Ella Emhoff Stole the Show on Inauguration Day

Vice President Kamala Harris' Jewish stepdaughter is our new national style icon.

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A few days after this article ran, we learned Ella Emhoff does not identify as Jewish. We’re sorry for this error, and you can read more here.

Ella Emhoff is Vice President Kamala Harris’s stepdaughter and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff’s daughter. She and her brother Cole refer to Kamala as “Momala.” And she simply stole the show at President Joe Biden’s Inauguration on January 20, 2021 (along with Bernie Sanders’s mittens, of course).

Ella, 22, is an art student in New York who lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn and likes to make cool knit designs. Being in a room with the extended Harris-Emhoff clan, Ella has said, “It’s like you get the most confident, strong personality people, a lot of them being women, and it’s like you’re layering all of them on top of each other and it becomes everyone trying to talk over each other. So it’s a lot of really enthusiastic yelling.” (Adopt us, please!)

On Inauguration day, Ella stood proudly with her family while wearing an embellished Miu Miu coat with her curls looking pristine and suddenly, the internet joined us in our newfound Ella Emhoff obsession. Here’s what everybody’s saying about our new favorite Jewish style icon/human being:

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1. *chants* Ella. Emhoff. 

https://twitter.com/benkesslen/status/1351921657619894272

2. L’dor v’dor, baby!

3. We have to!!!

https://twitter.com/gabebergado/status/1351922936513503240

4. Genuinely this energy: 

https://twitter.com/StassaEdwards/status/1351921865783205888

5. Ella’s Curls 2021.

6. Cow tattoo at inauguration, omfg: 

https://twitter.com/ajshults/status/1351941075276079104

7. Amen.

https://twitter.com/josephlongo_/status/1351928207264653316

8. Simply everything.

9. Blah blah new president, let’s talk about Ella’s coat.

https://twitter.com/EmmaSaltzberg/status/1351927670108512258

10. I pledge allegiance, to the coat, of the second daughter of America…

https://twitter.com/blairnecessity/status/1351935229238390786

11. Did she cast a spell on Mike Pence? Please tell me she cast a spell on Mike Pence.

https://twitter.com/sloppymenace/status/1351924190845292544?s=20

12. I mean, this eyebrow wiggle!

13. Jewish geography, let’s go! 

14. In this house we idolize Ella Emhoff.

15. The. Moment.

https://twitter.com/suwanneeladykt/status/1351925694306115585?s=20

16. Let’s also acknowledge her Thom Browne outfit from the previous night:

https://twitter.com/toloczko/status/1351935486399565828?s=20

17. We genuinely don’t know what has brought us more joy today: the mittens or the coat!?

https://twitter.com/LouStoppard/status/1351939844419825665?s=20

18. Please.

19. Can you imagine…

https://twitter.com/nkulw/status/1351938493828755460?s=20

20. Ella Emhoff will you be our friend?

21. Cannot wait for this era!!

https://twitter.com/extrordanaire/status/1351942694327758848?s=20

22. Stole the show, tbh.

https://twitter.com/sussedandsorted/status/1351943133249024002?s=20

23. Let’s end with this: 

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