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Maria Pinto Closes Chicago Boutique. What's Michelle Obama to Wear? (M's designer goes bankrupt)
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| February 15, 2010
| Lesley Kennedy
Posted on 02/15/2010 2:00:37 PM PST by Stoat
Maria Pinto Closes Chicago Boutique. What's Michelle Obama to Wear?
by Lesley Kennedy Posted Feb 15th 2010 at 4:26PM
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Even designing dresses that turned
Michelle Obama into a fashion trendsetter couldn't keep
Maria Pinto in business.
The designer has
closed the doors to her Chicago boutique, reports the Chicago Sun-Times, and she is expected to seek bankruptcy protection this week.
Pinto tells the Sun-Times "economic challenges and soft buying trends at the top end of the apparel market" contributed to her business woes.
''I am confident that the 'Maria Pinto' name will not go away, but will merely take a break, before emerging in a new form," she tells the newspaper.
"I plan on using the next several months to explore different avenues and opportunities for business, as economic conditions improve."
In addition to dressing
Obama (see the purple sleeveless sheath dress she wore for the final primaries?), Pinto's customers also included
Oprah Winfrey and several Chicago socialites and civic leaders.
Pinto studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and New York's
Parsons School of Design and Fashion Institute of Technology, and worked for
Geoffrey Beene in her first fashion job. In 1991, she launched her own line, which was carried in stores including
Bergdorf Goodman, then she opened her Chicago boutique in 2008, according to the paper.
And, if there's any debate on
Michelle Obama's style power, here's a look at
her first 100 days of fashion.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boobbelt; closes; fashion; fashionpolice; flotusmichelle; hideousfashions; mariapinto; michelleobama; nobama; obama; pinto; sasquatch; store; wookie
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At a posthumous Medal of Honor award ceremony.
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posted on
02/15/2010 2:00:37 PM PST
by
Stoat
To: Stoat
OH NO! Where will she get her boob belts now??
2
posted on
02/15/2010 2:01:29 PM PST
by
Vasilli22
To: Stoat
Perhaps she can go into business selling a Michelle Obama™ brand of Boob Belts.
To: Vasilli22
To: Constitution Day
To: Vasilli22
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posted on
02/15/2010 2:03:11 PM PST
by
Vasilli22
To: Stoat
Even designing dresses that turned Michelle Obama into a fashion trendsetter couldn't keep Maria Pinto in business. Really? Because I don't see a lot of women wearing giant belts right up under their breasts, with 3/4 sleeve cardigans in colors that don't match the rest of the outfit and are buttoned incorrectly.
To: Stoat
Maria Pinto doesn’t know beans about fashion.
8
posted on
02/15/2010 2:03:47 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(:: The government will do for health care what it did for real estate. ::)
To: Pajama Blogger
To: Stoat
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posted on
02/15/2010 2:04:22 PM PST
by
bgill
(The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
To: Stoat
Even designing dresses that turned Michelle Obama into a fashion trendsetter couldn't keep Maria Pinto in business. Going out of business is what all the trendsetters are doing these days.
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posted on
02/15/2010 2:05:08 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: Stoat
God - she could find better stuff on the rack at Target. I wonder if this designer’s bsuiness was doing when Bush was President.
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posted on
02/15/2010 2:05:10 PM PST
by
Frantzie
(TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
To: Vasilli22
>>OH NO! Where will she get her boob belts now??
From designer Moocow Sasquatch.
To: Constitution Day
what !!!!!I thought she shopped at wal-mart~~~
To: Stoat
God’s way of saying, “You got no fashion sense.”
God’s way of proving He has a sense of humor.
Jackie O stops rolling.
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posted on
02/15/2010 2:07:28 PM PST
by
StAntKnee
(I keep thinking I'm gonna wake up from this dream theatre of the absurd.)
To: Stoat
Even designing dresses that turned Michelle Obama into a fashion trendsetter...
16
posted on
02/15/2010 2:07:32 PM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(The liberals are asking us to give Obama more time. Is 25 to life enough?)
To: Frantzie
Does it occur to anyone in the fashion industry that having an ugly woman with a fat a— wearing one’s clothes was not a selling point?
To: Vasilli22
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posted on
02/15/2010 2:08:17 PM PST
by
evets
(beer)
To: Stoat
That print should be called “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.”
To: Stoat
What she wears IS NOT her biggest problem.
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posted on
02/15/2010 2:09:16 PM PST
by
Slyfox
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