Kamala Harris’ Style Is ‘Quite Dull’—And That's the Point
As the first female, first Black and first Indian American Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris has already made history more than once. She may also be the first executive officer to have garnered websites breathlessly documenting her style—but only briefly.
Kamala’s Closet launched in November 2020, with a post documenting the then-V.P.-elect honoring the women’s suffragist movement in a resplendent white Carolina Herrera pantsuit. (Her silk-satin pussy bow blouse perhaps throws some sartorial shade toward the then-defeated Donald Trump, and his misogynistic boasts involving genitalia.) The site posted just once more, however, sharing Harris’ landmark—and divisively informal—2021 Vogue cover: a black Donald Deal cropped pantsuit, a scoop-neck top, treasured pearls representing her Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) sorority and go-to Converse Chuck Taylors. Then radio silence.
What Kamala Wore hung on a bit longer—chronicling a consistent wardrobe of somber-hued pantsuits, with an occasional refined camel or conciliatory pastel in the mix, before going dormant in April 2022.