Posted on 07/09/2009 7:49:28 AM PDT by NMEwithin
Is First Lady Michelle Obama sporting a taste for ultra-expensive fashion pieces, or is she cementing her status as a savvy shopper? Back in April she wore a pair of $540 Lanvin sneakers at a Washington food bank. Earlier this week (while strolling the wooded landscape outside of Moscow), she carried a sexy black clutch, which Italian luxury house VBH boasts is their shiny black alligator manila bag – with a retail sticker price of $5,950. The White House flatly denies that Obama bought such a high-priced accessory, and says that she was carrying a patent clutch that retails for $875. The First Lady, who has impressed with her chic, affordable style sense, embracing Everywoman brands like Gap and J.Crew, flashed the shiny handheld while walking with her husband, President Barack Obama, during their Monday meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana. Told that Obama's office denied the bag was the high-end VBH clutch, Kelly Vitko, a rep for the company replied, "It’s definitely ours."
No amount of money could dress up that woman.
Told that Obama’s office denied the bag was the high-end VBH clutch, Kelly Vitko, a rep for the company replied, “It’s definitely ours.”
What does she know? Hmmmmmmmppphh....
Wow, since when is $875 for a purse “affordable style sense”?
Ghetto gauche.
How can $875 clutch purse and affordable be stated in the same sentence?
Ethics rules and tax laws are for the “little people”....
Who wants cake? Anyone?
Gee, I carry a $35 bag that I bought at an outlet mall. Two worlds.....
And a note to Mrs. O: You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
These people are total phonies and hypocrites and liars.
If it is, she got it for free in hopes some fools will rush in to buy the bag.
Michelle Obama is not one for the obvious when it comes to fashion. She is understated and tasteful so appropriately, she shows up in New York in a VBH Ballerina Clutch in Colbalt Blue Satin ($1500). She contrasts her LBD with this bright clutch that totally pops. Who knew she was such a Bag Snob? I mean, only those in the know can appreciate what VBH is all about - quality, simplicity and subtlety but oh-so stylish!
Michelle ‘Antoinette’ Obama is displaying the same utter lack of regard for the ‘people’ that her namesake Marie Antoinette did in France.
Their is a smoldering anger building against the new ‘royalty’ that inhabits the White House. The Obama’s are so tone deaf they don’t realize what is happening in the real USA. I think it will not be too long before even they will see what destruction they have wrought amongst the masses. The poor and downtrodden who they brainwashed with their ‘hope and change’ message will be the ones who ultimately turn on them and run them out of office.
That’s nothing. I get free bags at the grocery store.
I’ve seen many hawkers in DC that sell these look-a-like purses on the cheap. Maybe she bought them there?
Like her hubby, just a good knock-off?
Photoshopped the pic. Under magnification, although rather pixelated it definitly dosen’t look like patent leather and has the look of some sort of gator hide.
Not to mention incredibly insecure.
Yep, the whole hand bag and shoe thing I will never understand. I bought a red, patent leather purse on a clearance rack at Anne Taylor for $37 and I get compliments on it every single time I go out.
I guess it’s good to be queen.
She was able to afford buying the bag with the money she saved by using veggies from the ‘White House’ garden.
The $5,950 shiny black manila alligator clutch, a smaller version is shown above, is part of VBH's Spring 2009 collection.
I swear I live in bizarro world. If the Bush’s were caught with this in hand, while droves of American people were losing their jobs and homes, there would be outrage in the media.
Ethics rules and tax laws are for the “little people”....
Liberals:
“We don’t shop at Walmart, only trailer trash like the Palins and right wing America does”
sarc//
If you have to ask :-)
Haven’t you gotten the memo? Everything is relative. Relative to $5000, $875 is affordable. The Obamas are big leaguers. $875 is about right for Big Leaguers. We poor chumps couldn’t possibly understand what “affordability” is for Big Leaguers.
Obama probably didn’t buy it for her.
THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS BOUGHT IT!!
Well, I’d like to know how the O’s are acquiring all this high end stuff? Are they paying for it? Getting a deal? Are they gifts? And are the O’s violating any ethics rules and/or tax laws if they ain’t paying full freight?
A $6,000 purse damn well better come with $5,950 worth of cash in it.
PS. I do miss the days when important men wore neckties.
Maybe they gave her one. That’s not unheard of. If that’s teh case, why not just say so?
A bag carrying a bag.
What sort of fool would pay $875 for patent leather?
[In Moscow, MrsO] carried a sexy black clutch, which Italian luxury house VBH boasts is their shiny black alligator manila bag – with a retail sticker price of $5,950.
The White House flatly denies that Obama bought such a high-priced accessory, and says that she was carrying a patent clutch that retails for $875.
[The key phrase being “denies she bought”...]
An $875 knockoff? Oh… well.... that’s all right, then.
We report; you deride.
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Earth to the O's....
Maybe they gave her one. That’s not unheard of. If that’s teh case, why not just say so?
It’s the allergy they have to the truth...
That’s a nicely Nixonian non-denial denial...
ping
Ethics rules and/or tax laws, I suspect....
"It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that...
Ethics rules and/or tax laws, I suspect....
In other words, the allergy to the truth serves a greater purpose? Hahahahahaha...you are probably right...it’s not a simple allergy...it’s a reaction.
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