Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined female lawmakers in wearing all white to last night's State of the Union address in honor of the work of suffragists. The style direction was at the request of the Democratic Women's Working Group.
Ever the stylish millennial and House member, Ocasio-Cortez took her look a step further from your everyday white suit or dress to Gwyneth-Paltrow-in-Tom-Ford-at-the-Oscars places, wearing a white cape-jacket hybrid paired with coordinating pants. Adding her signature gold hoops and red lip, she channeled a '90s Sade on a mission to help save us all. Wearing an actual cape doesn't hurt the superhero connotations.
"2019 is the 100th anniversary of the women’s right to vote... There’s so much more that we have to fight for, from wage equality to paycheck fairness to protecting ourselves and believing survivors,"AOC told CNN before President Donald Trump’s address.
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Ocasio-Cortez attended the event with Ana María Archila, the NY-14 resident who confronted Jeff Flake in the elevator ahead of the Kavanaugh vote.
Social media was instantly infatuated with the freshman congresswoman's latest stylish look—with some likening her to Olivia Pope, donning the figurative white hat.
The New York native accessorized her statement-making jacket with impactful pins, including one with a likeness of Jakelin Caal Maquin, the seven-year-old Guatemalan child who died while in ICE custody at the border last year, and another with the famed feminist quote "Well-behaved women rarely make history." Here's to more young women in positions of power not heeding the status quo.
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