Optics of inauguration were serene, respectful and quietly joyous, with US designers centre stage
• Joe Biden’s inauguration – live updates
There were a number of concerns about what might happen at the 59th presidential inauguration, but what Joe Biden would wear was never one of them.
With reassuring predictability, he was sworn in as the 46th US president wearing a navy blue, single-breasted suit by that most wholesomely all-American of designers, Ralph Lauren.
