Conservative outlets are fuming at what they see as a major snub of Melania Trump from Vanity Fair’s 2017 international best-dressed list, while the magazine went ahead and placed Michelle and Barack Obama on its list of best-dressed couples.

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Melania Trump and her husband President Donald Trump were notably absent from that couple’s list. However, French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron, whom the Trumps visited in July, made the cut.

Other celebrities and international figures on the best-dressed men’s list include Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and basketball star LeBron James, while the best-dressed women’s list features singer Rihanna and Queen Letizia of Spain.

Melania, an Eastern European-born former model, should have been included because she is “one of the most fashion-forward American ladies in American history,” wrote Breitbart’s John Bindner. He praised her for often opting for the “most luxurious of fashion ensembles.”

Meanwhile, Brent Scher, over at the Washington Free Beacon, wrote “I’m literally shaking” at the idea that Melania wasn’t hailed for her “fashion tour de force” during the first couple’s nine-day tour of the Middle East and Europe in May.

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“There is nobody on Vanity Fair’s best-dressed list more deserving of the honor than the First Lady,” wrote Scher, who added that Barack Obama “dresses like a nerd.”

Of course, Melania Trump’s “fashion tour de force” in the Middle East and Europe also included her controversial choice to wear a $51,000 Dolce and Gabbana jacket to a meeting with spouses of world leaders at the G-7 summit in Italy.

Admittedly, the floral jacket was gorgeous, and Melania looked great in it. But critics noted that $51,000 is the equivalent of an average American’s household income and an amount similar to the starting salaries for teachers, police officers, other public safety workers and coal miners in some parts of the country.

Such a choice may not provide the best “optics” for a First Lady whose husband is supposed to represent all Americans, not just those who can regularly wear “head-turning” Manolo Blahniks, as the Washington Free Beacon’s Scher described some of Melania’s regular footwear.

More recently, Melania inspired an Internet meme on August 29 for wearing towering stilettos as she left the White House with the president to visit areas of Texas hit by Hurricane Harvey. Perhaps the mockery wasn’t fair, given that she had ditched the stilettos in favor of sneakers when she walked off the plane in Corpus Christi.

Still, in an article it ran on Melania’s hurricane stilettos, Vanity Fair said they were “what not to wear to a natural disaster.”

The magazine only offered a brief explanation for why it chose the Obamas for its couples list, highlighting one look Michelle pulled off while the couple were visiting Tuscany: “A white, off-the-shoulder Club Monaco top with high-wasted BCBG green linen cargo pants and sunglasses.”

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Newsweek noted that Michelle was praised through her husband’s presidency for wearing generally less expensive but still stylish clothes, often including J. Crew ensembles. One such skirt-and-cardigan ensemble she wore in 2009 to meet British Prime Minister Gordon Brown would have cost an estimated $470, the Business Insider found.

Meanwhile, former President Obama has adopted a more relaxed style since leaving office, which fashion editors have said could make him a new icon for casual male fashion, the Daily Mail reported. In March, the tall and fit 55-year-old visited Washington’s National Gallery, wearing a chocolate brown leather jacket, J Crew shirt and dark denim Levis.

President Trump, on the other hand, has come under fire for his sartorial choices, Newsweek said. There is his bright orange-like comb-over, his far-too-long ties and his choice to wear his USA Trump cap to official events. This is a choice that watchdog groups, including Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, have called “inappropriate.”

He also wore a Trump USA hat during his trips to Texas to meet with responders and survivors of Harvey’s catastrophic flooding.

“As ‪@realDonaldTrump leaves for Texas, he makes sure he’s carrying the hats he’s been advertising—yours for just $40 on his campaign website,” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics added in a tweet.

In general, Melania and Donald Trump have had a rough go of it with America’s most prominent taste-makers, mostly because Trump’s political stances and racist, sexist and demagogic rhetoric offend the sensibilities of the liberal, “cultural elite.”

Many designers declared they would not dress the first lady after Trump won the U.S. election, including Zac Posen, Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford and Humberto Leon.

But Breitbart and the Washington Free Beacon are correct in detecting a likely bias in Vanity Fair’s decision to not include at least Melania Trump in one of its best-dressed lists.

It’s no secret that Vanity Fair’s venerable but outgoing editor in chief Graydon Carter has had a long-running feud with Trump, with Carter being among the president’s harshest and longest-standing critics, going back to the 1980s when Carter edited Spy magazine.

Certainly, there is no way Carter would find a place on one of his magazine’s best-dressed lists for the man he famously labeled “a short-fingered vulgarian.”