Someone googling “narciso rodriguez, communist” visited my blog today. I can only imagine it has something to do with the fuss over Michelle Obama’s smoking hot dress. Plenty of crazies have compared her election night attire to the “red hour glass found on the black widow spider“… “the symbol of the anarcho-syndicalist and anarcho-communist movements.” Enjoy the next eight years you paranoid creeps!
One of the many wonderful ripple effects of our next president: his wife can start taking more fashion risks. We saw it in the first debate dress, and even more so Tuesday Night: Michelle Obama has an avant-garde streak and within the next four years we could see her become the inside-the-Beltway (c. 1998) Chloe Sevigny. As someone who is the same height and size as our first lady to-be, I couldn’t be more delighted. Stop the hating, fashionistas! DC has enough J. Crew-clad ladies to go around, let her embrace every weird criss-crossy, samurai sleeve, accessory-laden instinct! (By the way, the cardigan over the Narciso Rodriguez was probably a last minute touch for modesty’s sake. It’s smoking hot without it, which is probably how she wore it backstage.) Update: ok, maybe not. But it does look a lot better in these photos than it photographed on stage.
In the comments of my last post about it, someone noted Michelle Obama’s outfit Friday is by Thakoon, who also designed the dress she wore at the last night of the DNC. Her wearing it, appears to be the most controversial thing that happened at the first debate. Ok, I would have worn several strands of black beads instead of the bow pin, but either way is was smart choice. It’s the kind of dress only a gallery assistant or preternaturally beautiful 40-something lawyer can get away with, (and she bought it off the rack, no stylist needed.) While designer Thakoon Panichgul has made a name for himself, he’s only 33, and this kind of exposure catapults him to a whole new level. By the way, Thakoon recently used a print showing roses with legs, a collaboration with one of my favorite artists, Laurie Simmons. In other politics and fashion news, “When Sarah Palin met Afghan president Hamid Karzai, she wore earrings in the shape of her home state of Alaska.”
I have nothing new to say about the debate last night (if you haven’t read it, Nate Silver has the best analysis,) but how about that dress Michelle Obama wore? It was a pattern one might normally associate with a “plastic covered couch”, with a strange black bow to the side, but she pulled it off. Then again, I guess opinions on her dress — like the debate itself — depend on your opinion of her husband. Ta-Nehisis Coates says, “It’s like she was dreamed up in ‘Black First Lady’ factory.” The White House/Black Market dress Michelle O wore on The View flew off the racks last spring, so I wouldn’t be surprised if an H+M knockoff (unless it was H+M?) finds its way in stores soon. Cindy McCain also looked great, but she’s so Dynasty. She should go back to the Rachel Maddow haircut and toughen up her look with some leather jackets and tall boots.
As of today, 42 Tumblr users, and probably a bunch more bloggers, posted this “semi-iconic detail of an iconic moment”. He’s not just going to be the first black president, but the first president in my lifetime who really, really loves his wife. While I agree one’s family life doesn’t predict performance, chalk it up as another reason everyone wants Obama as “Head of State.”
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