The dress that launched a thousand middling blog post reviews, Michelle Obama's election-night Narcisco Rodriguez, landed her at the top of Vogue's top-ten list this week. Congratulations Ms. President-Elect: Michelle and her post-election glow beat out nine borderline horrific ensembles, including Gwyneth Paltrow's I-see-London tank dress, Chloe Sevigny's meh nightgown thing, and Hilary Swank's one [...]
Interested in enrolling your kid in a GLBT-friendly school? (I'm looking at you, Michelle and Barack). Woodley Park's Maret School, a K-12 college prep day school, will hold an event this Sunday for interested GLBT families to learn more about the school. The event will bring together GLBT parents and faculty along with Director of [...]
Last week's Daily Beast feature which asked former Project Runway contestants to design a Michelle Obama inauguration gown—using only ridiculous materials and some pluck—accidentally asked the wrong Jay McCarroll to design the dress. According to Jezebel, The Beast actually contacted one Jay McCarrol, who has but one "L" in his last name, is not a [...]
The Daily Beast posed this absurd challenge to former Project Runway contestants: Design an inaugural gown for Michelle Obama using only "Laura Bush’s 2005 Inaugural Ball dress, to be chopped up and repurposed, à la Pretty in Pink; an American flag; burlap potato sacks; and $10 worth of trims of their choice." (Umm, is that [...]
* The Washington Post Magazine yesterday detailed the storied law office romance of Michelle and Barack Obama. Even with my hard, unfeeling heart, I managed to read this . . . almost all the way though. Here's the engagement story:
[Michelle] began to pressure Barack to get married . . . Barack put her off, arguing [...]
According to the New York Post, Sarah Palin deploys a crack team of behind-the-scenes stylists to keep her looking VPILF-able. The confidential crew is sworn to secrecy on their role in Palin's fashion and beauty regimen. Reports the Post, "Hockey mom Sarah Palin not only wore lipstick to the Republican National Convention, the [...]
The Sexist's morning roundup of District chatter on sex, gender, and Sarah Palin.
* On Slate, Dahlia Lithwick serves Joe Biden with some rules on how to fight a girl. Lithwick, a former parliamentary debater (side-note: totally awesome), gives Biden a frank run-down on how not to lose the Veep debate to Governor Palin. Most of [...]
