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NY Fashion Week Coup: First Lady Laura Bush's Approval (supporting Niece Lauren on the runway)
NY Times ^ | 2.5.05 | Eric Wilson

Posted on 02/05/2005 9:47:13 AM PST by gopwinsin04

Laura Bush became the first 'first lady' to attend New York's Fashion Week yesterday, in an occasion that was greeted in some circles with the same sense of importance as when Christian Dior unveiled the 'New Look.'

Celebrities may be commonplace during the 150 designer shows that will take place in the city during Fashion Week, but it took a sitting first lady in the front row of the tents at Bryant Park to make the fashion audience pay attention.

The front row was uncommonly filled with top designers, including Tommy Hilfiger, Francesco Costa of Calvin Klein, Nicole Miller, Luca Orlandi, Esteban Cortazar, and Carmen Marc Valvo.

Only a year ago, only two designers attended a similar event. Carolina Herrera, who designed the burgandy velvet jacket that Mrs. Bush wore to the event, and Oscar de la Renta, who dressed her for the Inaugural, accompanied her to the show of red dresses for the Heart Truth, a fund raiser focusing on heart disease prevention.

That Mrs. Bush has now embraced the industry delighted the designers, who were in the harried throes of completing their own collections.

'I like fashion, it's fun.' Mrs. Bush said after the show, which included 26 dresses by 26 celebrities of varying fame , from Paula Abdul to Sarah Ferguson.

Mrs. Bush applauded each look as it passed by and told those seated near her that she need to acquire more red outfits.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
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To: LauraleeBraswell

".....she (this Democrat) could not STAND Teresa Heinz and the idea that Teresa could be a first lady."

It WAS a truly frightening thought. Four years of that loose cannon, who knew what might happen. A woman who couldn't keep her mouth shut coupled with a man who couldn't make up his mind, and who was a complete fabulist, on the level of Baron Munchaussen, as the leading couple of the free world.

Please thank your friend from me for helping to spare us that national truama.


21 posted on 02/05/2005 10:29:34 AM PST by jocon307 (Vote George Washington for the #1 spot)
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To: gopwinsin04

All I can say is WOW! And I'm a girl! What a beautiful dress, and as we say in NY, on her it looks good!


22 posted on 02/05/2005 10:32:09 AM PST by jocon307 (Vote George Washington for the #1 spot)
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To: SuziQ

"It is not saying that men should be ignored, just that women should be aware of the risks they have, as well."

Yes, really. The issue is that women overlook their own risks of heart disease precisely because they think only men are likely to be badly affected (effected? I can NEVER get that one straight) by it.

And, what the heck, any excuse to wear a red dress! Usually I hate these "campaigns", but I kind of get a kick out of this one, maybe it's only because red is my favorite color.


23 posted on 02/05/2005 10:35:29 AM PST by jocon307 (Vote George Washington for the #1 spot)
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To: jocon307
I kind of get a kick out of this one, maybe it's only because red is my favorite color.

Red is right up there with purple as my favorites.

24 posted on 02/05/2005 11:31:00 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: LauraleeBraswell

Well...if we had known in 1992 what we know now about Hildabeast Clinton...maybe more people wouldn't have voted for him because they wouldn't want Hilliary as First Lady.

It is kind of funny, though.


25 posted on 02/05/2005 11:41:24 AM PST by rlmorel
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To: gjpino

Oh cmon..she is a skank!


26 posted on 02/05/2005 11:48:38 AM PST by My Favorite Headache ("I I think she did too much coke...ahh you think so Doctor?)
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To: satchmodog9

Noelle when she is not drugged up,in a mugshot,dressed up,some makeup and a in a nice mood is pretty good looking.


27 posted on 02/05/2005 11:49:36 AM PST by My Favorite Headache ("I I think she did too much coke...ahh you think so Doctor?)
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To: SuziQ; GMMAC
I disagree, and I think GMMAC's picking up on the Orwellian use of the word "truth" in this little extravaganza was perceptive.

Feminist propaganda is not harmless. It is insidious. Yes, they've learned to "dress it up," so to speak, in attractive clothes. And to get us to say "What's the big deal if it makes women take better care of themselves?"

Well, that is not the real agenda.

Feminists have pulled many health care scams. First, they successfully labeled abortion as a "women's health" issue (and I guess it is if we're talking about half the babies who are aborted).

Then, feminists shrieked and screamed (falsely) that men were for years the only beneficiaries of government funded research, and that women have been discriminated against. Result: Money is taken away from important research and thrown at scientifically flimsy, but politically popular projects (e.g., the discredited breast cancer "clusters" on Long Island).

But when it comes to certain threats against women's health exclusively, e.g. the possibility that abortion causes breast cancer - oh, no!

Not only dare we not fund THAT, but we're also not even allowed to even warn women that it might be something to consider before having an abortion.

SO much for helping women learn to take better care of themselves.

