Posted on 10/19/2016 6:35:14 AM PDT by simpson96
On Tuesday night, at her final state dinner as first lady, Michelle Obama solidified her legacy as perhaps the most adept and successful practitioner of the art of political dressing that any administration has seen.
Her choice of an Atelier Versace gown for the Italy state dinner was not only a nice bit of sartorial diplomacy — Versace being an Italian success story, a company often touted as a candidate for a public offering — but, coming less than a week after her magnetic speech in New Hampshire on women and respect, it went far beyond being simply an ambassadorial nod to a guest country’s talent and made a powerful subliminal statement.
The dress, after all, was made of rose gold … chain mail. As much as it was gracefully cut and draped, it also spoke of armor and female strength, of the need to gird yourself to fight for what you believe in. And it was designed by Donatella Versace, a woman who was famously thrust into one of the most difficult situations of all: having to take over and preserve the company founded by her brother after his murder in Miami. And who, despite a fair number of doubts, has ultimately triumphed — in part by transforming the aesthetic of her company from one built on the power of sex to one built on the power of self. (snip)
Especially because Ms. Versace then said, ”I am humbled and honored to have the opportunity to dress the first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. Thank you Michelle for all the things you did for America and for the rest of the world, for the women in the U.S. and the rest of the world.”
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Instead of taking kick-boxing classes, a few attempts at ballet might have taught her how to hold her arms in a feminine fashion while being photographed.
Has Rachel Ray taken to drink? She always looks puffy and fat lately. She was never a sylph but lately...how.
Final State Dinner
Its the final one so yippie! :)
Goodbye! And don’t let the door hit your flugly ‘lipstick on a pig’ American hating Marxist ass on the way out the door.
And thank your husband for the massive debt, ISIS, and stirring up racial tentions and crapping on the USC and so much more.
Anyone else recall the tsunami of excrement the enemedia gave Nancy Reagan over her wardrobe...?
good grief... it’s like a wookie wrapped in pinkish saran wrap
“Michelle Obama solidified her legacy as perhaps the most adept and successful practitioner of the art of political dressing that any administration has seen.”
Clap (slow) , clap (fast) , clap(faster), clap(really, really fast), stand, now bow down to the god of political correctness and lauding mediocrity.
Effusive praise is the hallmark of an abjectly submissive subordinate toady. The NYT, as a subsidiary of the Democrat party and the liberal mindset, almost steps all over their adjectives as they try to outdo themselves in making flattering and largely dishonest remarks about the spouse of the Current Occupant.
Still looks like a substitute linebacker for the Chicago Bears.
"Because consider this: If all of this is painful to us as grown women, what do you think this is doing to our children? What message are our little girls hearing about who they should look like, how they should act? What lessons are they learning about their value as professionals, as human beings, about their dreams and aspirations? And how is this affecting men and boys in this country? Because I can tell you that the men in my life do not talk about women like this. And I know that my family is not unusual."
Of course she considers Beyonce a great role model for her daughters, and her husband likes Kanye West's music, and he and his wife have been invited to the White House. Kayne West publicly describes sexual acts with women in crude, racist terms. So actually, some of the men in Mrs. Obama's life talk about women, in public, in terms far cruder than anything Donald Trump has ever said.
Do we taxpayers not pay for the very best WH chefs? Why does she always have to bring in that pompus orange clog wearing Mario Batali? That's another slap at the tax payer$$$$$.
She/He looks like a hoss and fugly as usual!
Could be the result of her “open” marriage. She went downhill fast after they were married.
‘The press has been licking the butts of DEMOCRAT First Ladies since forever’
There, fixed it.
Her linebacker stance won't be missed, either.
“Thank you Michelle for all the things you didn't do for America and for the rest of our children who are starving at school because of your cardboard lunch program"
"There....now it's correct"
OMG! Never saw that one before. An amazon without a rain forest.
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