First lady Melania Trump attended Monday evening’s inaugural balls in a custom black and white gown by her longtime fashion confidant Hervé Pierre, the French-American couturier who has designed at Balmain, Carolina Hererra, and Oscar de la Renta.
Melania Trump stepped out following the inaugural ceremony, where she wore an Adam Lippes coat and Eric Javits hat, in a silk crepe dress encircled with a black silk gazar ribbon custom made by Hervé Pierre.
Mrs. Trump and Pierre paired the strapless gown with a choker made of the same black silk gazar that features a Harry Winston diamond broach from 1955 — a borrowed piece meant to capture the design’s ethos: Flowers tied together by a ribbon.
On her feet, Mrs. Trump chose
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