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“Now, I’m free to do whatever”: Michelle Obama explains her $3,900 Balenciaga boots (hurl alert)
Vox ^
| 12/20/2018
| Nara Nittle
Posted on 12/26/2018 12:32:13 PM PST by 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 Brooklyns Barclays Center Wednesday night for a discussion with Parker.
While the Sex and the City star was clad in a holiday-appropriate sequin dress, Obamas 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 dont 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.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: bitchbitchbitch; bitchnmoan; fashiongaffes; obamafashionforward
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To: jospehm20
Do they charge more to provide space for his...uhmm...package?
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posted on
12/26/2018 12:59:25 PM PST
by
moovova
To: ETL
9.95...................
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posted on
12/26/2018 12:59:32 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: simpson96
Heh, just as with her husband, she’s never had a real job. Ever.
But somehow they are multimillionaires.
Wonder how that happened?
To: Yo-Yo
Hermaphrodite narciscist and no-talent horse-face needing a feedbag. Sweet!
44
posted on
12/26/2018 1:00:00 PM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: Da Coyote
Liars and criminals gots their ways...
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posted on
12/26/2018 1:01:10 PM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: jospehm20; raygunfan; Gamecock; Larry Lucido; KC_Lion; FredZarguna; PROCON
[I am surprised that they make them in mens sizes.]
She's out there, Jerry! And she's loving every minute of it! /Seinfeld reference
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posted on
12/26/2018 1:03:07 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: ETL
To: Brian Griffin
“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.
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posted on
12/26/2018 1:07:37 PM PST
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: simpson96
She probably sings the theme to The Jeffersons every night.
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posted on
12/26/2018 1:07:37 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: ETL
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.
To: ETL; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal; null and void; Travis McGee; Diogenesis
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)
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posted on
12/26/2018 1:09:48 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: 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. My first thought, fugly
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posted on
12/26/2018 1:10:09 PM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: simpson96
Liberals think “freedom” is an exemption from consequences or responsibility.
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posted on
12/26/2018 1:15:51 PM PST
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: SaveFerris
I posted that picture on my FB timeline and both times FB gave me a warning and took it down.
ROFL!
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posted on
12/26/2018 1:32:33 PM PST
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: simpson96
Free not to wear that crotch restraint all the time when in public view, Mike?
To: Dr. Ursus
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posted on
12/26/2018 1:34:05 PM PST
by
laplata
(The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: simpson96
Dear Lenin !
Here goes my appetite for sea food.
Have to rinse my eyes with Linda Carter poster for awhile ...
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posted on
12/26/2018 1:35:01 PM PST
by
trotskylvalia
(where nose meets the grindstone)
To: DCPatriot
That has to be the worst pic of Mooch ever.
But, it’s all too real.
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posted on
12/26/2018 1:35:02 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: simpson96
Blatant racism against Melania. This little commie midget brained fool writer has no room to comment on anybodys clothing choices much less Melanias.
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posted on
12/26/2018 1:35:55 PM PST
by
albie
To: SaveFerris
As if there are “good” pics of it.
Bet camera lens cracks every time.
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posted on
12/26/2018 1:38:23 PM PST
by
trotskylvalia
(where nose meets the grindstone)
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