Visits: 38 United (mostly) in black, their differences were in the details. In any other circumstance it would have been a shocking sight. But it was only fitting that in her death Rosalynn Carter, the pioneering woman who turned the …
Michelle Obama’s Fashion Declaration of Independence
Visits: 23 The former first lady dressed with a new sense of freedom on her book tour. When is a book tour not just a book tour? When it is a platform for the refashioning, literally, of a major public …
Michael Smith, Decorator of the Obamas’ White House, Has New Book
Visits: 61 I was reading Michael Smith’s chronicle of designing the Obama White House, feeling serene, marinating in a luxurious world of wine-colored swatches and embossed mohair velvet and carpet border details desperately in need of tweaking. Suddenly, I was …
Michelle Obama Urged Everyone to Vote. Her Necklace Spelled It Out.
Visits: 50 It was a largely red, white and blue evening capped off by a delicate necklace with four letters strung out on a thin gold chain, like four bated breaths: V-O-T-E. The first night of the 2020 Democratic National …