About that dress!!!!

What’s meaner than negative campaign ads?  Fashion reporting!  Here's some dish.  Oprah Winfrey, Obama’s earliest superstar supporter, already knows what she'll be wearing to the Inauguration Balls. She bought it last February.   And she was so confident of the election's outcome she said,  “Last week I said to the stylist, ‘Take it out of the closet. Let’s take it out. Let’s hang it up, and let it air out.”

Another fashion note: What exactly was Michelle Obama wearing on the night of the election.  No matter how happy one was with the election's outcome even Obama's supporters must have thought her red and black dress and black cardigan  was a little strange.  The blog Wonkette dubbed it “hell-colored” and declared the color combination was  “Red, the blood of angry men!  Black, the dark of ages past!” referencing a rousing battle song  from the score of “ Les Miserables.” Another fashion commentator said it looked like a lava lamp.

The dress was designed by Narcisco Rodriguez, who was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s favorite designer. It was based on a design from  his Spring 2009 fashion show.    A bit pricer one assumes than the simple $160 cotton dress in which Michelle appeared  on The View or the J Crew outfit she wore on Jay Leno.  

She was also bedecked with bling including $10,000 diamond earrings and several diamond bangles.  Were they a gift from Oprah?  Or from the President-elect ?

Now that Sarah’s back in a parka and on ice for awhile, Michelle will be in the view finder  for exactly this kind of analysis from on.  Women’s Wear Daily is already reporting that  Vogue editor Anna Wintour is trying to get her to pose for the magazine’s cover.    Be assured,  fashion reporting can be every bit as mean as a negative campaign ad.  Maybe even meaner.     

 

Comments

[Vanessa Prouty]

I thought Michelle was using an unusual method of announcing her pregnancy, in a typical in-your-face sort of way. Let's just say that it was an awful choice, and that the MSM ignored it.

[johndamion]

Not the most becoming dress I've ever seen. It will be interesting to watch her behavior in the White House.
Will she have a role besides trying to be a good Mom? This is an executive woman used to doing high-level activity. As long as she's not Hillary, I can deal with it, I'm sure.