L.A. Mayor Karen Bass suited up in Sergio Hudson for her inauguration on Sunday.

Mayor Karen The primary female mayor of Los Angeles, Bass was sworn in by the primary female U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, who introduced her as “Madame Mayor.”

The ceremony featured gospel duo Mary Mary, singer Chloe Bailey and poet Amanda Gorman, in addition to Stevie Wonder, who performed “Keep Our Love Alive” and “Living for the City.”

For the occasion, Bass wore Hudson’s brilliant blue one-button blazer and skirt suit.

It was just the most recent in a protracted line of power-dressing moves by the L.A. designer, who burst onto the national scene when former First Lady Michelle Obama wore his burgundy pantsuit to the inauguration of President Joe Biden in 2021. Hudson also dressed Harris in a black sequined cocktail dress and tuxedo overcoat for the inaugural ball.

Hudson said Bass already owned the pantsuit, and requested a skirt to wear to the event.

“I bumped into someone who works for her recently while I used to be holiday shopping. We exchanged numbers and he or she reached out and said Karen desires to wear the suit, but she desires to wear a skirt,” Hudson said. “So I had my people in Latest York undergo archives, we found the material and we made the skirt. My assistant flew it within the day before she wore it. It was a proud moment for me and my team.”

The wool gabardine suit was from a 2021 collection. “She’s a Democrat so after all she desired to wear blue, but this was brighter, more tropical, to represent Southern California,” said Hudson. “L.A. has been superb to me, so I loved having the ability to do something to represent L.A.”

While many political women have chosen power pantsuits in recent times, Harris selected a skirt suit.

“It’s a pencil skirt however it’s not as tight,” said Hudson. “At this point we have now a number of experience making things for girls in office, not only former first ladies, but women in power. They don’t want their clothes to be the primary a part of the conversation but they’re women and so they like fashion, so you might have to offer them a bit of something,” he said.

Asked why his brand appeals to female power players, he said, “It’s the stance we’ve taken on being an American sportswear brand and changing what that appears like. When people see my clothes, it represents a latest generation of what’s here but in addition something they’re acquainted with. That’s why we’ve develop into a go-to.”

Bass defeated L.A. businessman and shopping center magnate Rick Caruso in an election during which Caruso spent $100 million of his own funds.

On the inauguration, she described an “inflection point” within the history of a city hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic, a high cost of living, climate change and the homelessness crisis. But, she added, “L.A. magic continues to be here.”