Sergio Hudson, creator of Harris’s elegant evening gown, is also one of Michelle Obama’s favorite designers. The former first lady wore a maroon ensemble signed by Hudson during Biden’s inauguration. All of them stood out as emerging firms led by African Americans to which Kamala gave great visibility, using them as a tool to convey her message: the new administration’s commitment to diversity.
National and controversial designers aside, Kamala Harris’s true hallmark of style is pearls. He wears them very often in all their shapes and colors: black Tahiti, classic white, double stripe … he even wore them to get vaccinated against covid, to match a complete black style. The Puerto Rican designer Wilfredo Rosado He is the creator of many of his pearl necklaces, like the one he chose at the opening ceremony to wear with Rogers’ purple coat. An avant-garde design, a reflection of modernity that can also be transmitted by wearing pearls.
He takes them, he says, because of his sisterhood with the women of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first African-American sisterhood, whose founders are known as ‘the 20 pearls’. Harris has been loyal to the organization since 1986, when he graduated from the Howard University wearing, of course, a pearl necklace. Since then, she has worn them at all her important public events. Symbol of the classic and successful woman, but also of transgression with those black bets. Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Obama The Jacqueline Kennedy they also used the pearls repeatedly. Elegance, confidence, femininity and wisdom, as in the case of Kamala, is what transmits the most classic jewelry accessory of all.
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