slate.com - 12/4/2008
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Koi Suwannagate & Marc Jacobs illustrations from WWD Women's Wear Daily has commissioned fashion designers from Betsey Johnson to Peter Som to imagine outfits Michelle Obama might wear to the inauguration. The resulting slide show , published on Monday, is full of sumptuous looks: I favor ...
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 —
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? - ...
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 12/4/2008
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A boldface list of designers sketched out possible
inaugural gowns and dresses for the First Lady in...
waiting.
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Dressing Michelle Obama
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Note to Fashion World: Michelle Obama Is Black
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... 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? ...
WWD: Sketching Michelle Obama
The Moderate Voice —
Women’s Wear Daily commissioned a bunch of fashion designers to imagine outfits Michelle Obama might wear to the inauguration. A good bit of the chatter the slideshow triggered was around how incapable the world’s top fashion designers are of sketching Michelle.
Slate’s Julia Turner:
The fashion world is notoriously inhospitable to black women—if Michelle Obama lands the cover of Vogue, as has been rumored, she’ll be one of the few black nonmodels ever to grace it—but these sketches suggest a discomfort with blackness that’s truly startling. Check out Karl ...
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motherjones.com 12/6/2008 — 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?
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msnbc.com: Politics 12/8/2008
While the world waits for Michelle Obama to choose her Inauguration threads, President-elect Barack Obama has already made his decision — a locally-made Hart Schaffner Marx tuxedo, his first new tux in 15 years.
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