Usha Vance Looked Absolutely Stunning in This Form-Fitting Outfit

For Usha Vance, this wasn’t a fluke. The Marie Oliver dress was another addition in what is starting to look like a chromatic thesis: she likes blue, and, evidently, blue likes her. At the 2024 Republican National Convention (fitting, since that was 2024 was the year of the primary colors), she stood at the podium in a cobalt Badgley Mischka dress from the brand’s pre-fall collection that year. Off the rack and originally $395, it was a dramatic detour from the reserved, everyday silhouettes we had seen her in before. The gown flaunted an interesting asymmetrical neckline and a saturated hue that asserted itself well against the LED-saturated stage.

Then, at the 2025 Commander-in-Chief Inaugural Ball, Usha Vance delivered one of her most theatrical outings to date. Standing beside her husband under the presidential seal, she wore a custom strapless Reem Acra gown in layered, shimmering shades of blue. The bodice was corseted, scattered with vertical sequin beading before cascading into a sheer tulle overlay of sapphire, navy, cornflower and slate.

Even in Paris — a city that rarely yields its fashion spotlight to visiting Americans – Usha Vance looked entirely at ease in the hue. Meeting President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte, Macron outside the Élysée Palace, she wore a satin dress by Favorite Daughter, a line co-founded by Hollywood sisters Erin and Sara Foster. Retailing at $298, the dress featured subtle pleating at the shoulder and waist. It was, once again, blue — this time in its most diplomatic shade. If red is the color of valor, and white the color of purity, then blue — in Usha’s wardrobe — is what happens when good style trumps the party line (or, at least, the party color).