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Year in Fashion 2009
FLOTUS Fever
This wasn't so much the Year in Style as it was the Year in MObama. Blogs are so obsessed with her sartorial choices—one forward-thinker even got a book deal out of it (kudos, Mrs-O.org)—that the First Lady can't go to a food pantry on the day before Thanksgiving without having her outfit stalked (the jacket was Rick Owens, in case you were wondering). Introducing fashion-insider favorites (Toledo, Cornejo, Alaïa) to the general public while simultaneously bringing mass brands (Talbots, J.Crew, Gap) to the White House, Michelle O. rose to levels of adulation not seen since Camelot—so much so that poor Douglas Hannant was practically flogged when he suggested, "She is not the next Jackie O." His publicist quickly clarified that he meant that as a compliment.
Michelle Obama in Naeem Khan, at the Obamas' first state dinner.
This wasn't so much the Year in Style as it was the Year in MObama. Blogs are so obsessed with her sartorial choices—one forward-thinker even got a book deal out of it (kudos, Mrs-O.org)—that the First Lady can't go to a food pantry on the day before Thanksgiving without having her outfit stalked (the jacket was Rick Owens, in case you were wondering). Introducing fashion-insider favorites (Toledo, Cornejo, Alaïa) to the general public while simultaneously bringing mass brands (Talbots, J.Crew, Gap) to the White House, Michelle O. rose to levels of adulation not seen since Camelot—so much so that poor Douglas Hannant was practically flogged when he suggested, "She is not the next Jackie O." His publicist quickly clarified that he meant that as a compliment.
Michelle Obama in Naeem Khan, at the Obamas' first state dinner.