On Tuesday, michelle Obama became the first lady. Yesterday morning, she has a new title, by the Washington post: under the leadership of the society.
The level of interest in her chest beyond, recent first lady. Americans may be very fond of Laura bush, but they didn't want to dress like her. Some of the first lady, development for, and some don't succeed, since Jackie. Kennedy had first lady important that much.
It won't hurt the jean michel very young, tall and good-looking. But there are more. She wore dress looks very beautiful in a totally different from former first lady, really important problem. The image of 6 feet black women walk in Pennsylvania avenue and into the White House facts, it can change for the better, sometimes than we expected. Now, this is an information we all want to hear, perhaps this is why we are so obsessed with all Michelle.
Barack Obama used his inauguration speech to show us he has stomach for the fight ahead, and he expects the same of us. With hindsight, I guess it was dumb to think he was going to stand up there and announce he had found $700bn dollars down the back of the White House sofa, and called in a favour from the Almighty to have the ice-caps refrozen. Still. We want, we need the Obamas to make our hearts sing. And that's where Michelle comes in.
For the ceremony, she dressed herself and her daughters in a riot of glorious, vibrant, unexpected colour. Her coat and dress were a glinting, greenish-gold. (We're calling it lemongrass, or maybe citrine.) They were a daring choice even before she added the avocado leather gloves and clashing bottle-green patent shoes. Malia, the elder daughter, wore periwinkle blue and black, overturning once and for all the old wives' tale that blue and black don't work together. Sasha - the sassy little one - wore tangerine with candy pink, which really shouldn't work but just totally, totally did. The shades were in themselves a neat celebration of a black first family - not many white skin tones could carry off a tangerine scarf, after all - and the contrast with Laura Bush in her cool, patrician seal-grey was positively joyous.
No less telling than the clothes themselves were the labels inside them. Michelle's coat and dress for the ceremony were by Isabel Toledo, a 47-year-old Cuban-American designer who is well known to fashion insiders but has almost no profile among the public. On a day when titans of American fashion from Oscar de la Renta to Donna Karan were falling over themselves to dress her, Michelle chose a designer who is hugely respected within the industry but whose advertising budget stands at zero dollars. When it came to getting changed for the evening, she appeared in a one-shoulder ivory gown by Jason Wu, a 26-year-old Taipei-born, American-based designer whose name was previously known only to close readers of those New Hot Names To Watch lists in fashion magazines.
"Our minds are no less inventive," her husband told us on Tuesday, "than when this crisis began." By showcasing little-known American designers of diverse heritage, the new first lady deftly illustrated both the depth of talent and endeavour in the huge American fashion industry, and her skill as a cheerleader for it. The shoes for both events were
Jimmy Choo; the bold jewellery - huge cocktail rings, long drop earrings - an extension of the fondness for statement jewellery she displayed during the election campaign.
