatre in Buenos Aires on Friday night, Peng selected a conservative silk night robe in cobalt blue paired with an identical jacket even as Trump chose. Still, every other sleeveless brown dress paired with Louboutin heels, searching a bit dressed down for this kind of formal event.

Xi Jinping wore a Mao jacket for a formal dinner with Queen Letizia and King Felipe of Spain. Photo: EPA-EFE
But lest you suspect that it’s most effective first women who make fashion statements, Xi additionally made one along with his outfit preference at a gala dinner in Madrid hosted with the aid of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain on Wednesday night.

Instead of wearing Western-fashion suits, Xi and his cohort of delegates chose to wear Mao suits and conventional jackets with Mandarin collars – for once stealing the limelight from the ladies in attendance.