Posted on 10/25/2009 12:02:15 PM PDT by Baladas
London, October 25 (ANI): Michelle Obama has become the subject of a new book that hails her style and wardrobe for influencing the fashion pages.
“Mrs O: The Face of Fashion Democracy”, published by Hachette, celebrates the US First Lady’s closet from the campaign trail to the White House.
The tome glances at the mum-of-two’s designer dresses to affordable brands with more than 120 pictures, reports the Telegraph.
It also features interviews from some of Michelle’s favourite designers, such as Isabel Toledo, Jason Wu, Michael Kors, Maria Pinto and Isaac Mizrahi.
Mary Tomer, 28, who works in advertising for Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York, said: ‘I was captivated by this very dynamic professional woman who was confident wearing such striking feminine clothes.
‘She was just as happy wearing off-the-rack outfits for 150 dollars as she was choosing interesting young designers in high fashion. It was such a change for a woman in politics where if you think of style at all, it’s all boxy suits.’
Simon Doonan, the British creative director of Barneys, the chic New York clothing store Barneys, also praised Michelle, often dubbed the First Lady of Fashion, saying. ‘Mrs Obama has a nuanced but creative style of dressing.
‘She is a connoisseur who knows how to go beyond a purely conventional approach and inject her style with a dash of idiosyncracy. Nothing extreme, always appropriate, but never boring or conventional.’ (ANI)
Good Lord....what’s with these freaks? There’s even a website.
“Mrs O.”...transparent effort to key off “Jackie O.” halo.
Dressing like a lamp shade is the new black.
Wait, is that racist?
150 bucks off the rack....yup, we can relate....<*/s off>
let ‘em eat cake.
“Mrs O: The Face of Fashion Democracy”
Fashion Democracy - Does that mean everybody has an equal vote in what we all wear? (good grief!)
I can find better clothes at the thrift store.
I can’t help but laugh hysterically when someone says how great she looks.
Nothing extreme? Always appropriate?
QUOTE—150 bucks off the rack....yup, we can relate....<*/s off>
let ‘em eat cake.—END QUOTE
Mrs. Zero definitely likes the cake part.
Was this with the $500.00 sneakers? She may wear off the rack outfits but they come off the rack of a Paris boutique after spending gobs of taxpayer money flying over there to pick them up. By the time she flys home with these "off the rack" outfits they're probably north of $5000.00 each compliments of the US taxpayer.
I kinda liked that Black Widow thingy she wore in Chicago that first night. Hoped it would catch on. Not too late.
Boob belt bombshell!
Looks like the old red Ked’s my mom used to wear when weeding the flower beds.
Frankly, I wouldn’t insult the Bizarros!
Goood Gawd!
No, poor taste has nothing to do with race.
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