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This should be the No Drama ***** Thread!
After all it should stay true to their personalities!
Back on topic. Do y'all think Michelle has a stylist, or does she pick her own stuff? She is clearly a woman who is into fashion.
I agree, Malia is going to be a beauty.
I agree, Malia is going to be a beauty.
From what I have read, I don't think she uses a stylist exclusively to dress her. I think that she knows what she wants and a stylist might help her find the pieces she is interested in. Most of the stuff she wears like Maria Pinto, she has been wearing for years in Chicago before she was in the national lime light.
This excerpt from the NY Times Fashion Diary summarizes Michelle's style quite well:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/fashion/08michelle.html
Fashion Diary
She Dresses to Win
By GUY TREBAY
Published: June 8, 2008
WHILE Mrs. Kennedy [Jackie O] relied on a carefully assembled coterie of wealthy women — Jayne Wrightsman, Bunny Mellon, Nicole Alphand— to advise her on matters of style, Michelle ***** apparently pulls off the feat of getting dressed on her own.
“To the best of my knowledge, she does not use a stylist,” said Mrs. *****’s spokeswoman, Katie McCormick Lelyveld, although the candidate’s wife is known to have ties to the designer Ms. Pinto and to Ikram Goldman, the owner of Ikram, a Chicago specialty store. (Both declined to speak about the relationship.)
“What’s important here is that we’re not starting from zero with Michelle *****,” said Ms. Collins of Vanity Fair. “I’m sure she’s being advised. But there’s nothing imposed on her that isn’t generated by who she is. She has a very definite sense of herself.”
Sorry if I always sound like I'm gushing but I'm so tired of looking at pretty-young-things who wear next to nothing or look like they just rolled out of bed being touted as fashion icons......it's nice to see a mature woman looking chic and stylish.
Here some more excerpts and pictures from another interesting NY Times Fashion & Style article on Michelle's role in fashion:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/fashion/08michelle.html?scp=5&sq=michelle+*****&st=nyt
U.S. Fashion’s One-Woman Bailout?
By GUY TREBAY
Published: January 7, 2009
Yet Mrs. ***** did something bolder on the campaign trail and, in a sense, less expected. With flashcard clarity, she signaled an interest both in looking stylish and also in advancing the cause of American fashion and those who design and make it. She wore off-the-rack stuff from J. Crew and, at times controversially, designs by fashion darlings like Isabel Toledo, Thakoon Panichgul and Narciso Rodriguez. She brought to the campaign a sophisticated approach to high-low dressing, a determination to adapt designers’ work to suit herself — adding jewelry or sweaters or wearing flat shoes with sheaths or even altering dressmaking details — as well as a forthright conviction that it is the woman who should wear the clothes and not the other way around.
Insignificant as this may seem in the larger scheme of things, it is less so when one considers the distressing state in which American fashion has found itself lately, with both chain and department stores shutting their doors, consumers confidence at its lowest level in decades and manufacturers struggling to remain afloat in what, as May Chen, the international vice president of the union group Unite Here, explained, “has always been a very credit-sensitive industry.”
Hamish Bowles, the Vogue editor who was curator of “Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years,” a 2001 show of Kennedy’s style at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, said of Mrs. *****, “My perception is that she’s already had an extremely potent effect” on the business.
“Just looking at the designers she’s been drawn to, you can see she’s shown astute sartorial judgment,” Mr. Bowles said. What she has also made clear in her choices, he added, is “that thoughtful and intelligent American designers are perfectly capable of creating clothes that have an impact on the world stage.”
The key word in that statement is “American,” a fact not lost on the retailers burdened in recent years by the weakened purchasing power of the dollar in Europe, where most designer fashion originates, and by the decision American consumers seem to have made to shop in their closets as they wait out the recession.
“There is something timely about celebrating American fashion and American designers,” said Stephanie Solomon, the fashion director of Bloomingdale’s, although that “something” may be largely a function of the $5,000 price tag on a typical imported dress from Lanvin.
“Mrs. ***** is, first of all, very elegant and has wonderful taste,” Ms. Solomon said. “But she also recognizes the value of beautiful dresses and not big prices. She dresses like taste doesn’t necessarily have to do with brand or status, but with what looks well on your body and makes you look glamorous, bottom line.” And that, she added, is “very refreshing and appropriate for this period.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/fashion/08michelle.html?scp=5&sq=michelle+*****&st=nyt
U.S. Fashion’s One-Woman Bailout?
