Designers Diss Melania Trump, but not Tommy Hilfiger

Designers from all over the world fawned over the chance to dress Michelle Obama these last eight years making her one of the most fashionably and expensively dressed first ladies of all time. But with the election of Donald Trump, some designers don’t want anything to do with the next first lady, which is strange since she was a professional model.

But not Tommy Hilfiger, he says any fashion designers should be “proud” to dress Melania Trump:

“I think Melania is a very beautiful woman, and I think any designer should be proud to dress her.”

Hilfiger made that declaration in defense of Mrs. Trump being boycotted by French fashion designer Sophie Theallet who wrote a scathing rebuke of the first-lady-to-be:

Open letter | Sophie Theallet | November 17th, 2016 pic.twitter.com/g1hIAyBmdF

— sophie theallet (@sophietheallet) November 17, 2016

It’s obvious Hilfiger doesn’t agree with this boycott. Besides it being a horrible business decision, Hilfiger knows the family personally and doesn’t appear to share the same opinions, at least about Trump’s wife and daughter. As Yahoo! Style points out, he worked with a teenaged Ivanka for a blue jeans campaign years ago and said of her, “She was a doll, she was a sweetheart.”

“She is today,” Hilfiger added. “More sophisticated, more grown up. She’s an amazing girl.”

It is also noted that Hilfiger was recently seen at Trump Tower in New York along with hundreds of others who have been coming and going as the president-elect assembles his transition team. Perhaps Hilfiger’s designs will be front and center on inauguration day. Theallet certainly blew her chance.