I now realize Melania is not a normal woman. Two women had described having sex with her husband on national TV in graphic detail in the same week. Her private response: It's politics.' Her public response: dead silence. It just wasn't a human reaction.

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Women Politics Men

I'm not about the next big trend. I'm about the silhouette and right fit and right designer for me.

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Design Trend T

My wardrobe reflects my long-standing belief that great style lives in the details.

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War Great Wardrobe

I organize my closet by season, color, and silhouette, but I don't edit often enough, which causes me to hoard Hermes cuffs in Hermes bags that are crammed into my living room because my closet is overflowing.

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Wing Win Which

It's perfectly acceptable to wear a short dress to formal occasions.

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Wear Table T

I try to keep my appearance classic and sophisticated.

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Try Ted T

I've always adored Sophia Loren.

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Ways Way Sophia Loren

My favorite event of the season is the Costume Institute Gala at the Met in May. To that I'll wear custom Vera Wang.

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Wear Vent Us

Ivanka was relentless and was determined to be the First Daughter Lady and to usurp office space out from under Melania; she wanted to be the only visible female Trump on the premises.

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Space Wanted Want

We need to incorporate fashion into every element and institution, whether it be through designer-lecture series, photography exhibitions, or collaborative efforts between artists and designers.

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Men Design Art

It's not that I'm a control freak - but I am. I want to make sure everything is perfect.

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Want Very Thing

I love my Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren, Carolina Herrera, Vera Wang. I've grown up with them.

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Love Car Wit

If I have time to dash home before an event, I love to swap workwear for something a bit more whimsical.

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Work Time Love

When I met Melania Knauss in 2003, we were both 32 years old and walking the hallways of Vogue. I was working; she was visiting.

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Work Years Year

Ivanka was asking her work contacts at the White House to write to her at her private email - the exact offense the Trumps had lambasted Hillary Clinton for during the general election. Would anyone chant 'Lock her up!' about Ivanka's private server? Doubtful.

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Work Write Would

Yes, Operation Block Ivanka was petty. Melania was in on this mission. But in our minds, Ivanka shouldn't have made herself the center of attention in her father's inauguration.

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Pet Yes Van

Ivanka would never stop trying to muscle in on Melania's events.

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Yin Would Vent

I believed that regardless of political ideologies - the reality was I didn't even have any - which is no excuse, and it's a horrible thing to admit, but I've admitted it - you can't get into something not knowing who the players are, but also not understanding that policy and ethics go together.

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You Wing Win

When you make a mistake, own up to it.

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You Up Take

Listen, fashion and entertainment is tough, but you see it as it is. You understand what's going on around you.

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Men You Understand

I've dedicated my life to being true and honest and I would never take advantage of something.

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Life Age Would

Melania and the White House had accused me of criminal activity, had publicly shamed and fired me, and made me their scapegoat.

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For the record, my personal compensation for my work on the inauguration that I retained was $480,000. That number may seem like a lot. It is a lot.

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I witnessed the transformation of Melania from gold plate into twenty-four karat gold. I believed she had the heart to match.

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A Trump is a Trump is a Trump.

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Melania's a pragmatist, Melania always - you know, if you can't control people's emotions then why even worry about it. And that's how she lived her life and that is what she stood by every day.

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What attracted me to Melania is her strength, her independence, her doesn't-matter-what-anybody-else-thinks attitude.

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Literally a headline destroyed my life and took away everything that I'd ever built.

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It is my moral obligation to vote for Biden because I do not believe that Trump is a decent person and I believe in my heart that Biden is.

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If I don't know something, I'll tell you I don't know it. If I'm not sure about something, I'll say I'm not sure.

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I made a life-changing mistake. I continued working for Melania, and at the White House, even though the environment was toxic, because I believed I could make a difference.

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With the publication of my book, Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady,' I have exercised my right to free expression.

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

I now realize Melania is not a normal woman. Two women had described having sex with her husband on national TV in graphic detail in the same week. Her private response: It's politics.' Her public response: dead silence. It just wasn't a human reaction.

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

I can't live without my Hermes day planner.

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I put on three or four outfits a day during Fashion Week.

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I live in a lot of Alexander McQueen.

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I really do think that it's going to be very important that fashion at Lincoln Center becomes a year-round initiative.

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Fashion, ultimately, is for the masses.

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I'm a worker. I need to keep busy.

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I knew Anna Wintour was the editor in chief of Vogue,' I just didn't understand what it meant to wait around to meet with Anna Wintour.

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I didn't lie that I read Vogue' every day or that I grew up loving fashion, but I did know how to roll up my sleeves and do whatever it took to learn it.

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The Costume Institute Benefit became my baby. It was something that I lived, breathed, day and night.

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Fashion was not something that I knew about. It just wasn't really particularly interesting.

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After being at Vogue' for two years in PR, I decided to bring all events in-house. That's how I became the director of events.

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I was not a fashionista. I played Division I basketball. I'm a black belt in karate.

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I see fashion as going on par with all the other cultural institutions here. Ballet, theater, opera - I don't see fashion differently.

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Style depends more on how you carry yourself in the clothes than the clothes alone, but a killer pair of heels doesn't hurt.

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I am so grateful for my experience at Lincoln Center working to help relocate New York's largest media event - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

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Actually, I live in T-shirts and True Religion jeans.

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I realized we're all perfectly imperfect, which was a big thing. Perfectionism, to me, was an important thing.

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I have ambition and drive, and I'm passionate about the fashion industry.

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