Inauguration Day style decoded, from Kamala Harris’s pearls to Joe Biden in Ralph Lauren
It was day of celebration for American fashion designers as everyone from Michelle Obama to Jill Biden showed their support
Kamala Harris and Jill Biden in Washington
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This Inauguration Day was always going to be different. There would be no parade for millions of cheering admirers. No Governor’s Ball. Nor, in the absence of the latter, any inauguration gowns (making Dr Jill Biden the first First Lady not to have an inaugural gown to donate to the Smithsonian after the event, as is customary).
Biden s inauguration came at a time of national tumult and uncertainty, a ceremony of resilience as the hallowed American democratic rite unfurled at a US Capitol battered by an insurrectionist siege just two weeks ago