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For a fashion designer, getting the chance lingerie manufacturer to dress a First Lady is a big deal. It's arguably more monumental than a premiere or award show, with just as high a level of glitz and glam. For Christian Siriano, dressing First Lady Michelle Obama twice was a dream — but don't expect Siriano to design clothes for Melania Trump anytime soon. As Siriano tells me in an interview about his current holiday collaboration with Hershey's and other planned projects for 2017, " dont share the same values and the same things." While the designer's schedule is certainly busy, dressing Trump just isn't something that's on his radar right now. And it's certainly not comparable to dressing Obama.

"Obviously Michelle.is a really a special first wholesale bikinis lady. She was a fashion risk taker. She wears things that were unconventional. She was a true fashion icon. Shes what every designer would dream to dress. Shes like any actress that shows up to an event and if you think shes gonna wear a red ball gown, she shows up in pant suit. Thats what you want," Siriano says. "But also Michelle represents a very powerful woman on her own — what she does. Her own charities, her own thing."

Siriano dressed underwear manufacturer Trump in the past for events like the 2010 MET Gala, but that won't be the case going forward, according to him — at least not anytime soon, anyway.

"...unfortunately, Wholesale Corset at this time, what Melania and her world represents, I just dont think represents. we dont share the same values and the same things, as a lot of designers, especially a lot of young gay designers ," Siriano says. "Its very hard to support people that dont support you, which has only been a thing — Im not supporting anybody who doesnt support me, so thats my biggest thing. So well see how the four years go."

While Melania herself has never gone on record saying anything anti-gay marriage or gay rights, President-elect Trump has flip-flopped on the issue: At a presidential debate in October 2016, he claimed he would appoint Supreme Court judges who would try to overturn the marriage equality — obvious point of concern for those in support of marriage equality and LGBTQA+ rights — but during a interview the following month Trump said that he's "fine" with gay marriage. Other designers including Marc Jacobs, Sophie Theallet, and Tom Ford have shared Siriano's sentiment, saying they won't dress Melania Trump when she becomes First Lady for a variety of reasons.

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