Posted on 07/09/2009 7:49:28 AM PDT by NMEwithin
Is First Lady Michelle Obama sporting a taste for ultra-expensive fashion pieces, or is she cementing her status as a savvy shopper? Back in April she wore a pair of $540 Lanvin sneakers at a Washington food bank. Earlier this week (while strolling the wooded landscape outside of Moscow), she carried a sexy black clutch, which Italian luxury house VBH boasts is their shiny black alligator manila bag – with a retail sticker price of $5,950. The White House flatly denies that Obama bought such a high-priced accessory, and says that she was carrying a patent clutch that retails for $875. The First Lady, who has impressed with her chic, affordable style sense, embracing Everywoman brands like Gap and J.Crew, flashed the shiny handheld while walking with her husband, President Barack Obama, during their Monday meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana. Told that Obama's office denied the bag was the high-end VBH clutch, Kelly Vitko, a rep for the company replied, "It’s definitely ours."
Photoshopped the pic. Under magnification, although rather pixelated it definitly dosen’t look like patent leather and has the look of some sort of gator hide.
Not to mention incredibly insecure.
Yep, the whole hand bag and shoe thing I will never understand. I bought a red, patent leather purse on a clearance rack at Anne Taylor for $37 and I get compliments on it every single time I go out.
I guess it’s good to be queen.
She was able to afford buying the bag with the money she saved by using veggies from the ‘White House’ garden.
The $5,950 shiny black manila alligator clutch, a smaller version is shown above, is part of VBH's Spring 2009 collection.
I swear I live in bizarro world. If the Bush’s were caught with this in hand, while droves of American people were losing their jobs and homes, there would be outrage in the media.
Ethics rules and tax laws are for the “little people”....
Liberals:
“We don’t shop at Walmart, only trailer trash like the Palins and right wing America does”
sarc//
If you have to ask :-)
Haven’t you gotten the memo? Everything is relative. Relative to $5000, $875 is affordable. The Obamas are big leaguers. $875 is about right for Big Leaguers. We poor chumps couldn’t possibly understand what “affordability” is for Big Leaguers.
Obama probably didn’t buy it for her.
THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS BOUGHT IT!!
Well, I’d like to know how the O’s are acquiring all this high end stuff? Are they paying for it? Getting a deal? Are they gifts? And are the O’s violating any ethics rules and/or tax laws if they ain’t paying full freight?
A $6,000 purse damn well better come with $5,950 worth of cash in it.
PS. I do miss the days when important men wore neckties.
Maybe they gave her one. That’s not unheard of. If that’s teh case, why not just say so?
A bag carrying a bag.
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