SHANE WATSON: How Ivanka Trump is following in Kate Middleton's footsteps when it comes to outfits
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Mark Zuckerberg may have been distracted by Lauren Sanchez’s boudoir bra, Donald Trump may have looked daggers at Melania’s unyielding hat brim, but at the presidential inauguration on Monday, fashion-watchers all over the world only had eyes for the President’s eldest daughter, Ivanka.
![[Pictured: Ivanka attends the National Prayer Service l in Washington DC (left) and Kate Middleton at the 2021 Chrsitmas carol service at Westminster Abbey (right)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/00/94415717-14314687-image-m-76_1737593269785.jpg)
From the green Dior skirt suit she wore to watch her father be sworn in, to the custom-made Givenchy gown in silk taffeta she had made for the Liberty Ball that evening, we loved the clothes, admired the hair – and thought her look strangely familiar.
![[Pictured: Ivanka Trump at the Inauguration Ball this week (left) and Kate Middleton at the 2023 BAFTAS (right)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/00/94415699-14314687-image-a-86_1737593339258.jpg)
For the woman Ivanka most resembled on this historic occasion was our own Kate, Princess of Wales, a woman who has been honing her image at ceremonial occasions for 14 years and who, at 43 years old, is Ivanka’s exact contemporary. Evidently the President’s daughter has been taking notes from our future Queen, and not just in the sense that she has dialled up the timeless elegance and moved several steps away from the brasher style she favoured during Trump’s first term. (For Trump’s 2017 inauguration ceremony she wore an All American ivory pantsuit with an asymmetric long jacket and, for the evening balls, a sequin-spattered, nude-coloured full skirted dress and backcombed hair – worlds away from the minimal elegance of Monday night).
![[The Princess of Wales at the the James Bond No Time To Die World Premiere at Royal Albert Hall on September 28, 2021]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/00/94415703-14314687-image-a-87_1737593344517.jpg)
Ivanka appears to have been studying the wardrobe choices of the Princess of Wales and following her lead to the same designers. Pictured: Ivanka Trump ahead of her Father's second inaugration (left) amd Kate Middleton during an official visit to Scarboroughin 2022 (right).
![[anka Kushner with Josh Kushner and their son at the inauguration of President Trump]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/00/94415711-14314687-image-a-88_1737593351238.jpg)
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