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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

Eggs, hats and unfettered ambition: what we learned about Melania Trump from her documentary

‘Time no longer mattered’ … Melania Trump.
‘Time no longer mattered’ … Melania Trump. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

She has no friends but everyone who works for her dresses like her

Melania’s appears an entirely airless existence, in which she glides solo about gilt corridors in silence, David Lynch-style, observed by tight-lipped heavies. All her staff dress in deference to her, mostly in black, but sometimes – as in the case of her interior designer – in a matching camel-coloured three-piece suit. Candidates interviewing for assistant roles have also got the memo, lining up in a sea of monochrome, with buttery hair and prominent cross necklaces.

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