28 posted on 02/05/2005 11:54:47 AM PST by shhrubbery!
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To: maggiefluffs

What a lovely picture! She has a lovely, healthy figure - hope that's a new trend.


29 posted on 02/05/2005 12:22:53 PM PST by Lil'freeper (Error 404. The requested file was not found.)
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To: shhrubbery!; SuziQ; CareyRoberts
The politicization of health care and related research is the real issue.

Surely, if the government is going to be involved, conservatives believe that whatever public monies are spent must directly correspond to legitimate need.
Unfortunately, more and more it's the squeaky - and usually politically correct - wheel which gets the attention and the resulting taxpayer funding.
Women should be rightly up in arms that, relative to the number of deaths attributable to each, AIDS related research currently receives 4 to 5 times the dollars allotted to breast cancer. Worse still, prostate cancer research, on this same comparative basis, receives mere peanuts.
30 posted on 02/05/2005 2:28:10 PM PST by GMMAC (lots of terror cells in Canada - I'll be waving my US flag when the Marines arrive!)
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To: gopwinsin04

I believe she's a vegetarian and grows her own food. I also know a girl who's a vegetarian and is 40 years old....but looks around 30. I guess there is something to be said about it...although I couldn't do it.....


31 posted on 02/05/2005 3:58:53 PM PST by zoobee (http://www.dslextreme.com/users/exstatica/psychic.swf)
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To: gopwinsin04

The front row was uncommonly filled with top designers, including Tommy Hilfiger, Francesco Costa of Calvin Klein, Nicole Miller, Luca Orlandi, Esteban Cortazar...

I'd like to see Lauren Bush in one of Esteban Cortazar's creations next. Cortazar is the youngest designer ever to be nominated for the world's top designer award - he just graduated from high school.


32 posted on 02/05/2005 4:35:50 PM PST by debg
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To: zoobee

Christie is 51 and looks about 30..


33 posted on 02/05/2005 4:45:56 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: zoobee
I also know a girl who's a vegetarian and is 40 years old....but looks around 30.

There's a theory going around that says if you eat vegetarian for 30 years, it'll feel like 40.

34 posted on 02/05/2005 4:48:12 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: shhrubbery!
but we're also not even allowed to even warn women that it might be something to consider before having an abortion.

Who says you can't warn women about the dangers of the connection between breast cancer and abortion? You'll have to pay for your own 'soapbox', but there's nothing wrong with that. Just make sure when you do, you have your science duckies all in a row because you'll be eviscerated by the press and everyone else. The danger comes when having had an abortion with your very first pregnancy. I don't believe the link is there with abortions after the first full term pregnancy. But since the abortion before full term pregnancy involves almost every woman who has had an abortion, it's very relevant.

No, it's not fair that women don't have these warnings because feminists and liberals in the media don't want to do anything that will weaken their vaunted 'right to choose', but we can do all we can outside their purview to make the facts known to as many women as possible.

35 posted on 02/05/2005 5:35:48 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ
Just make sure when you do, you have your science duckies all in a row because you'll be eviscerated by the press and everyone else.

That's what I mean. The feminist-dominated media make it a catch-22 for anyone to speak up about the abortion/breast cancer link.

To get those science duckies in a row, we'd (a) have to do more large-scale research projects.

But (b), feminist pressure groups entrenched in the federal bureacracy keep public funding from going to research the topic.

But if we managed to come up with big $$$ to fund research privately, whatever positive findings we might come up with would (c) be attacked by the feminist-dominated media as "biased" -- precisely since it wasn't done with public research money.

This tactic was used against John Lott's research on gun control. Since the Olin Foundation sponsored him, that made his research illegitimate in the eyes of the main stream media. (Never mind that research generated by Sarah Brady's private group is always deemed credible. Or does she get public money too?)

36 posted on 02/07/2005 7:10:20 AM PST by shhrubbery!
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To: gopwinsin04

Lovely photo. Who is the white-haired woman next to Laura?


37 posted on 02/08/2005 5:48:19 AM PST by katieanna (I Go to Prepare a Place for You. Jesus)
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To: gopwinsin04

Christi Brinkley does look good. She had a baby at 45 too. Isn't that something? Must be good eating and good living.


38 posted on 02/08/2005 5:50:26 AM PST by katieanna (I Go to Prepare a Place for You. Jesus)
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To: Lil'freeper

Big butts are coming back into style... not as in fat, but well-rounded butts like the Lauren Bush. Even though I sadly have no butt, I applaud it and hope this is a sign that we're finally breaking the gay stranglehold on fashion.


39 posted on 02/08/2005 5:54:39 AM PST by Nataku X (Food for Thought: http://web2.airmail.net/scsr/)
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To: zoobee

Being a vegetarian and having a face lift are the 2 key ingredients to Ms. Brinkley's youthful looks.


40 posted on 02/08/2005 5:57:01 AM PST by CaptainK
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