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A First Lady Style Showdown? Not Exactly
The New York Times ^ | April 4, 2009 | CATHY HORYN

Posted on 04/04/2009 11:54:23 AM PDT by Cincinna

Ever since Michelle Obama departed for Europe with her husband, taking along a wardrobe of designer clothes and revealing a new hairdo, her meeting with Carla Sarkozy, the wife of the French president, had been anticipated as a fashion face-off between two stylish first ladies.

Their meeting on Friday, at the Palais Rohan in Strasbourg, France, was not quite that. Indeed, Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Sarkozy looked remarkably similar, suggesting that both women know fashion — and themselves — pretty well. Each wore a coat with a soft bow at the neck and low-heeled shoes."snip" Considering that both women have been compared to Jacqueline Kennedy, and that Mrs. Sarkozy is a pop singer and former model, people might have been surprised by the dull sobriety of Mrs. Sarkozy’s outfit. But in the year since her marriage to President Nicolas Sarkozy, the French first lady has proved to be far more refined in her look than trendy.

She chooses clothes with a relatively clean silhouette, like the Dior coat, or a black velvet Azzedine Alaïa gown she wore last week, or a navy Yves Saint Laurent dress she wore to an AIDS benefit in Paris in January. When she met Queen Elizabeth II last year, Mrs. Sarkozy was dressed top-to-toe in Dior, but in a way it was almost a costume of prim first lady elegance, and she has since toned that down and injected more, it seems, of herself."snip"

The meeting between Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Sarkozy may not have been the showdown that fashion bloggers expected, but the American first lady has received the kind of coverage typically reserved for, well, supermodels. At times it has been gushy. The Web site for L’Express in Paris ran an article titled “The Ten Commandments of Michelle Obama’s Style.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: auntesther; bho44; bhovisit; carlabrunisarkozy; fashion; flotusmichelle; france; jackieyo; mo; sarkozy
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To: Bahbah
Oh MSNBC and the other sycophantic media outlets are treating Michelle as a goddess.

It's part of that slobbering love affair with Present Obama by the lackeys of the DNC-—What we know as the MSM and owned cable stations like MSNBC.

It is truly sickening.

I will say that someone has talked to Michelle Obama about keeping her legs together.

In on clip where she was posing with others, she first stood with her feet 3’ apart, then for the still shot demurely crossed her ankles and actually looked semi-female like.

She still walks like a linebacker though.

21 posted on 04/04/2009 12:37:58 PM PDT by Syncro (Qui non intelligit, aut taceat, aut discat)
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To: Cincinna

There is only one dress I liked and it was the cranberry colored one. It almost fit her; but then she went and paired it with that coat which looked like a shower curtain and as usual ruined it. The dress was a bit to tight; but it was the first thing I have ever seen her in that resembles anything decent.

She has such poor taste; I can’t believe she actually dares to go out in public.


22 posted on 04/04/2009 12:45:11 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Cincinna

I've seen semi trucks with more poise and grace then the belle. And quite frankly, a lot nicer to look at too.

23 posted on 04/04/2009 12:50:09 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (I'd rather the world hate us then laugh at us)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

I've seen semi trucks with more poise and grace then the belle. And quite frankly, a lot nicer to look at too.

Michugly can't compete with Optimus Prime.

24 posted on 04/04/2009 12:54:55 PM PDT by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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To: SIDENET

Yep, that’s what I’m talkin bout!


25 posted on 04/04/2009 12:59:14 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (I'd rather the world hate us then laugh at us)
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To: Always Right

“Amis! Halo! You like my Carla, yes? So do I! So bad you are stuck with your Michelle-lady!”


26 posted on 04/04/2009 12:59:15 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Guns

Great googly-moogly!


27 posted on 04/04/2009 1:01:00 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Cincinna

“...her meeting with Carla Sarkozy, the wife of the French president, had been anticipated as a fashion face-off between two stylish first ladies”

I, for one, don’t believe this for a moment. No one was anticipating anything. Michelle as fashion belle is one of those Big Lies.


28 posted on 04/04/2009 1:01:08 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Cincinna

“The US Gov’t, i.e. you and I, are footing the bill for thevObamas European Grand Tour with 500 flunkies.”

As opposed to Sarah Palin’s outfits, which were paid for by private donations to the Republican party, in the worst scandal since Teapot Dome.


29 posted on 04/04/2009 1:03:48 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Syncro
In one clip where she was posing with others, she first stood with her feet 3’ apart

As a previous poster said, that's where she stores B. Hussein's basketball.


30 posted on 04/04/2009 1:12:06 PM PDT by Lizavetta (Politicians: When they're not lying, they're stealing.)
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To: Cincinna

31 posted on 04/04/2009 1:14:05 PM PDT by Snurple (VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
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To: Cincinna
The effort to suggest Michele Obama has looks anywhere near comparable to Carla Sarkozy is quite simply affirmative action gone fashion.
32 posted on 04/04/2009 1:16:32 PM PDT by merchvent (book cover)
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To: Cincinna
Michelle Obama ... revealing a new hairdo,

I failed to notice.

33 posted on 04/04/2009 1:45:07 PM PDT by razorback-bert (We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.)
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To: Snurple

ROFL!


34 posted on 04/04/2009 1:47:22 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Cincinna
I saw Michelle's outfits in my latest Lands’ End catalog.
35 posted on 04/04/2009 1:51:42 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: Snurple

Does Michelle dip snuff? What’s in her bottom lip?


36 posted on 04/04/2009 1:53:27 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: lonestar

LOL! I didn’t notice that.


37 posted on 04/04/2009 1:59:14 PM PDT by Snurple (VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
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To: Cincinna

38 posted on 04/04/2009 2:03:43 PM PDT by aphid
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To: Cincinna
"Beginning with her mid-Atlantic outfit change on Tuesday, when she stepped off Air Force One in Essex, England, in a yellow Jason Wu dress, her wardrobe has been subjected to intense media scrutiny. "





39 posted on 04/04/2009 2:05:57 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: Snurple
I didn’t notice that.

Might be time to have your eyes tested. LOL!

40 posted on 04/04/2009 2:06:32 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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