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White House: Jill Biden’s Turquoise Vlisco Dress for the White House U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Dinner
Jill Biden, the wife of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden attended the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Dinner at The White House in a custom strapless turquoise Vlisco dress. Wondering why Jill opted for a wax print dress for the occasion? “For me, the fabric and style of this dress embodies the beauty and strength of the women I met throughout my visit to Africa last month,” Jill Biden said to the Washington Post.
In July, Jill took a week-long trip to Africa with stops in Zambia, Congo, and Sierra Leone, highlighting female empowerment, education and economic development. In Congo, Biden met sewing shop owner Madame Monique Gieskes, 53, a regional group director for Vlisco. Gieskes trains women, many of whom have been the victims of gender-based violence, to become tailors and eventually run fashion-based businesses of their own. After meeting Gieskes and touring the Vlisco flagship store, Biden decided what she would wear to the White House dinner.
“The first thing I noted was how amazed she was with the different colors we had. It was like fireworks, so many colors,” said Gieskes in a phone interview from her shop in Kinshasa, the capital Congo. She eventually steered Biden toward a “turquoise blue that would fit her complexion.” With the biggest decision made, the shop then took Biden’s measurements and the dress was ready at 10 a.m the next morning to make the 6,500-mile trip back to Washington. “It can take three to four days usually, but we knew she was leaving the next day,” explained Gieskes, adding that a seamstress (Ms. Sera Ruhimbasa) volunteered to work through the night.
The dress, sent a powerful message to the “underprivileged and talented” women Gieskes works with. “A woman anywhere in the world, you see–no matter the continent, no matter the color–what she chooses to wear is supporting what another woman is doing in her country,” said Gieskes.
(Source: The Washington Post)
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