Posted on 11/26/2016 3:59:17 PM PST by simpson96
At the Hay-Adams this fall, members of Washington’s diplomatic community gathered inside the historic hotel’s glass-walled loft, with its postcard views of the White House, for a conversation about fashion. About clothes and their place on the world stage. The program, hosted by the State Department and Elle magazine, included a panel discussion, in which I was invited to participate, that featured designer Derek Lam. When the conversation came around to first lady Michelle Obama — because how could it not? — Lam dropped his head in a mournful manner and lamented: Her departure from the East Wing signaled the end of a singular era for American fashion.
During her tenure, Obama brought widespread attention to Seventh Avenue. She energized designers, editors and stylists with her fashion-forward wardrobe choices. She made industry insiders stand taller both at home and abroad. She’s been an exemplar of modern, fit and confident middle age. She instilled pride and kinship among countless black women.
And she has been the most high-profile cheerleader for the sleeveless sheath as the 21st-century power uniform. “It’s been accepted everywhere,” says designer Maria Pinto, who created many of Obama’s 2008 campaign dresses, including the purple sheath she wore when she fist-bumped the presumptive Democratic nominee. “You don’t have to be in a suit. There’s other ways to get that power look.”
Lam is among the many Seventh Avenue designers whose clothes have been part of the first lady’s public wardrobe and whose life story has been fundamental to her version of fashion diplomacy.
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“Sleeveless dresses in the winter are the height of ridiculous...”
I got a hoot out of the summer frock she is wearing in a rainstorm with the witless President and her trying to get through a gateway with the umbrella up...neither one could figure it out.
yep it sounds like my wife and I who can spot a liberal woman so easy today. Why they have to be like that is beyond me .
Go figure - several of the designers/retailers she was vocal about patronizing have gone under.
I was taken aback when the author of this piece described michelle obama as having an “hourglass” figure!!! What are these people smoking? The sand is in some very strange places in that hourglass. The classic hourglass figure cannot be mistaken for anything else. I would describe her shape as a triangle. Her waist is not well defined enough, nor is her bust:hip ratio that of an hourglass.
Mrs. AV
Thanks! The black widow motif makes her look like a pregnant Wookie from an alien planet!
The sleeveless sheath, designed to show Mooshele’s biceps, is a fashion disaster, exposing flabby white arms of TV women everywhere. It’s bad enough in summer, but to see this unattractive look throughout winter as well is more than most viewers can stand.
Funny. :)
The Wookie was trying hard to be white
LOL
As a result I'm not at *all* reluctant to declare that Moochelle is ugly on the *inside*.
I think Martin Luther King would call that "by the content of their character".
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