“Now, I’m free to do whatever”: Michelle Obama explains her $3,900 Balenciaga boots (hurl alert)

Vox ^ | 12/20/2018 | Nara Nittle

[simpson96]

In one appearance, Michelle Obama did for Balenciaga boots what it took a hit TV show for Sarah Jessica Parker to do for Manolo Blahniks. During the most recent stop on the book tour for her bestselling memoir Becoming, the former first lady dropped by Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Wednesday night for a discussion with Parker.

While the Sex and the City star was clad in a holiday-appropriate sequin dress, Obama’s sparkly $3,900 Balenciaga boots got all the attention. In fact, by Thursday afternoon, the boots were trending on Twitter and were nearly sold out on the Balenciaga website.

As a two-term first lady, Michelle Obama was without a doubt a style influencer. The clothes she wore routinely sold out, whether they cost thousands of dollars or fewer than a hundred.

Her successor, Melania Trump, a former model, has repeatedly made headlines for fashion gaffes — such as wearing stilettos on her way to hurricane-ravaged Texas, an “I don’t really care. Do U?” jacket on a trip to see detained migrant children, or a colonizer-style ensemble to a trip to Kenya. But Michelle Obama stood out by embracing young designers and championing retailers that middle-class families could afford to wear, like J. Crew, the Gap, and Target. Obama, after all, served as first-lady as the nation rebounded from an economic recession.

[moovova]

Do they charge more to provide space for his...uhmm...package?

[Red Badger]

9.95...................

[Da Coyote]

Heh, just as with her husband, she’s never had a real job. Ever.
But somehow they are multimillionaires.
Wonder how that happened?

[hal ogen]

Hermaphrodite narciscist and no-talent horse-face needing a feedbag. Sweet!

[hal ogen]

Liars and criminals gots their ways...

[SaveFerris]

[I am surprised that they make them in men’s sizes.]

She's out there, Jerry! And she's loving every minute of it! /Seinfeld reference

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

Wookiee Chic Ping

[Bonemaker]

“But Michelle Obama stood out by embracing young designers and championing retailers that middle-class families could afford to wear, like J. Crew, the Gap, and Target.”

FLATUS would be out of her class with Kmart or Dollar Store clothes.

[TomGuy]

She probably sings the theme to The Jeffersons every night.

[Lizavetta]

I don't care if I saw those boots on Melania, Feinstein or the Queen of England.

The first words that come to mind are pimp and ghetto.

[SaveFerris]

You know, when a behemoth wears a bright-yellow, ill-fitting shower curtain, also wearing what looks like Target-bought plastic prostitute hip waders, and people call it "fashion" and "beautiful" then you know we truly have crossed into the Twilight Zone.

(A bucket of cold water thrown on the delusional liberals out there)

[1Old Pro]

I don't care if I saw those boots on Melania, Feinstein or the Queen of England. The first words that come to mind are pimp and ghetto.

My first thought, fugly

[G Larry]

Liberals think “freedom” is an exemption from consequences or responsibility.

[DCPatriot]

I posted that picture on my FB timeline and both times FB gave me a warning and took it down.

ROFL!

[doorgunner69]

Free not to wear that crotch restraint all the time when in public view, Mike?

[laplata]

Ghetto hooker.

[trotskylvalia]

Dear Lenin !

Here goes my appetite for sea food.

Have to rinse my eyes with Linda Carter poster for awhile ...

[SaveFerris]

That has to be the worst pic of Mooch ever.

But, it’s all too real.

[albie]

Blatant racism against Melania. This little commie midget brained fool “writer” has no room to comment on anybody’s clothing choices much less Melanias.

[trotskylvalia]

As if there are “good” pics of it.

Bet camera lens cracks every time.