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UNITED STATES – JANUARY 20: From left, Doug Emhoff, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, Jill Biden and President-elect Joe Biden wave from the Capitol steps as they arrive for the Inauguration at the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (Photo By Bill Clark\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nobody makes it to the position of Vice President\u2014say nothing of\u00a0being the first woman and woman of color<\/span><\/a> to hold that title\u2014without having an uncanny ability to communicate with the public. And so it comes as no surprise that incoming Vice President, Kamala Harris, used inauguration day<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to make a simple, powerful statement about what her tenure will represent through the simplest mode of communication available to her: her clothing. For a moment that will, for a multitude of reasons, go down in history, Harris opted for a violet purple coat and matching dress by\u00a0Christopher John Rogers<\/span><\/a>, and shoes by Sergio Hudson.<\/p>\n

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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff arrive before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States on the West Front of the US Capitol in Washington,DC on January 20, 2021. (Photo by JONATHAN ERNST \/ POOL \/ AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN ERNST\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The symbolism was two-fold. Rogers is among the most exciting emerging designers in America right now, a young Black man beloved by everyone from Zendaya to Lizzo, who represents, for many, an inclusive, optimistic future for fashion, as is Hudson, who counts Michelle Obama, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Issa Rae among his fans. The color purple was an important choice too. While Joe Biden\u2019s wife, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, opted to wear a powder blue coat dress, Harris\u2019 bold display of purple\u2014a merging of red and blue\u2014represented a visual commitment to the partisan unity that both she and Biden have repeatedly claimed they will enact once in office.<\/p>\n

In fact, the entire image of the inauguration\u2014Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, Joe and Jill Biden<\/a>\u2014represented a masterclass in fashion optics. Both President Biden and Emhoff wore Ralph Lauren (Lauren, the son of poor Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants who turned accessibly-priced high fashion into a $6 billion fashion empire, being the perfect embodiment of the so-called \u2018American dream\u2019), Harris wore Rogers and Hudson, and Biden wore Markarian, the emerging, New York-based brand by the young female designer Alexandra O\u2019Neill. Among them, they spanned the full spectrum of what the Biden\/Harris leadership is hoping to represent: the marriage of classic Democratic values with a new and inclusive vision for the future. See more outfit angles here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania make their way to board Marine One before departing from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on January 20, 2021. – President Trump travels his Mar-a-Lago golf club residence in Palm Beach, Florida, and will not attend the inauguration for President-elect Joe Biden. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN \/ AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a telling sign, when Melania and Donald Trump left the White House\u2014they had refused, in an unprecedented move, to welcome the Bidens to their old residence\u2014Melania wore black. A black skirt suit, black crocodile leather six-inch Louboutins, black oversized Bottega Veneta sunglasses, and a black crocodile skin Herm\u00e8s Birkin. The sartorial contrast was a reminder\u2014as if we needed one, of the nature of what today really represents. Not simply the ushering in of a new political era, but the symbolic death of the old one\u2014the end, hopefully, of a time in which the First Lady finds it appropriate to wear a $71,000 handbag while millions of Americans battle for a lifesaving stimulus check. It was perhaps the closest the outgoing First Lady came to wearing an ‘I Don’t Really Care, Do U?’ jacket. 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