Kamala Harris and Jill Biden's Inauguration Fashion Delivered a Message of Hope
Jessica Iredale
Before any swearing in or speeches made on Inauguration Day, the clothes spoke. Beginning on the eve of the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, then-President Elect Joseph R. Biden and Dr. Jill Biden, and then-Vice President elect Kamala Harris and Douglas Emhoff began telegraphing their messages with their outfits, the bigger statements, as usual, emanating from the women.
For a late afternoon vigil to honor the 400,000 American lives lost to Covid-19 on Tuesday, Dr. Biden and Vice President Harris chose to wear emerging American designers, the former clad in a full violet look by Jonathan Cohen Studio, the latter in a camel coat — classically cut but for the most subtle of novelty in the gentle wave of the back flap — by Pyer Moss’s Kerby Jean-Raymond. Both women were dressed for the occasion, which is to say they were dressed up and appropriately so for their respective roles and personal styles.