Two dresses from last night's Oscars Michelle Obama should have worn to the Inaugural balls
Last night’s Oscars were a look into some of what else was available to Michelle Obama to wear to the Inaugural balls a month ago — as all the same designers who courted her plied Hollywood’s award show crowd with largely the same gowns. Whatever didn’t make it to Washington in January showed up in Hollywood last night.
Which still doesn’t help us understand why Michelle chose reknown drag designer Jason Wu, most celebrated for his work with RuPaul and America’s most famous transexual, Amanda Lepore — or why she chose to wear this Wilma Flintstone-inspired Yabba Dabba Don’t, when she had the potential for so many fabulous fashion Do’s:
Like, for instance, this beautiful purple dress worn by Alicia Keyes last night:
It’s bare-shouldered, the way Michelle likes (for whatever reason), has interesting texture without looking like coffee filters (see Inaugural gown above), and has a youthfulness that most definitely does not bring to mind anything from Hanna Barbara, or your grandmother’s parlor room curtains.
In a similar shade, this other dress worn by Natalie Portman would have been lovely too:
It’s really two different related tones of lilac, with slight Empire to the waist, and could have looked wonderful with Michelle’s height and tones.
Michelle would have looked stunning in either of these purple numbers at the Inaugural balls.
Someone with great Photoshop skills should do a mockup, because we’ve never seen Michelle in dresses this nice, but really want to encourage her to state wearing more purple, and to consider choices like the ones Alicia Keyes and Natalie Portman made.
She would totally OWN purple the way Nancy Reagan owns red and Barbara Bush owns navy blue.
It really should be her signature color…like in this photo spread Tyra Banks did sometime in November or December:
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I vote for Natalie Portman’s gown, on her and on MO. Personally, I’m not a fan of slits up to the top of leg, but definitely no slits on gowns with poofy bottoms. I like the slit on a more fitted dress, and then less of one, which I think looks sexier. Less is more, and all that.
But you’re right, Meanchelle should own purple. OH! I LMAO when I saw Whoopi in the leopard print whatever it was she was wearing. I think she ruined leopard prints for me forever. Whoopi: get some tips from Vanessa Williams.
Leopard would look pretty on Michelle, though. It looks GORGEOUS on Vanessa Williams.
There has to be some young designer out there who could craft an entire four years’ of wardrobe for Michelle in just shades of purple, yellow, and leopard print. And, honestly, it should be someone who does not like her personally, but whose reputation would be at stake for making her look good or bad.
It’s clear she surrounds herself only with loyalists who agree with whatever she think herself — so it’s very Versailles, and everything she does is called “wonderful, marvelous”. Well, we all know how that sort of Yesmanship gets everyone in trouble, whether it’s at a palace in Washington or one in Memphis, where a big fat rock star suffered the consequences of too much Yesmanship, and too many sequines, too.
HB says: And, honestly, it should be someone who does not like her personally, but whose reputation would be at stake for making her look good or bad.
I say: God, you guys are smart!
Yes, poor Elvis. No true friends whatsoever, at least not as tailors were concerned.
P.S. But what did you think of Whoopi’s
“dress”? I would rather have seen her in the usual pants and boxy sweater.
Whoopi looks best in pants. She looked dreadful last night.
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But so did everyone on stage with Penelope Cruz. It’s like they all wore superhero costumes.
A lady we know had a shower curtain that looked like Angelica Huston.
Tilda Swinton is wearing a dry cleaning bag.
Goldie Hawn tangled with a bobcat backstage.
Eva Marie Saint’s auditioning for a new Matrix trilogy.
And Whoopi could easily be telling fortunes on a corner after the show.
Terrible, all five of them.
That was beautiful. Thank you!
Here’s a tip for all women and gay men: never, ever go shopping with your friends.
Go shopping with someone you know but who isn’t a very close friend, and who dresses well himself. If you can find a somewhat catty gay guy who isn’t rocking any flash in the pan trends himself, all the better.
The idea is to not have anyone advise you who will spare your feelings by saying you like nice in things. And if someone ever stops you in a store from buying something and tells you that it looks like a sausage casing on you, or it makes you look fat, don’t be all offended. Hug that person and take him to the next store with you, because it’s not that you’re fat, it’s that some clothes don’t work for you, and you need to accept that.
No amount of hope or magic is going to ever squeeze any of us into a size 28 Dolce and Gabanna anything ever again. If we would ever try, no matter how good the sale was, or how awesome the pants were, we hope someone would stop us.
Michelle has no one to stop her, has an unlimited shopping budget, likes outlandish things, and unfortunately doesn’t know she needs help both with the bare shoulders thing, and the way most of her clothes fit.
Michele made Jason Wu feel important for the first time in his adult life. Michele has no taste. I have not seen her in anything great up to this point. I can only imagine what their living quarters looks like.
Not to change the subject, but I am going to change the subject. The bloggers at a certain blog have already decided to replace Sarah Palin with Bobby Jindal as their pick for presidential contender in 2012, mainly because he is saying no to some of the stimulus money. It just kills me how they are so dismissive of her, like she is going to go away in the minds of those who feel she is the real deal.
The media is pushing him, also. He does have some interesting religious issues/experiences that the media will jump all over, so this could get a bit interesting.
Nancy,
The media is pushing Jindal and Crist because they will lose, and they want Obama to have a second term.
You will not defeat Obama by putting up another young, inexperienced, “skinny guy with a funny name” who has an exotic and inspiring background and life story. That’s like making Deep Impact after Armageddon already came out, or doing Antz after A Bug’s Life.
Crist has loads of secrets in his closet…operative word is closet.
The media would love to handpick either one of them for 2012.
Is this a style blog now?
Betty – Michelle and her Mother bought furniture at Ikea. Enough said. Nothing the matter with Ikea … just not for the White House. Swedish modern doesn’t mix with Queen Anne and Louis XIV, I don’t care how eclectic you like things.
Granny -
What did they buy from Ikea? For the private residence, right?
They should be buying American-made for everything in the White House. Surely, there is American-made furniture somewhere.
Hey! I decided to play around in photo shop and put something together. I am a bit rusty, as it’s been a few years since my last graphics course, but I think it turned out pretty good, could be better, but I think it shows how it would look pretty well.
I couldn’t find an e-mail address, so I’m posting it here. I hope that’s ok, if not, sorry in advance, also, sorry if the code doesn’t work, if not, the direct link is: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=28ivw3d&s=5
Kristin, who hasn’t commented except once way back in the Fall, but faithfully reads and LOVES the blog!
JEEEEZ Kristin. I just lost my breakfast. Michelle just makes any dress look like a garbage bag. Yes, garbage in a garbage bag…Just sayin’
Hard to argue with any of that.
who cares what she wears?
Ugly Betty has more fashion sense than Michelle.
It amazes me that she thinks those extra-long arms and those footballer shoulders must be shown off for the rest of us to oogle over. Else, why does she continue to wear sleeveless clothes in the dead of winter?
OT, I see that Ayers is displeased with O for sending more troops to Afghanistan. Do we care?
“Ugly Betty has more fashion sense than Michelle.”
Funniest line of the thread! Truest, too!
Michelle’s taste is all in her mouth. I’ve never seen a woman spend so much money to look like something you could sit on or peep out from behind.
OMG–Just tuned in (late) to the speechifying, and Michele is wearing PURPLE! She’s reading HillBuzz!!!!!!!!!!