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Michelle Obama Undercover Shopping at Target

Michelle Obama Undercover Shopping at Target

First Lady Michelle Obama sported a Nike baseball cap, sunglasses and a floral-print button down shirt on a shopping trip to a Target department store in Alexandria, Virginia Thursday.

Why Designers are Down on Michelle Obama

Why Designers are Down on Michelle Obama

I was both pleased and perturbed by the “On the Runway” story in the Sunday New York Times Style section on January 30th. Titled “First in Fashion Only?” the article reported on how the fashion publication Women’s Wear Daily, designer Oscar de la Renta and the Council of Fashion Designers of America are “trying to shame Mrs. Obama for her sin of wearing fashion by a non-American designer.” The fuss is over the red Alexander McQueen gown worn by Mrs. Obama to the state dinner for China in January. The article also pointed out that, with the exception of de la Renta, many members of the CFDA, “including its president, Diane Von Furstenberg, manufacture a significant portion of their clothes outside the United States, mainly Asia.” Based on that fact, it may be safe to conclude that the issue is not whether Mrs. Obama is wearing American designers, it’s that she’s not wearing their designs.

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