Megyn Kelly’s confident style
Megyn Kelly doesn’t just say what she wants. She wears what she wants.
She writes about that a lot in her book, which is called, naturally, “Settle for More,” a catchphrase she also drops strategically into conversation.
She in no way apologized for wearing a spaghetti-strap dress to cover the Republican National Convention. You know, the one that sent the internet into what she called a “meltdown” because it revealed a whole lot of … shoulder.
And thus, was unlike any dress that had been seen on a serious anchor ever, except maybe at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Definitely never behind a desk.
“It was a lovely dress,” Kelly said. “I just thought: ‘Yes, I can do this. I can be smart and challenging while I wear spaghetti straps, and everyone is just going to have to get their heads around that.’ ”
Indeed, for the past few years, ever since Kelly, 46, began making a name for herself as the person willing to call out power players on their own contradictions and contortions, she has become famous for refusing to be boxed in by anyone else’s “appropriate.”
In her book, she writes that when she went to meet thencandidate Donald Trump for the first time after their public tussle to discuss having him do an interview with her, she wore her favorite black sheath Gucci dress. “I feel strong in it,” she said.
By acknowledging the role clothes play in her own life and psyche, she is contravening one of the last taboos: If women want to be taken seriously, they are not supposed to take fashion seriously.