Michelle O and Her Relationship With Fashion: Call It a 'Sidebar'
Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 8:38AM I missed this NYMag Intelligencer article, positioning Michelle Obama's relationship with fashion as being very similar to my own viewpoint. See Anne's "Michelle Obama Calls Her Own Fashion Shots."
While the fashionistas are waxing poetic over our First Lady's relationship with clothes, our First Lady has other priorities on her mind. NYMag picks the perfect word to define Michelle's relationship with fashion: Sidebar.
Jackie Kennedy Onassis was defined by her relationship with style. There are fabulously interesting articles about her love of all things French. See this excellent article The Two First Ladies, Vanity Fair, Nov. 2009 issue.
Returning to the topic of Michelle Style, Diane von Furstenberg, president of CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America) sees our new First Lady's Harvard degree as far more important than her preference for cardigan sweaters.
Michelle Obama will become a style icon, because she is naturally so.
Unlike Jackie Kennedy, Michelle Obama's focus is on much more humanitarian and relevant subjects than fashion and style (which in no way knocks the great history of Kennedy family commitments to the issues of our time.)
When you close your eyes and reflect on the meaning of Jackie O, you don't get images of this American princess wading in thigh-high boots into the True Grit issues that make our lives better for average Americans. I totally support Jackie's desire to elevate culture in America, using style and fashion as a lynchpin.
Michelle Obama has a different -- and perhaps much more pertinent agenda -- for American life in 2009.
Understanding the breath of our First Lady's vision, ethics and more unsavoury subjects -- like racisim -- will be discussed here at Michelle-Style. Organic food, carbon footprints. The host of "style" topics is exploding.
What we are witnessing is a redefinition of what it means to be a truly stylish woman in America. Our new First Lady is a Cultural Creative, and not a Modern. More on this topic, when I write it on Cultural Creatives Channel, Anne of Carversville.
I, for one, am thrilled.
Enough said. A


















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