A few minutes after the ball dropped in Times Square, signaling the beginning of 2026, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as the new mayor of New York City in an abandoned subway station near City Hall. For the intimate ceremony, which included a smattering of reporters and his close family members, the mayor chose a black velvet suit with a long, slim-fitting jacket, worn with a white shirt and a herringbone tie delicately embroidered with four, four-petal flowers.
His wife, the artist Rama Duwaji, also made a statement in her matching asymmetrical, funnel-neck wool coat, below-the-knee black skirt, and pointy-toed boots with a lace-up detail at the back (possibly from Miista, proving the first lady’s Gen Z fashion bona fides). Duwaji has already shown a love for bold gold jewelry, and the midnight ceremony proved a perfect occasion for it. Duwaji accessorized her black separates with sculptural earrings and a wristful of gold bracelets.