‘Michelle thinks she has great arms’
She needs to put a jacket on, or wear sleeves, unless she’s going to the park with her kids or a dinner date with her husband.
Next, she should start to work on her posture.
How Ikram Goldman became Michelle Obama’s closest fashion adviser
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About a month before the presidential election, Ikram Goldman turned up in Paris wearing an oversize dress emblazoned with Barack Obama’s image, created for Goldman by the cult Japanese label Undercover.
The week of the inaugural, Michelle Obama turned up in Washington wearing, in a more subtle way, Goldman’s imprint, via designer dresses vetted through Goldman’s boutique, Ikram, in Chicago.
A month past the inauguration, both women might have hoped the media glare on their relationship would dim. But the Obamas’ first state dinner Sunday kindled another round of questions about her deep-purple sequin gown. (Some answers: It was designed by Peter Soronen and styled by Goldman with a Tom Binns necklace.) And at New York Fashion Week last week, curiosity greeted Goldman at every turn, with this simmering question: How did she earn a starring role in the first lady’s wardrobe choices?Adding a shrill note to the discussion was a story in The New York Times just before the shows kicked off. Influential fashion critic Cathy Horyn and Eric Wilson quoted veteran designers as saying that Obama is excluding a wealth of talent by relying on a retailer as gatekeeper, and suggesting that Goldman is advancing her own interests too directly. The company director for Jason Wu, who designed Obama’s inaugural gown and the dress she wears on the cover of March Vogue, told the Tribune that Wu is limiting his distribution to one store per city. In Chicago, that’s Ikram.
Goldman is friends with prominent fashion editors, such as Vogue’s Sally Singer, who exchange intelligence with Goldman during the international circuit of fashion shows.
That is one way Ikram has won the loyalty of high-profile Chicago women such as White House social secretary Desirée Rogers; Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments; Linda Johnson Rice of the Ebony publishing empire; and Valerie Jarrett, a top aide to the president.
Goldman and Obama developed an abiding faith in each other’s causes. During the presidential race, Goldman’s customers and associates received e-mails urging them to support for Barack Obama. Goldman donated $6,900 to the campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Though some have complained that Obama has yet to wear anything from a black designer, it’s worth noting that Goldman contacted Tracy Reese, who is African-American, for dresses before the inauguration, though Obama has yet to wear them.
Another potential controversy was that Wu wasn’t paid for the ball gown. But he was told that, if worn, it would be donated to the Smithsonian Institution. He said he was satisfied with that place in fashion history—one that’s shared by Ikram.
BUT SARAH PALIN TOOK HEAT FOR HER BORROWED (from the RNC) CLOTHING!!!
She slouches a lot but that is common with tall women, especially if the tall woman has a husband who might be sensitive about appearing shorter than his wife. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn she has been instructed not to look taller than Barack.
