“Many presidents wear cuff links from the White House Gift Shop, so I wanted to get a pair for Claire,” Ms. Harris said. She contacted the gift shop (which was once run by the Secret Service but is now a separate for-profit business no longer affiliated with the executive branch) to ask if it had any samples that had never been used. The gift shop’s director, Anthony Giannini, sent her a pair of prototypes given to him by a Secret Service agent, now retired, who had acquired them under Ronald Reagan. “But you never see a male president with a briefcase or a wallet,” Ms. Harris said. She’s president.’”Indeed, for the first time in the series, fashion labels play a relatively small role in Ms. Wright’s wardrobe.

Source: New York Times November 02, 2018 19:16 UTC