By GUY TREBAY
Published: January 7, 2009
Yet Mrs. ***** did something bolder on the campaign trail and, in a sense, less expected. With flashcard clarity, she signaled an interest both in looking stylish and also in advancing the cause of American fashion and those who design and make it. She wore off-the-rack stuff from J. Crew and, at times controversially, designs by fashion darlings like Isabel Toledo, Thakoon Panichgul and Narciso Rodriguez. She brought to the campaign a sophisticated approach to high-low dressing, a determination to adapt designers’ work to suit herself — adding jewelry or sweaters or wearing flat shoes with sheaths or even altering dressmaking details — as well as a forthright conviction that it is the woman who should wear the clothes and not the other way around.
Insignificant as this may seem in the larger scheme of things, it is less so when one considers the distressing state in which American fashion has found itself lately, with both chain and department stores shutting their doors, consumers confidence at its lowest level in decades and manufacturers struggling to remain afloat in what, as May Chen, the international vice president of the union group Unite Here, explained, “has always been a very credit-sensitive industry.”
Hamish Bowles, the Vogue editor who was curator of “Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years,” a 2001 show of Kennedy’s style at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, said of Mrs. *****, “My perception is that she’s already had an extremely potent effect” on the business.
“Just looking at the designers she’s been drawn to, you can see she’s shown astute sartorial judgment,” Mr. Bowles said. What she has also made clear in her choices, he added, is “that thoughtful and intelligent American designers are perfectly capable of creating clothes that have an impact on the world stage.”
The key word in that statement is “American,” a fact not lost on the retailers burdened in recent years by the weakened purchasing power of the dollar in Europe, where most designer fashion originates, and by the decision American consumers seem to have made to shop in their closets as they wait out the recession.
“There is something timely about celebrating American fashion and American designers,” said Stephanie Solomon, the fashion director of Bloomingdale’s, although that “something” may be largely a function of the $5,000 price tag on a typical imported dress from Lanvin.
“Mrs. ***** is, first of all, very elegant and has wonderful taste,” Ms. Solomon said. “But she also recognizes the value of beautiful dresses and not big prices. She dresses like taste doesn’t necessarily have to do with brand or status, but with what looks well on your body and makes you look glamorous, bottom line.” And that, she added, is “very refreshing and appropriate for this period.”
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More pics for the naysayers!
After today I am going to be pictured out for a while so I will need your help to keep this thread loaded with awesome pics!
After today I am going to be pictured out for a while so I will need your help to keep this thread loaded with awesome pics!
Hopefully the pics I posted today along with the 2 NY Times articles reaffirms what we all know to be true, Michelle is an awesome fashion icon! 
My last pic for the day:
My last pic for the day:
Phew! Posting all those pics was exhausting ladies! 
It's someone else's turn to post pics tomorrow!
Okay and now to comment on the plethora of pics I just posted:
I love all the pics of her, especially the one of Barack and Michelle with Oprah! She looks very chic with her hair pulled up like that and that blouse is awesome!
She is fabulous in reds, blacks, purples, teals, and in yellow! I love how she mixes prints and keeps things fun!
I also think BOTH NY TIMES ARTICLES are fantastic! So RIGHT ON!! They describe Michelle's essence and style perfectly!
You ladies should read the entire articles. I didn't post all of it, because they were rather lengthy!
Definitely read the articles and let me know what you think in this thread!
It's someone else's turn to post pics tomorrow!
Okay and now to comment on the plethora of pics I just posted:
I love all the pics of her, especially the one of Barack and Michelle with Oprah! She looks very chic with her hair pulled up like that and that blouse is awesome!
She is fabulous in reds, blacks, purples, teals, and in yellow! I love how she mixes prints and keeps things fun!
I also think BOTH NY TIMES ARTICLES are fantastic! So RIGHT ON!! They describe Michelle's essence and style perfectly!
You ladies should read the entire articles. I didn't post all of it, because they were rather lengthy!
Definitely read the articles and let me know what you think in this thread!
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