Politics aside, I think it’s safe to say that Amanda Gorman was a star of the Inauguration as Poet Laureate. 22-year-old Amanda is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, and she was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. Truly incredible!
Her poem The Hill We Climb was written after witnessing the siege on the Capitol. She told The New York Times, “In my poem, I’m not going to in any way gloss over what we’ve seen over the past few weeks and, dare I say, the past few years. But what I really aspire to do in the poem is to be able to use my words to envision a way in which our country can still come together and can still heal.”
Born and raised in Los Angeles and a cum laude graduate of Harvard University, Amanda began writing at a very young age. She has won countless awards and her work has been featured in esteemed publications. She has three books forthcoming with Penguin Random House. If you have been watching, she has appeared immediately on several TV programs from Cable/Network news to Late Night Talk Shows and a watch of her Instagram account shows her popularity sky rocketing from a few hundred followers on the morning of to 1.2m that night and on to 3.3m today……she is truly a very deserving overnight success!
In terms of Amanda’s fashion for Inauguration Day, she wore a beautiful deep yellow Prada coat along with a bold red satin headband, also Prada.
She told Vogue, “I’m also wearing a yellow coat, which is my own nod to Dr. Jill Biden, who was the one who recommended me in the first place, and I’m so honored by that. She said, ‘I saw this video of you and you were wearing yellow and I loved it.'”
We absolutely loved her yellow coat because of the brightness and optimism it made us feel. You might remember in our article late last year we told you about Pantone’s 2021 colors, one of which is ‘Illuminating,’ the bold yellow color, which is very similar to the color of Amanda’s beautiful coat.
The ring she wore, in the shape of a caged bird, was a nod to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing.
We urge you to check out and click on Amanda’s website where you can read even more about her, along with her various works which you can purchase.
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