Carla Bruni – Supermodel turned First Lady of France
Politics and Fashion let’s have a look at who’s wearing what and who’s got the media (and with that by default the public’s) vote… we’ll have a quick look through the Fashionista Contenders, the Fashionista Underdogs and examine each Fashionista’s Style Credentials …
The Fashionista Contenders:
Team Europe – French first Lady Carla Bruni- Sarkozy Vs. Sarah Brown British first Lady
Team USA First Ladies in waiting – Michelle O Bama Vs. Cindy McCain
Fashionista Underdog:
Cindy McCain for being a republican (it’s kind of untrendy because of the whole Bush thing!) & not as young and hip as her rival – Michelle Obama.
Sarah Brown she may be England’s first lady but she’s no English rose in the eyes of the press, she just does not have the French Chic Je ne sai quoi that comes so effortlessly to the First Lady of France who is incidentally not French but Italian…
Fashionista’s by Style credentials:
1. Michelle Obama’s Style – in a word – chic and affordable!
Style credentials:
She is very much the modern woman, successful career, darling children and charismatic husband. She is the American Dream as she fought her way into the Ivy League all the way to Harvard from a deprived childhood in Chicago …
Included in the Vanity Fair International Best dressed list 2008
Vanity Fair called her “our commander in sheath” giving her style the official stamp of commercial approval
American women follow her fashion lead – Ricco had been designing dresses for more than 20 years, but it wasn’t until Michelle Obama sported Ricco’s black-and-white leaf-print shift — sold at the White House Black Market Store, for $148 — on “The View,” and women across America went wild for it. She is credited with making the dress sell out within hours. Ricco, who wasn’t watching “The View” when her design made its TV debut, had no idea, Obama would be wearing it. “Apparently she just bought it off the rack,” says Ricco. “I didn’t realize until people started calling me, and then I watched the show on Youtube.” Source: NYDailyNews.com
Seal of approval from the press as Michelle has had more positive press coverage than Cindy
2. Cindy McCain’s Style – in a word – prim and proper!
Style credentials:
Cindy is a cross between Second Wives Club meets Gossip Girl, look wise she does look rather Barbie-esque but that’s selling Cindy short she has overcome 7 miscarriages and an addition to painkillers after a stroke, she is a strong woman that stands by her man no matter what.
Excluded from Vanity Fair list – Cindy McCain was left off the coveted roster as she must’ve felt like, well, sheath, from the snub.
Negative press – Cindy McCain made news for all the wrong reasons while getting a private peek at Oscar de la Renta’s fall line (her bodyguards were left to stand outside the designer’s studio in the heat which gave the story away). Cindy came across as too pampered and it became a down-to-earth versus high maintenance story played out in the headlines! Read the rest of this entry »
