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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
(Image not included due to Free Republic rules pertaining to Getty Images)
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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To: Palladin
161
posted on
02/15/2010 8:34:57 PM PST
by
Krodg
To: maggief
Thanks for the "good news" ping LOL
Fashion designers must be careful with whom they associate with. I wonder if Manshelle will have the same golden touch with designers as obama has with elections.
To: mojitojoe
It is a squirrel. Remember that photo of the tourists and the squirrel that went viral months ago? Someone set up a site where you could put a picture in and it would add the squirrel. It has since been taken down and I wish I had done more of them while it was up and running. Actually, I had missed that photo when it came out and I thank you for bringing it to my attention. Here's the original photo and an article about it:
![The original Crasher Squirrel photo was taken by Melissa and Jackson Brandts in Banff in late May. The image of the squirrel has gone viral since it appeared on the National Geographic's website on Aug. 7.](http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2009/08/13/cgy-squirrel-brandts.jpg)
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2009/08/13/squirrel-banff-photo-brandts-geographic.html
and I was delighted to find that within the article above, there is a site (perhaps one that is different from the one you had difficulties with) which allows people to make up photos featuring the squirrel.
Of course, I HAD to give it a try ;-)
![Zero comforts supporters](http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k313/Stoat_2006/Zeroandsupporters.jpg)
Thanks very much for bringing it to my attention :-)
163
posted on
02/15/2010 9:13:07 PM PST
by
Stoat
(Sarah Palin 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
To: Stoat
Good one! Thanks for finding a new squirrel maker. The other one was easier but this gives you more options.
164
posted on
02/15/2010 10:59:33 PM PST
by
mojitojoe
(“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
To: Grizzled Bear; evets
Even Allegra would have nothing good to say about those orange socks (See post 18)! Oh, dear...oh, my goodness...oh, man.....words fail me. Really.
165
posted on
02/15/2010 11:25:18 PM PST
by
Allegra
(It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
To: mojitojoe
Shows how our country has declined. Embarassing trash was put into the Whitehouse.
166
posted on
02/16/2010 6:48:29 AM PST
by
angcat
(GOD SAVE US!)
To: mojitojoe
167
posted on
02/16/2010 6:49:25 AM PST
by
angcat
(GOD SAVE US!)
To: Ocarterma
...you mean to tell me that of all the businesses this "president" is going to let fail---he'd even allow an avowed supporter/sycophant to go under the bus???Dude. The President's brother lives in a hut. His aunt was on welfare and then up for deportation. He didn't take his children to see the grandmother who raised him on her deathbed. And you think they would worry about a fashion designer?
168
posted on
02/16/2010 9:35:40 AM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(Liberals love the poor so much they came up w/ a plan to create millions more of them. - Ann Coulter)
To: keepitreal
Sorry Ms. Pinto, but Hope and Change demands that rich folk be demonized and put more skin in the game. No more money for expensive clothes.Nailed it. Oh, the irony!
169
posted on
02/16/2010 9:36:49 AM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(Liberals love the poor so much they came up w/ a plan to create millions more of them. - Ann Coulter)
To: kcvl
170
posted on
02/16/2010 9:41:31 AM PST
by
gathersnomoss
(General George Patton had it right.)
To: ETL
Pfwaaap! Thank you Mad Magazine.
171
posted on
02/16/2010 9:42:26 AM PST
by
gathersnomoss
(General George Patton had it right.)
To: Viking83
Thank you for bringing beauty to an otherwise revolting post.
172
posted on
02/16/2010 9:46:28 AM PST
by
gathersnomoss
(General George Patton had it right.)
To: dfwgator
173
posted on
02/16/2010 9:46:46 AM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(Liberals love the poor so much they came up w/ a plan to create millions more of them. - Ann Coulter)
To: gathersnomoss
174
posted on
02/16/2010 9:48:40 AM PST
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Albion Wilde
175
posted on
02/16/2010 9:50:33 AM PST
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: mojitojoe
Re; pics of Big Mo with legs apart
You honkies learn the hokey pokie
You put your right foot out and shake it all about....
176
posted on
02/16/2010 10:13:41 AM PST
by
patriot08
(TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
To: ETL
Look at the eyes in this pic...dead, evil.
177
posted on
02/16/2010 10:15:09 AM PST
by
patriot08
(TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
To: SCalGal
She needs to be confined to dark pants suits and have her mouth duck-taped shut. Oh, wait..No. She’s such a good target. Carry on, Big Mo.
178
posted on
02/16/2010 10:17:18 AM PST
by
patriot08
(TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
To: SCalGal
Someone must have told her that standing with her legs spread apart would make them look like they aren't bowlegged. It doesn't workCheck out the top photo of the Sarkozys in post 104. European gentlepersons, and particularly the French, have a long tradition since the time of the American and French revolutions of standing with the feet together and the toes turned outward. It is considered polite behavior.
![](http://i47.tinypic.com/2ngwjt0.jpg)
"Blue Boy" by Gainsborough, 1770
"The turnout" is also one of the most basic instructions in classical dance, which came of age during the Renaissance:
![](http://i46.tinypic.com/1zfirnr.jpg)
You can see that stance in the portraits of our early patriot leaders.
![](http://i50.tinypic.com/54bqtc.jpg)
I suppose we should be proud of our American traditions, where anyone from any background can rise to the top office in the land. We have had classless presidents before, like Andrew Jackson, but he had other strong points. With this group, there's so little to admire.
179
posted on
02/16/2010 10:18:41 AM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(Liberals love the poor so much they came up w/ a plan to create millions more of them. - Ann Coulter)
To: Viking83
I think Laura had a prettier face. There was something odd about Jackie’s face..the wide set eyes.
Agree, Jackie was more fashionable..glamourous.
180
posted on
02/16/2010 10:19:14 AM PST
by
patriot08
(TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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