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Jill Biden’s Oscar de la Renta dress sells out within hours
Future first lady wore dress for event celebrating Joe Biden’s presidential win
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Your support makes all the difference.Jill Biden appears to be stepping into the role of style icon as well as first lady, as the dress she wore for her husband Joe Biden’s presidential acceptance speech sold out within hours.
On Saturday, after Mr Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris addressed the nation, Dr Biden joined them on stage wearing a $5,690 blue Oscar de la Renta dress with panel detailing and floral embroidery.
At the time of the celebratory event, the mid-length short-sleeved dress was available on designer outlet website The Outnet for $1,707, according to The Telegraph.
However, just hours after Dr Biden donned the wool-blend floral designer dress, which she paired with fuschia heels, it sold out online.
The speed at which the dress sold out is unsurprising when considering the positive response to the educator’s outfit on social media.
“I know this is not the point of any of this, but I'm in love with Jill Biden's dress,” one person tweeted Saturday, while another said: “Can we talk about Jill Biden’s dress?! I need it. I have nowhere to wear it, but it is gorgeous!”
Shortly after the event, the designer paid tribute to the future first lady and the dress on Instagram.
“Today we congratulate our president-elect Joe Biden and first lady Dr Jill Biden,” the brand captioned a photo of Mr and Dr Biden from the event. “Jill Biden, standing beside, wears a navy floral vine dress by Oscar de la Renta.”
Following the event, Oscar de la Renta also shared a closer look at the process that went into creating the navy dress for the 69-year-old English professor.
“Hope springs eternal. A closer look at incoming first lady Dr Jill Biden’s dress, which features house-signature asymmetric drapery and spirited floral-vine embroidery,” the caption on the photo of the dress reads. “Co-creative director @fernandogarciam1205 and in-house modiste, Luis, prep it in our atelier ahead of her acceptance night debut.”
However, as Vogue noted, Dr Biden’s outfit choice wasn’t just widely appreciated, it was also significant, as it was “designed by Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim, both immigrants to the United States who trained under Oscar de la Renta (himself an immigrant from the Dominican Republic).”
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