Commander in Chic?
Posted on 12/07/2011 6:21:02 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
A fashion and beauty maven says women should look to the first lady for inspiration on how to stock their own closets with style.
Mikki Taylor, the editor at large for Essence magazine, even bestows a new title on Michelle Obama in her new book, Commander in Chic: Every Woman’s Guide to Managing her Style Like a First Lady.
Taylor, who first became attracted to Obama’s fashion sense while working with her on a 2006 magazine story, says that unlike other presidents’ wives, “Michelle Obama effectively dresses for Michelle Obama. She dresses to delight herself. She’s not so influenced by the trends.”
Even when that means rebelling against one of the most blatant fashion faux pas around: wearing the same outfit again and again. Obama, 47, has been known to rock the same frock twice (or sometimes three times). She donned the same Thakoon floral dress at an October event that she had worn two times before in 2009.
But Taylor calls it making a “repeat performance,” and says, “You’ve never seen that before, and you really don’t see it from women in the public eye. A great dress is a great dress. A great look is a great look. Why not wear it again?”
And the author, who has worked with countless models and celebs, has some tricks of the trade that she’s picked up from studying the first lady’s style to help Washington women become their own Capitol Hill fashionistas.
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LOLOLOL!
You know what I find to be the most attractive part of Michelle?
Her shin nodules!
MMMM MMMM MMMM!
LOL...when Mario Batali looks better, with his orange chef’s clogs on, you know you are at the bottom of the fashion ladder.
I have to say that I like this outfit, BUT.................it is appropriate for a young girl, teens or early twenties. It is not appropriate for a middle aged woman.
I am now middle aged and yes, sadly, there are definitely things we can no longer wear. We live in a college town & on football weekends the amount of women trying to dress like their daughters is really out of control.
And if you are the first lady you DO owe it to your country to dress in a ladylike manner. It’s part of the job. That’s part of the charm of getting older; you can be elegant. Trendiness is for the young, NOT for older women.
...or good taste, or common sense, or mirrors, or...
You forgot “BARF ALERT”.
WOOF! Ugly! NASTY!
Hah that picture always cracks me up. She looks like the frog en housemaid showing them the way up and into the building.
Your post #6 illustrates what I’ve always thought:
She’s commander in chic alright - for people of Wal-Mart.
The comments after the article at the site are a hoot! LMAO
You can just feel her growing out of that getup like a gangly, awkward teen in hand-me-downs that are two sizes too small.
Wonder if the fake flower squirts water? Looks like it would.
Commander in Chic?
Worst Lady
Holy crap she is vile. Just an embarrassment to our country. LOOK AT THAT PHOTO!!!!
Mikki looks like a Mikey.
You know what’s funny about this picture? The hands of the two on the left are elegantly curved inward. The other one looks like she’s carrying invisible luggage.
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