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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Robin got some butt-ugly glasses.
Hideous!
It’s their Braille edition.
You can dress a sow in a tutu but that doesn’t make her a ballerina.
Or the least, depending upon how you look at it.
I think it all started with the decay of the women's movement. It began with the burning of the bras, the unshaved legs and arm pits, and general decline in overall feminine hygiene. Fashion sense followed suit.
Why are they trying so hard to make her a fashion icon? Most of the clothes are hideous.
Zero is in a suit, and his family looks dreadful. It’s like the opposite of my family, where I look tidy and dignified, while everyone else looks like derelicts.
This may be the first time I felt sorry for Barack Obama. He has no more ability to keep his family members from looking like idiots than I do.
Typical “progressive”. Obsessed with image. Thinks reality does not matter.
The expression on his face almost seems to say “What in —— are you all wearing?”
yet for 8 years the media keeps telling us how stylish, classy, and beautiful she is. Now we have a real, and I mean a real beautiful , stylish , classy woman, and the same media make fun of her, and attack her.
Pizza the Hut
Then it’s their lucky day!
He seems to be trying to set a good example, but it goes nowhere. I am so there.
She’s more masculine than he is.
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