Posted on 05/02/2009 12:56:15 PM PDT by Schnucki
It's a first lady faux pas -- wearing expensive, high-fashion French designer sneakers to a food bank.
Michelle Obama wore the sneakers, made by Lanvin, while helping feed the poor at a Washington food bank on Wednesday. The pricetag on the footwear? A cool $540.
Keds, they're not.
The sneakers, which come in denim and satin, are a favorite of comic Ellen DeGeneres and rapper Kanye West -- and they're "certainly not a reflection of the poor economy," said FOX News' Noelle Watters, host of iMag Style.
"She paired the kicks with a much more reasonably priced cardigan from J. Crew similar to the one she's worn in the past," Watters said. "And quite honestly, the usually well-styled Michelle didn't match. While her over-priced designer sneaks were gray and pink, her sweater was a gold argyle style. A definite fashion faux pas."
According to the New York Daily News, the first lady of style likely got her sneakers through Ikram, the Chicago retailer that usually outfits her.
Obama's style helped catapult her into the 93rd spot of Maxim's "eyeball-searing, fantasy-fulfilling, brain-exploding" Hot 100 list, which was announced Friday.
The first lady's sense of fashion has received considerable media attention. During her trip to Europe last month to accompany President Obama to the G20 summit, her fashion choices and protocol-breaking touch of the Queen of England nearly received as much ink as the summit itself.
The White House did not return a message seeking comment.
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The wives of communists leaders love high fashion
I am going to guess she didn’t pay for them and that the gay designer gave her a matching strap on to use on Barry
Strange how there aren’t quotes around the word ‘Designer’.
Hey, Duvalier’s wife did it, Marco’s wife did it, and Missus Mugabe is doing it now...what else are you supposed to do when you’re the wife of a wannabe Third World Dictator?
Let Them Eat Shoes, said the Queen
In the case of Michelle, it’s like one fat toad wearing designer shoes. Just because she was named “most beautiful” by blind editors at People mag, and suddenly she believes it.
Quite frankly, so what? Expecting the well-off to dress down when performing charitable works is buying into the egalitarian claptrap the underlies her husbands fatally flawed socialist/fascist economic policies.
Feeding the poor, even lending a hand in feeding the poor, is a praiseworthy deed. Let’s stick to ripping Obama for real problems with his behavior and policies, shall we.
On the South Side of Chicago, the locals refer to such displays as, “Ghetto Fabulous”.
Retail profits will not look good next quarter....
Communist party members decide who the beautiful people are.
Geithner and Emmanuel top 100? they would look fine in gestapo uniforms.
Stein Mart had an advertisement mentioning the brown clown’s wife as if it was supposed to entice us to shop there. They quickly pulled the ad after being inundated with complaints. Too late for me though. I now KNOW that the owner of Stein Mart is a leftist and any profits derived from my purchases might go to electing more leftists.
So no more Stein Mart for me, thank you very much.
Oh, and same for Ikea and Starbucks.
Can someone just tell her “hey, Michelle, if you paid $540 for those shoes, you got ripped off. Because not only don’t they look good, they simply don’t look good on you, girl, because with cankles like you have, you need the hightops”.
540 bucks or not i’m positive that they looked hideous on her.
the woman has the fashion sense of an 85 year old blind pakastani woman.
Did she pay for 'em? Get a First Lady discount? Or a freebie? Aside from being incredibly tacky and insensitive, the O's just might be violating ethics rules.
Imelda Marcos comes to mind.
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