.. Agent Provocateur sales boosted by 'First Lady's $50,000 shopping spree' at lingerie boutique

UK Daily Mail ^ | January 30, 2012 | Staff

[C19fan]

British lingerie label Agent Provocateur have seen annual sales jump by more than 12 per cent in a year which also saw First Lady Michelle Obama joining their list of elite customers. Mrs Obama, is said to have spent $50,000 (£31,794) in the one shopping trip to the boutique which closed down part of Madison Avenue when she visited with the Queen of Qatar, Sheikha Mozah.

[C19fan]

It's Good to Be The Queen.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Isn’t Agent Provacateur the term Orwell gave to socialist spies during the Spanish Civil War in his excellent book Homage to Catalonia?

If so, not surprising that the First Commie would be shopping there.

[opus86]

Imagine the backlash in the press had Laura Bush done this.

[alloysteel]

Michelle Obama in lingerie.

Thanks. Now that image will stay with me all day.

[alloysteel]

Michelle Obama in lingerie.

Thanks. Now that image will stay with me all day.

[KarlInOhio]

Mrs Obama, is said to have spent $50,000 (£31,794) in the one shopping trip to the boutique

I can't remember the last time I spent $50,000 on skivvies.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

At a tent and awning shop ?

[BykrBayb]

How do you spend $50,000 on underwear? They must charge by the yard.

[ZX12R]

Michelle Obama in lingerie. Thanks. Now that image will stay with me all day.

Ditto. Michelle in lingerie conjures up images that I really didn't need this morning.

[grobdriver]

How does even a queen spend $50K on underwear?

Stocking up for the rest of her life?

[Reeses]

Michelle Obama in lingerie

They told her even if the lingerie doesn't work for her, "no returns!"

[NCC-1701]

To paraphrase Agent K in “Men in black”, “that’s one of a million images that I don’t want.”

[NCC-1701]

To paraphrase Agent K in “Men in black”, “that’s one of a million images that I don’t want.”

[Responsibility2nd]

Boob Belts are expensive.

 

 

Who knew?
 

[upchuck]

There's this article in the Daily Mail and this article in The Telegraph. Both UK newspapers. Where is the American press on this. Can anybody find any US press outlets reporting this?

The Wookie is disgusting. I realize it's her money to spend as she sees fit, but this is really in your face.

[JaguarXKE]

Never mind Laura Bush - remember how the media made such a big deal over Sarah Palin’s cloths when she was campaigning? Someone found out that the Republican Party had spent $15k for cloths for her and her family for the campaign and the media painted her as some kind of high-mainteneance deva, which she actually had nothing to do with it.

[ZX12R]

To paraphrase Agent K in “Men in black”, “that’s one of a million images that I don’t want.”

No kidding. We definitely need one of those flashy things.

[jmax]

LOL @ apillar.

But, do you suppose she bought a suicide belt with little lacy pink frillies on it?