Inside Melania Trump’s US$100,000 shoe collection: from Valentino and Christian Louboutin, to Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik, she’s got 130 pairs in New York alone …
- Melania showed off one shoe wardrobe on Twitter that has more than 100 pairs of designer Louboutins, Jimmy Choo and Valentino heels worth US$1,000 each
- The former first lady was heavily criticised for wearing Manolo Blahnik heels to visit a flood zone in 2017, with Donald Trump and the Spanish designer defending her
Melania Trump may be one of the US’ tallest ever first ladies at a height of 180cm (5 feet 11 inches), but that doesn’t stop her from wearing sky-high stilettos. Even before her time in the White House, Donald Trump’s wife was so fond of her shoe collection that she regularly posted shots of her footwear on Twitter, seemingly having an expensive pair for every occasion. And in a 2010 photo shoot she showed off a section of her wardrobe that had 10 rows of footwear reaching all the way to the ceiling (we counted 130 pairs).
It’s not unusual for first ladies to wear designer heels that hover around the US$1,000 mark, but they also tend to be dressed gratis by designers keen to have their brand attached to the president. Page Six once described the hustle and bustle in Trump Tower thus: “Most days, the lobby is brimming with wardrobe boxes delivered for Melania. Once she tries on the outfits and decides what she will keep, the boxes come back downstairs.”
Here’s a peek inside Melania’s shoe vault.
Lovely Louboutins
Long before Donald was in the running for president, Melania was sharing snaps of favourite shoes on Twitter, including her Christian Louboutins. In a 2010 photo shoot, she showed off rows and rows of black, red-bottomed pumps from the French designer.
In one tweet from 2012, Trump told followers how she loves “wearing super high heels!” and highlighted that, for one day in October, she’d opted for a “crosspiga python Moroccan red/black” pair.
