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Michelle Obama: America's next fashion icon
Issue date: 11/20/08
Rumor has it that Michelle Obama will be featured on the cover of Vogue this coming March. Some other recent announcements for upcoming cover girls have raised many a well-groomed eyebrow. Jennifer Aniston for December? Blake Lively for February? Are these women really that important to fashion?
I can see a sliver of an argument for Lively, whose character Serena on Gossip Girl asserts an influence on teenagers, but that would be more of a reason to put her on Teen Vogue. And Aniston? Does anyone even remember what she looks like?
I personally would love it if Vogue and other supposedly high-fashion magazines shot only models and other people that actually matter in the fashion world for their covers.
I dream of the day when designers are featured regularly on the covers of glossies - just imagine how gorgeous Diane von Furstenberg, Vivienne Westwood or Rei Kawakubo would look, all done up and photographed by Irving Penn for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
And if it has to be a celebrity, at least have it be someone still relevant, like Mary-Kate Olsen, who is both a designer (albeit a neophyte in comparison to the ladies listed above) and a highly influential figure on high fashion and street fashion.
Michelle Obama, though, is a cover girl (well, woman) worthy of Vogue. The fashion world fell in love with the Obamas these past few months, just like the majority of Americans. Several topnotch designers - Marc Jacobs, Zac Posen, Narciso Rodriguez - produced Obama-themed clothing and accessories for the soon to be 44th President's official Web site, and then days before the election, Posen posted a video online encouraging people to "dress up and make history" while sporting the most fashionable assemble of political pins ever.
Now, I'll concede that a lot of this love is Barack-induced, but Michelle Obama will be the first First Lady to garner garment buzz since Jacqueline Kennedy.
Jackie Kennedy is a timeless American fashion icon. In 2008, the politician's wife tagged as "the next Jackie O." (at least according to Vanity Fair) was Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the First Lady of France.
I can see a sliver of an argument for Lively, whose character Serena on Gossip Girl asserts an influence on teenagers, but that would be more of a reason to put her on Teen Vogue. And Aniston? Does anyone even remember what she looks like?
I personally would love it if Vogue and other supposedly high-fashion magazines shot only models and other people that actually matter in the fashion world for their covers.
I dream of the day when designers are featured regularly on the covers of glossies - just imagine how gorgeous Diane von Furstenberg, Vivienne Westwood or Rei Kawakubo would look, all done up and photographed by Irving Penn for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
And if it has to be a celebrity, at least have it be someone still relevant, like Mary-Kate Olsen, who is both a designer (albeit a neophyte in comparison to the ladies listed above) and a highly influential figure on high fashion and street fashion.
Michelle Obama, though, is a cover girl (well, woman) worthy of Vogue. The fashion world fell in love with the Obamas these past few months, just like the majority of Americans. Several topnotch designers - Marc Jacobs, Zac Posen, Narciso Rodriguez - produced Obama-themed clothing and accessories for the soon to be 44th President's official Web site, and then days before the election, Posen posted a video online encouraging people to "dress up and make history" while sporting the most fashionable assemble of political pins ever.
Now, I'll concede that a lot of this love is Barack-induced, but Michelle Obama will be the first First Lady to garner garment buzz since Jacqueline Kennedy.
Jackie Kennedy is a timeless American fashion icon. In 2008, the politician's wife tagged as "the next Jackie O." (at least according to Vanity Fair) was Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the First Lady of France.
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Michelle
posted 12/04/08 @ 11:18 PM EST
Dear Editor,
May I have use of RSS feed to the article Michelle Obama:America's Next Fashion Icon, authored by an Armonk Byram Hills alumni. It would complement our current silver screen feature, Madlyn Dunham and Barak Obama, An American Dream. (Continued…)
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