This is like the classiest way to frame a fail. pic.twitter.com/hQhOxAXJr9 — Schooley (@Rschooley) July 24, 2018 Robin Givhan, Washington Post fashion expert: STOP TRYING TO MAKE ‘TRUMP STYLE’ HAPPEN! IT’S NEVER GONNA HAPPEN!…… … The womenswear brand, founded in 2011, was built around the public persona of Ivanka: the tall, blonde corporate executive with …
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… From early on, Ivanka Trump seemed to realize that a formal split between herself and her business was essentially only a talking point given the tacit financial connection between the business and its namesake; she was, after all, the business. Like her father at the Trump Organization, she stepped down from her day-to-day responsibilities at her company and put her interests in a trust. Still, the arrangement would allow her to continue to profit off the business while she served as a senior White House staffer. The Trumps are modern-day vaudevillians who appear primed to sell themselves on multiple levels, at all times—whether it’s a shift dress or a reality show; a childcare tax credit or a travel ban; or even the notion that they belonged in the White House at all. For Ivanka, the chance to take her brand from Trump Tower and departments stores to the White House and the world’s stage was too good to turn down.
But unlike her father, who is testing the limits of his notion that he could get away with murder in broad daylight, Ivanka is no Teflon Don. Since the campaign trail, she has been dogged by criticism over the conflicts of interest that her brand posed. She was dinged for wearing pieces from her line. She caught heat over a distribution deal with a Japanese company that had ties to the government. There was the furor when China issued trademarks to her companies in what seemed like a political gesture. When Nordstrom dropped her line, last year, President Trump tweeted that his daughter had been treated “unfairly,” which prompted senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway to infamously tell Fox News viewers in a live TV interview to “go buy Ivanka’s stuff.” (The White House reviewed appropriate codes of conduct with Conway after members of Congress fumed.)…
In some some ways, this latest move reflects some level of self-preservation. Back in New York, her friend group is smaller, the invitations fewer and farther between, and the city’s denizens are still seething over her father’s election. Sure, she slinks in for meetings or hair appointments or small dinners with confidants every now and then, but former friends note there is not exactly a welcoming committee waiting upon her arrival. Washington, though not without its own perils and criticisms, seems like the safest place for her right now, allowing her to chip away at a host of bipartisan, uncontroversial issues. She can do so while accepting invitations from world leaders, as she has from Angela Merkel, Shinzo Abe, and Narendra Modi, to speak on issues related to female entrepreneurs and workforce development. As one former friend put it to me Tuesday, “There are worse places she could be, because she can profit off the status and plot what comes next.” The person stalled. “Well, unless Mueller comes and strips it all down. And at that point, none of this will matter.”
All of Ivanka's products are made in foreign factories in countries such as Bangladesh, Indonesia and China, where low-wage laborers have limited ability to advocate for themselves, as @drewharwell and I reported last year: https://t.co/ASx8h7T6pt
— Matea Gold (@mateagold) July 24, 2018
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— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 24, 2018