Melania Trump: How the First Lady lets her fashion do the talking

One of Melania's favourite subjects is New York's Central Park, but strikingly, it is only ever photographed from Trump Tower or the window of a moving car. Imbach suggests it is possible the 46-year-old has never actually walked in the park.

She also posted 74 photographs taken from her home in the penthouse suite of Trump Tower in New York City, all snapped from practically the exact same place and appearing to chart the changing seasons.

"There is a striking passivity to the Trump Tower view photographs", Imbach says. "She never changed the composition of these landscapes, she placed no personal mark on them. The time of day changes, she takes a photo, that’s it.

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"There is a calmness, a kind of safety, to this approach," she adds. "The earth moves around the sun but the photographer is stable, in the exact same position, day after day."

It is also notable that Melania is looking down from the tower on the people below, "like a queen", Imbach says.

Imbach also thinks the images Melania takes of herself are interesting, saying the First Lady rarely posts pictures of her face but when she does, she adjusts the lighting balance so the details are largely obscured. In those pictures where she doesn't do this, her face is obscured by a hat or sunglasses. She also often crops out her head altogether so she is just legs or breasts.

"She hides, in other words, even when she is presenting herself," Imbach says.

Imbach concludes that Melania is "living inside a dark fairytale, and in fairytales the women trapped in towers never save anyone but themselves".