motherjones.com - 12/6/2008
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Womens' Wear Daily commissioned top designers to 'dress' Michelle Obama in her role as First Lady. I'm with Slate's Julia Turner : Why'd so many draw her as a shiksa?
I get that these drawings are stylizations but, to design for someone individually sorta requires you to deal with their skin ...
seattletimes.nwsource.com - 12/5/2008
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GEORGETOWN, S.C. — Tiny wooden cabins line the
dirt road once known as Slave Street as it...
winds through Friendfield Plantation. More than 200 slaves lived in the whitewashed shacks in the early 1800s, and some of their descendants remained for more ...
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Politics | Michelle Obama's family: From slavery to ...
wwd.com - 12/3/2008
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wwd.com - 12/3/2008
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Who says these are bleak times? On one
matter at least, designers are positively euphoric. That is...
the Obama presidency, a two-part point of light. While much of the glee centers around the President-elect and his policies , Michelle Obama radiates a ...
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Michelle Obama: What Should She Wear? - ...
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WWD: Sketching Michelle Obama
The Moderate Voice —
... goes for bronze; Marc Jacobs and Koi Suwannagate both produce sketches with recognizably Michelle-shaped hair but skin that registers somewhere between alabaster and geisha. Of course, fashion sketches are stylized, not representational, which gives these designers plenty of wiggle room. (This may or may not explain why Zac Posen’s Michelle looks like a dying guppy.) But still: Is it so hard to draw a woman with black skin?
At Mother Jones, Debra Dickerson chimes in:
One hates to get all psychological…but are ...
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