SO much has been written and said about what Michelle Obama has been wearing as she trots around Europe.
Every outfit she wears is analyzed and debated.
From the New York Times:
Breaking the tradition of American first ladies typically, though not exclusively, wearing American fashion, Michelle Obama wore a sleeveless knit dress by the Paris legend Azzedine Alaia to a dinner in Baden-Baden. Reached tonight by phone in his studio, Alaia said the dress, which has a ruffled skirt, was sold to Ikram, the Chicago store that has been supplying Mrs. Obama with most of her clothes and accessories. Alaia said he saw pictures of Mrs. Obama in the dress on the Internet.
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Wow. That's saturation coverage. Not all of the reports on Michelle's wardrobe have been positive.
From CNN: Oscar de la Renta has tough words for Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama's fashion choices at the G20 summit have drawn widespread praise, but at least one famous designer thinks the fist lady made a major faux pas in her wardrobe choice for a private audience with Queen Elizabeth II.
"You don't…go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater," Oscar de la Renta told Woman's Wear Daily regarding Mrs. Obama's decision to wear a cardigan over an Isabel Toledo-designed dress for the private meeting.
What's weird is the talk of Michelle Obama's fashion choices isn't just fodder for style mavens and entertainment media. It's not just reserved for those interested in fashion and gossip.
What Michelle is wearing is given almost the same importance as political news coming out of the European trip, as if it's supposed to really matter.
I think that's because the lib media are obsessed with drawing parallels between the Kennedys and the Obamas.
This is Camelot II. Just ask Chris Matthews.
Michelle is Jackie Kennedy. The world supposedly is fascinated with her style. In spite of a few fashion missteps, she's allegedly setting trends on this European tour. We all are looking to Michelle to show us the way.
Frankly, I think the coverage is embarrassing.
The Kennedy Camelot era was nearly 50 years ago. Times have changed since the early 1960s.
I'm surprised NOW and Leftist radicals aren't objecting to all the attention being paid to something as superficial as Michelle Obama's appearance. Should we really be SO concerned with how she looks?
Also, given the economic crisis and these hard times and the suffering of so many Americans, the emphasis on her clothes is inappropriate. Now is not the time to be highlighting ostentatiousness. There's a disconnect with that. Or do "royalty" like the Obamas get a pass? Are they allowed to flaunt wealth without having to spread it around?
Moreover, we know how much Sarah Palin's campaign wardrobe cost. How much is being spent on Michelle's clothes, shoes, hair, and makeup for the European tour? If we knew, we might want to get out our pitchforks.
Even though Obama preaches that ALL Americans must sacrifice, the White House obviously wanted Michelle's wardrobe and material extravagance to be a highlight of the trip, trying to recapture the mystique of Jackie Kennedy. I'm surprised she was willing to play that game. Michelle isn't in her early 30s and this isn't the early 60s.
Shouldn't the world be focusing on Michelle's qualities and abilities and talents rather than Michelle's clothes and hair?
Is she really satisfied with playing the shadow of Jackie Kennedy in this carefully choreographed, contrived 2009 version of Camelot?
3 comments:
The shadow of Jackie O? Just because we have two women who look good in clothes (though of very different builds) and add a breath of fresh air to the White House that does not mean one is mimicking the other. Michelle is quite a different woman than Jackie and her relationship with her husband is vastly different. It's pretty clear Michelle Obama walks in no one's shadow and casts an impressive one herself.
It will be hard for any first lady to top the striking figure she presented on Inaguration Day and night.
I for one am appalled by the MO tour of so called fashion on the Euro trip. It's like, maximize the gaudiness. She has lost all sense of taste now that she is FLOTUS. Those vile prints! And silly sweaters. She needs to learn one term that is so important to fashion to one of her stature--demure.
That said, it seems to me that one outfit, a stylish suit, for example, could take a woman through morning and afternoon events, with a change only necessary for evening. This would leave the impression that she is really a classy, sensible and practical FLOTUS, instead of an airhead teenager who has to change clothes 15 times a day.
I know MO is lovely and intelligent woman, but it seems she has let the fashion nonsense go to her head. Please Michelle, no more clown outfits and awful prints. Get a style advisor, and get real.
I am embarrassed by our first lady representing our country in skirts and blouses or sweaters when visiting dignitaries. As a middle class woman, I am proud of being able to shop at Talbots. I feel she is making fun of us because that is all we can afford. If she does not want to wear suits, then at least, wear a dress that is appropriate to the occasion.
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