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Posted on 11/24/2009 11:03:56 AM PST by traumer
Michelle Obama, once celebrated for her patronage of high street shops accessible to most American women, has raised the fashion stakes by ordering a pair of thigh-high leather boots from France.
The American first lady could give Carla Bruni, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and a former supermodel, a run for her money once she receives the flat black boots, which have been specially ordered from Robert Clergerie, the French designer based in Romans, in western France.
Mrs Obama has also ordered a pair of calf-length boots in beige buckskin, according to Mr Clergerie, whose boots sell for hundreds of pounds.
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Robert Clergerie said the first lady's order had been sent in by a retailer in her hometown Chicago after Mrs Obama could not find the exact style she wanted. One of the pairs was modified slightly from the catalogue model at her request, he said.
With her fashion-forward move, Mrs Obama has kicked aside controversy over the $540 (£362) Lanvin trainers she wore to volunteer at a charity food bank last spring.
Critics were quick to question the appropriateness of wearing such expensive shoes to a charity event for the poor - particularly given the troubled economy.
During her husband's presidential campaign, Mrs Obama was lauded by US women's magazines for sporting affordable cardigans from J.Crew and reasonably priced dresses by Anne Klein.
Clergerie is one of the few remaining great shoemakers in Romans-sur-Isere, a small town in south-west France that has been renowned for its shoes for centuries.
He has previously made footwear for Madonna, Bianca Jagger and Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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13.00” circumference
http://www.zappos.com/robert-clergerie-fissaw-black-suede-stretch
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Oh my, how big will these have to be....
They’ll need at least 2 cows worth of leather to make them.
Wow, the media is beer-bonging the “Michelle Obama Media-Made Lie of Beauty” Kool-Aid!
These people are literally clinically insane.
When’s the six-foot paper bag I ordered for her to put on coming in?
Crickets are chirpin’ over at PETA.
Sooo she’ll look like a very large ass woman in stupid looking boots.
With a scowell.
The humanity, how many cows must die for this woman’s vanity.
Obama, will be ordering some assless chaps too.
Sorry it won’t look that good.
Man, those are some high thighs...
First Ho might as well dress like one.
LMAO! Theses people are deranged that write this shit....
I dont believe she could give a mediocre, average female in a convenience store a run for their money in looks or personality....let alone Carla, or Jacki O. The lie's are more pronounced this year than any since I have been on this planet. They now tell you not to believe what you can clearly see with your own eyes in a picture.
How about boob boots — no need for the belt. You heard it here first, folks.
Maybe she’ll by boots that go up high enough to cover her ugly +#@^ing face.
“The American first lady could give Carla Bruni, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and a former supermodel, a run for her money once she receives the flat black boots”
Only if she stuffs Carla INTO one of the boots! And Carla would probably fit with enough room left over for friends...
But where is PETA on this? How many cows must die...for just the left boot?
Are they going to have a foot race? Must be, because Carla Bruni has nothing to worry about fashion-wise or looks-wise.
Oui, Chatzilla, mais oui.
Oui, Chatzilla, mais oui.
Nice—when dealing with talking about the Worst Lady, we need a periodic antidote.
Carla and Michelle—talk about chicken salad and chicken shi........
Thanks - Now I’ll need an overdose of mental bleach just to get THAT image out of my fricking head!!! ;-P
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