Michelle Obama is her own personal stylist

I love that she is not using a professional stylist. She gets a lot of love for wearing J. Crew and Gap fashions, and she wears them very well. But when she chooses things for high-profile events like, say, election night things get very fun and interesting.

 

Narciso Rodriguez is a fairly edgy, sophisticated American designer, whose current collection has many new and exciting shapes, colors, constructions, and looks. Compare the runway version and the dress Michelle chose to wear as her family became the first-family-elect. The design has been reworked to suit the more conservative venue — perhaps not entirely successfully. I am among those who thought it was a little weird-looking.

So, I hope in her closet for less high-profile times, Michelle has the "real version" which I think would be ab fab on her.

I was afraid as the campaign season began that she'd hew to the Jackie-O-esque solid-color-a-line dresses and pearls. A kind of uniform. But I was delighted as we began to see a loser and more expressive fashion sense revealed. I loved, loved, loved the yellow J. Crew ensemble (the love, love, love that she wre it too!) she wore for her appearance on Jay Leno's show. It actually reminded me that J. Crew often ventures into eye-catching and innovative realms: very nicely mixed textures and patterns, not safey-safey.

I am actually not an inveterate style-watcher (despite my addiction to Project Runway) but I was first alerted give Mrs. Obama's style a good look when I heard that my very fashion-forward aunt in Portland has the same Thakoon dress Michelle wore on the night of the first presidential debate. Sure the dress was in the pricier realms, as is appropriate for a big night, but the LAT looks at the designer more closely and sees some interesting very Obama-friendly themes:

Thakoon Panichgul — pronounced Tie-koon — is an up and comer with a textured past. He moved from northern Thailand to Omaha with his family when he was 11.  Also, he has been tapped to design for Target, so expect his collection to arrive there in December.

Anyway, I hope she never gets a stylist so we can continue to see what she wears as an expression of her taste and ideas.

— Abigail

Comments

[topdog]

that jcrew dress looks so much better on a woman with hips. wouldn't it be nice if modeling got the same reform that wall street is supposedly gonna get? Let them be tall but let them eat, I say.

M should get a stylist but someone who will work with M's vision not some other one that isn't authentic.

[andrea]

she dresses very well, i think shes the hottest first lady since jacky kennedy

[Lukas]

A fashion stylist can make a person look and feel better about him. They will make you to identify the best outfits and makeup for you. A good personal stylist will make you achieve the image you desire.