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 ...
".....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.
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!
"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.
Red is right up there with purple as my favorites.
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.
Oh cmon..she is a skank!
Noelle when she is not drugged up,in a mugshot,dressed up,some makeup and a in a nice mood is pretty good looking.
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.
What a lovely picture! She has a lovely, healthy figure - hope that's a new trend.
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.....
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.
Christie is 51 and looks about 30..
There's a theory going around that says if you eat vegetarian for 30 years, it'll feel like 40.
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.
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?)
Lovely photo. Who is the white-haired woman next to Laura?
Christi Brinkley does look good. She had a baby at 45 too. Isn't that something? Must be good eating and good living.
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.
Being a vegetarian and having a face lift are the 2 key ingredients to Ms. Brinkley's youthful looks.
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