Posted on 12/20/2018 9:27:08 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Michelle Obamas footwear is causing a fashion frenzy, after the former first lady sported sparkling $4,000 designer boots.
The Becoming author stepped out in the eye-catching pair of Balenciaga boots on Wednesday at a Brooklyn stop on her nationwide book tour. Former Sex and the City star and fashion designer Sarah Jessica Parker served as the celebrity guest moderator for the chat about Obamas best-selling memoir.
The gold, thigh-high boots retail for $3,800, and several sizes were sold out or low in stock on at least one site selling them after Obama's appearance.
Multiple fashion gurus and first lady watchers went wild for the lux look:
The current first lady has also drawn attention for her footwear. Last year, Melania Trump's press office slammed the media for focusing on her high heel shoes as she boarded Air Force One to head to Texas to visit areas damaged by Hurricane Harvey.
In a headline, The Mirror called the stiletto-style shoes the "most inappropriate clothes imaginable."
Stephanie Grisham, Trump's communications director, said in a statement to CNN at the time, "It's sad that we have an active and ongoing natural disaster in Texas, and people are worried about her shoes."
Grisham also knocked the press for another instance of homing in on what Trump was sporting on her feet in a CNN op-ed last week, writing, "When Mrs. Trump invited children from a local Boys and Girls club to help plant vegetables in the White House garden, the media chose to focus on the cost of her shirt and the fact that her shoes were clean."
splash? I have better words.. but being a lady wont use them
Sarah is very tiny and the moose is well......a moose. No photoshopping I don’t believe.
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Oh look, a bruised Chaquita banana. Very fashionable....
My Gawd
Ghetto fabulous boots. $4k? LMAO.
Our country LOVES SLUTS....but ONLY when they are on the left!! She looks totally AWFUL!!!
No kidding - she said that in her book.
MO: “Does this dress make me look bruised”?
Who cares what kind of shoes a former or current First Lady wears?
Last time I saw boots like those a house had just landed on the owner.
She has the worst taste in fashion that I have ever seen.
Her foot looks like a crocodile ready for the kill!
Never saw a woman with such long feet—not sure I worded this properly.
Just speaking my mind and shaking my head.
Hideous,
Absolutely Hideous.
LOL - yeah you're right. Still, 'star struck' is harmless... and again it's their money - their choice.
RACISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
What is the name of this scary animal?
My old mule is getting a little hefty lately. Think I might get her some of those!
... ‘star struck’ is harmless...
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I don’t think it is harmless. The word ‘influencer’ has specific meanings and subtexts.
Of course, this could also just be a very shiny squirrel.
Either way, there is method to this sort of display and the way it is positioned in the media.
I was going to say ‘she has come a long way since her in-da-hood look the first couple of years she was in DC’.
Then, I opened the thread and saw that goshawful pic.
I’m surprised the boot company would make those type in men’s sizes.
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