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“This is an absolutely fabricated and completely fake quote that somehow went viral,” a spokeswomanwrote Tuesdayon Ford’s official Twitter account. “Mr. Ford did not make this statement; it is completely false.”
Ford was for a time a trending topic on Twitter and the confusion over the alleged statement was highlighted in Twitter’s curated “moments” section, which spotlights news of the day.
Accordingto theWashington Post, it appears to trace back to a Monday tweet from a user who wrote, “Tom Ford refuses to dressMelania Trump: ‘I have no interest in dressing a glorified escort who steals speeches and has bad taste in men.’ ”
The original tweet was shared some 3,000 times, thePostreports.
“It wasn’t intentionally [sic], please accept my apologies once again,” the user behind the false Ford tweetwrote Tuesday afternoon.
Ford,who is the incoming chairmanof the Council of Fashion Designers of America, has said he would not dress the first lady — but that was because he felt his clothing was not accessible enough to be worn in the White House,he said onThe Viewin November 2016, which (confusingly) formed the basis of the falseDaily Mailscreenshot that lead to this week’s debunked tweet.
Fordalso toldEllethe following January: “I think that whoever is the president, or the first lady, should be wearing clothes at a price point that are accessible to most Americans, and wearing clothes made in America. My clothes are made in Italy, they’re very, very expensive. I don’t think most women or men in our country can relate to that, and I think the first lady or the president should represent all people.”
Mrs. Trump has said she’s had trouble getting designers to dress her since her husband became a politician.
A sourcetold PEOPLE much the same in 2016: “This has already been going on for months. Designers wouldn’t lend to Melania, Ivanka or Tiffany, so they either bought the items themselves or wore Ivanka’s brand.”
After Karl Lagerfeld died in February, the first ladyremembered him for working with herwhen others did not, many of whomcited political objections.
“Today the world lost a creative genius,” Mrs. Trump wrote on Twitter. “We will miss you Karl!”
source: people.com
