Big hat, huge ambitions Everything we learned about the first lady

She has no friends but everyone who works for her dresses like her Melania's appears an entirely airless existence, in which she glides solo about gilt corridors in absolute silence, observed by tight-lipped heavies.

- Catherine Shoard

1 All her staff dress in deference to her, mostly in black, but sometimes - as in the case of her interior designer - in a matching camel-coloured threepiece suit. Candidates interviewing for assistant roles have also got the memo, lining up in a sea of monochrome with buttery hair.

2 She hates anything baggy About 30% of the film is devoted to high-stakes clothes fittings for her inauguration outfits. "My creative vision is always clear and it's my responsibility to share it with my team so they can bring it to life," Melania explains in voiceover. "More tension, tighter," she commands. A coat needs to skim nearer her hips. A hat brim is reprimanded as "a little bit wigglywoggly". "I don't know if we can cut it," frets one tailor about a blouse, to a soundtrack of stressed violins.

3 She's uninterested in catering While we learn that Melania is apparently in charge of everything about the inaugurationadjacent shindigs, we learn nothing of the menu save for the fact that the appetiser at one ball will be a golden egg, placed in an eggcup, on a plate.

The first lady has no notes about this - what has laid it, whether it's actually edible, if something alongside it might be nice - other than approval of its colour. She never eats or drinks.