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"  Photo: Getty Images When Bill de Blasio was sworn in as New York City&amp;#039;s 109th mayor yesterday, his wife Chirlane and daughter Chiara both wore designs by Nanette Lepore.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m really excited because they are the coolest first family on the planet, don&amp;#039;t you think?&amp;quot; Lepore enthused over the phone earlier today. We do think. Chirlane McCray is everything we look for in a role model: She&amp;#039;s smart (an activist and political strategist), she&amp;#039;s a mother, she&amp;#039;s fluid about her sexuality (she dated women before marrying de Blasio), and she&amp;#039;s a feminist. Her daughter is turning out to be a budding role model as well: She&amp;#039;s got a strong sense of personal style (how &amp;#039;bout them flower crowns?) and the video she made about her struggles with depression and drug abuse is refreshingly honest and inspiring (never mind that it was also a sage pre-emptive political move). Related: Chirlane McCray is a New Kind of First Lady Lepore told us she got the call from the de Blasio camp to pull options for Chirlane and Chiara just two weeks before the inauguration. &amp;quot;It was really late in the game, I was surprised they didn&amp;#039;t have their outfits already,&amp;quot; Lepore said. Chiara loved the leopard coat Lepore sent over so much she wore it on New Year&amp;#039;s Eve as well. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m happy she has something in her wardrobe she wants to wear over and over,&amp;quot; Lepore said. Related: How to Pull of Chiara&amp;#039;s Flower Crown &amp;#039;Do What&amp;#039;s more, the fact that Lepore dressed the de Blasio/McCray clan probably bodes well for the future of the fashion industry. Lepore is one of the most vocal advocates for saving the city&amp;#039;s Garment Center. Since 2009 she&amp;#039;s sponsored an annual rally to raise awareness for the non-profit Save the Garment Center. She&amp;#039;s even lobbied Congress to support the creation of a Fashion Caucus and further raise awareness about the plight of New York&amp;#039;s fashion industry. So if the McCray/de Blasio women are wearing Nanette Lepore, it means Lepore has faith that de Blasio will support the Garment Center. In fact, Lepore told us that de Blasio came to meet with Lepore for an hour to hear her concerns and tour some factories early on in his campaign. &amp;quot;He was completely on board in whichever ways he could be helping us in working towards saving the manufacturing industry in NYC,&amp;quot; Lepore said. Chirlane herself is an active supporter of the local industry, famously wearing NYC-based designer Anni Kuan (who she discovered at Otto, a Brooklyn boutique) on many of her campaign stops over the last decade. Seems like the de Blasio family is off to a good start where fashion is concerned. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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