Incoming US first lady has high heels to fill, but few designers will help

New York

SHE may be tall, slim and a former model, but incoming first lady Melania Trump faces a new kind of fashion police - designers refusing to dress her because of her husband's politics.

She has posed nude for GQ, modelled in Paris and graced the cover of Vogue, yet what Melania wears to the inaugural balls on Friday night could be the most important sartorial decision of her life.

"It's hard to find a great dress for this inauguration," Mr Donald Trump told The New York Times, trying to present the event as a society sell-out, though whether that is true remains to be seen.

From Mamie Eisenhower's pink peau de soie gown to Mrs Michelle Obama's white Jason Wu confection in 2009, in…