Michelle Obama's Go-to Designer Is Refusing to Dress Melania Trump

The latest member of the Trump family to receive a cold shoulder from the fashion industry is future First Lady Melania Trump.
Allure reports that this week, Theallet released a statement saying that she will not dress the future First Lady. And she’s calling on other designers to do the same.
Designer Sophie Theallet has been responsible for some of Michelle Obama’s best looks. She has not only refused to dress the future first lady but is calling on other designers to do the same.
“As one who celebrates and strives for diversity, individual freedom and respect for all lifestyles, I will not participate in dressing or associating in any way with the next First Lady.
The rhetoric of racism, sexism and xenophobia unleashed by her husband’s presidential campaign are incompatible with the shared values we live by,” she wrote in her emailed statement.
“I encourage my fellow designers to do the same.”
Her stand presents a quandary for the American design community. Up until now, no one has really been dressing the future First Lady—for the most part, she’s been sticking to European labels and the occasional off-the-rack Ralph Lauren on the campaign trail.