Analyst Places $2.7 Billion Value on Michelle Obama’s Public Wardrobe Choices

New York Magazine ^ | 10/20/10 | Amy Odell

[Nachum]

In their latest Business Review, Harvard, that fashion-obsessed place a quick private plane ride north of us, had an analyst assess the monetary value Michelle Obama has on fashion labels she wears publicly. Apparently when Michelle wears something, that company's stock spikes upward. If it's not the label seeing a gain, stores that carry the labels, like Saks, stand to benefit. From November 2008 to December 2009, David Yermack counted that Michelle made 189 public appearances, and wore items by or sold at 29 publicly traded companies, including J.Crew, the Gap, Dillard's, and DSW.

[latina4dubya]

Yeah, she is able to wear the same thing forwards and backwards...

that is really weird... i did that back in the 80's with cardigan sweaters, but i was 17-years old... she just wore that laced-up thing on the "get out the vote" psa she and Obama did...

[Slyfox]

Her choices always look like dyed potato sacks and opened umbrellas.

[Don Corleone]

"Stalin was like God for us. We just believed he was an absolutely perfect individual, and he lived somewhere in the Kremlin, a light always in his window, and he was thinking about us, about each of us...For example, someone told me that Stalin could be the best surgeon. He could perform a brain operation better than anyone else, and I believed it."

OR...."Roosevelt was like God for us. We just believed he was an absolutely perfect individual, and he lived somewhere in the White House, a light always in his window, and he was thinking about us, about each of us...For example, someone told me that Roosevelt could be the best surgeon. He could perform a brain operation better than anyone else, and I believed it."

This was the mantra when I was a kid.

[bigbob]

Dang, better buy stock in horseblanket companies!

[Bitsy]

Yep. I told you so. Also, I think she tends to be color blind or maybe I am not in vogue and wear orange and turquoise together. Some of her color selections - frightening!

[hosepipe]

Yeah like that... a ghetto bag..

[DrC]

Don’t tell Michelle this, else she’ll start shaking down the fashion industry for her cut of the action (and funnel the funds into re-electing Obama Democrats).

[smalltownslick]

Surprised she hasn’t done that already. Remember Aretha tried it.

[dforest]

Holy Cow, this is a plus for Salvation Army, Bed, Bath, and Beyond and Goodyear!

[enraged]

That’s damn funny!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

‘Fashionista’ Ping!

[RegulatorCountry]

It took me a long time to believe that getup wasn’t some sort of Photoshop joke. The whole thing looks like a scene out of some weird, seventies British sitcom.

It’s all just too surreal, like she took Grace Slick’s pill that makes you larger but her clothes stayed small. And, that flower or whatever on her lapel looks like it’d squirt water.

[GOP_Lady]

Michelle Fashion Police Alert Ping!

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[quantim]

From the Vacation Gal series....knew that dress from somewhere.

[iceskater]

If I had only known, I would have bought stock in boob belts.

[lonestar]

Didn’t several of her “designers” go bankrupt?

[Vor Lady]

Thanks for the ping.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Yeah, I want to see some Hollywood elite and fashion writers put on that outfit and claim she’s so fashion savvy

[Katarina]

Thanks for the ping. Michell’s taste in clothes is beyond horrible. She is disgusting inside and out, can’t she at least dress fitting her role she is in unfortunately.