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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Some of these threads need a NO Fashion Alert on them!
The little blue number in bruinbirdman’s post needs a little commentary from the Fashion Police!
First, Michelle stuck an electric fork in her armpits. Then she combed her hair to resemble the Battle of the Bulge. Next she contracted with Big Chief’s Ojibwa Canoe service to build her shoes. Then Michelle walked through a rag factory to pick through remnants. Finally, she met with the CEO of a coal factory to give her a barrel of smokestack perfume.
And Presto! Here’s America’s new Jackie Kennedy. Oh, Wait. Ted is warming up the Oldsmobile.
thanks Cincinna.
The “style” is only for ghetto booties a full axe handle wide......
The contrast of this picture is stark and unambiguous.
Do you have any idea how many “relevant” “serious” threads and posts there are on FR every day.
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