Is it or not?
On Tuesday A list Showed up on eBay, who reportedly offered Melania Trump’s wedding dress for sale. You know, the one designed by John Galliano for Dior Couture, reportedly cost more than $ 100,000, worn by the First Lady on her Mar-a-Lago wedding with Donald J. Trump and was only on her Vogue coverin February 2005.
The dress, priced at $ 45,000 by a woman who identifies herself as SVJABC1 and in Massapequa, NY, is described as being “made of Duke Satijn” with “a figure-hug-lived silhouette, a 90-meter voluminous skirt and embroidered with 1500 Swarovski Diamants.” According to the offer, the seller bought Mrs. Trump’s dress for her own wedding in 2010 for $ 70,000. It does not come up with any proof of authenticity, other than 21 photos that emphasize his wavy train and diamond bobbinry, which are alternated against the famous Vogue cover, probably to show the similarity.
The magazine story, which described the upcoming search of Mrs Trump for her dress during the Couture shows, also contained many details about the dress that made news at that time and has appeared again with the sale, including the fact that it weighed 60 pounds and lasted 550 hours to complete.
Almost immediately the news was embraced by countless points of sale and stated: “You can buy Melania Trump’s wedding dress” (The viewer) and “How much would you pay for Melania Trump’s wedding dress?” ((The cut). From Wednesday morning the offer was “viewed” by 224 people.
Apart from the fact that the seller on the list acknowledges that she has made “a few changes” in the dress – more satin, more embroidery and belts – which means that it no longer looks identical to Mrs Trump’s dress, there is another problem. The designer Hervé Pierre, the old stylist of Mrs. Trump (he made her inauguration dresses in 2017 and 2025), said about her wedding dress: “I stored the dress myself in Palm Beach.”
And then added: “Two years ago.”
Neither the office of the First Lady nor the seller responded to several requests for comments. Dior also refused to comment on the dress and noted that it was a policy not to discuss interactions with couture customers. However, a spokesperson pointed out that a couture dress is always delivered with a label and a number. To verify it, he said, they should see the dress personally.
Mr. Pierre said that the wedding dress he had stored in Florida for Mrs. Trump had a label on the side and a ribbon with a reference number. In the multiple close-ups of the dress for sale on eBay, no label shows.
Alexis Hoopes, the vice -president for fashion on eBay, said that the company was founded on the basis of trust and referred to the widespread authenticity guarantee policy, which includes watches, handbags, jewelry, streetwear, sneakers and trade cards, although she acknowledged that the warranty program did not extend “item in item” “” “”
Nevertheless, the decision to use eBay is to sell a historic item of clothing, albeit that has been changed, a special one, said Cameron Silver, the owner of the Los Angeles Vintage Boutique decades.
“I would always propose an auction house for historical clothing with origin,” he said. Companies like Christie’s have auctioned clothing from figures such as Audrey HepburnWhile Julien was sold in London Princess Diana’s dressesAnd Kerry Taylor auctions The clothing of Elizabeth Taylor, Leslie Caron and Jerry Hall handled.
The list came to the attention for the first time due to the substack of Liana Satenstein, Never wors. Mrs. Satenstein said she became aware of a friend, Patricia Torvalds, who was looking for a vintage wedding dress and corresponded to the seller. According to Mrs. Torvalds, the seller, who has been on eBay since November 2021, has moved 119 items and a positive feedback rating of 98.8 percent, said she had bought the dress through another friend, who claimed to know Mrs. Trump.
According to eBay messages between the two women who were seen by the New York Times, the seller said that the label was removed when the dress was changed by the seamstress and was never replaced. (She also has a number of other items on eBay, including A diamond wedding band Made as a replica of the person who wore Mrs. Trump on her wedding day.) She said she received many messages from people who were curious about the dress and its origin. Nevertheless, the list is still on.
Where the dress actually comes from is unclear. When a well -known figure often marries in a public way and the dress is characterized in a magazine such as Vogue, it is copied and offered for sale by a number of wedding designers. The original dress was inspired by a look of the “Empress Sissi” Dior Couture collection from Mr. Galliano in February 2004, so it is possible that a monster has been sold.
In any case, the willingness of many people is to accept the idea that the dress could have belonged to Mrs Trump and that she was willing to sell her wedding dress – a piece of clothing that is generally accepted, most people is forever – is a reflection of the complicated feelings that people have about the trust, their relationship they have taught.
Indeed, Mrs. Trump sells himself jewelleryornaments and her own memecoin Via her website. In 2022, in a break with First Lady Precedent, she auctioned another historical item of clothing from her wardrobe instead of donating it to the national archive: the white hat she wore in 2018 during the first Trump government on the occasion of the French state visit.
Of course, at the time of that sale, the First Lady ensured that he signed the hat in case there was some doubt where it came from.
