First Lady Michelle Obama Does ‘Vogue’ Magazine
First Lady Michelle Obama is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Vogue magazine, becoming only the second First Lady (after Hillary Clinton) to grace the cover. Here is Michelle’s very lovely magazine cover where she is rockin’ a hawt PINK dress designed by Jason Wu, the same designer who created her fabulous Inauguration dress:
Michelle Obama is in Vogue. Literally. As President Obama deals with crises on various fronts, the first lady follows tradition and steps into the March issue of Vogue, on stands in New York and Los Angeles Feb. 17. The magazine has photographed nearly every new first lady since Lou Hoover in 1929. Bess Truman is the only first lady since that has not appeared in Vogue, and Jackie Kennedy opted for a drawing by René Bouche. Only Hillary Clinton and Obama have made the cover. Wearing a magenta silk dress by inaugural gown designer Jason Wu on the cover, Michelle Obama’s image is captured by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, who also shot inside photographs for the article by Andre Leon Talley, who discloses that he is a “passionate supporter” and “volunteered in the campaign trenches.” And while other friends and supporters emphasize Obama’s priorities as far as daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, and her desire to make the White House more inclusive, the first lady talks about those ideals when it comes to fashion. “First and foremost, I wear what I love,” she says. “That’s what women have to focus on: what makes them happy and what makes them feel comfortable and beautiful. If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion.” Vogue notes that Obama’s “lithe frame — an uncommon figure for an American First Lady” and her leanings toward new names in American design, such as Wu and Isabel Toledo, who created the lemongrass ensemble she wore at the swearing-in, have prompted some to dub her the “new Jackie Kennedy.” Vogue insists that Obama’s style is more “pragmatism, not glamour.” When she wore the black cardigan over the Narciso Rodriguez dress during the president’s Nov. 4 acceptance speech in Chicago’s Grant Park, she received some harsh criticism. “I’m not going to pretend that I don’t care about it,” she says. “But I also have to be very practical. In the end, someone will always not like what you wear. … I was cold; I needed that sweater!”
OMG, I love her. She deffo has the right kind of style and altho some of her outfits have drawn criticism, I think that she generally gets it right. While I contend that a woman as intelligent and as accomplished as Michelle Obama should FIRST be lauded for her talents, I absolutely understand why so many people are to taken with her sense of style as well. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a faboo First Lady in the White House like Michelle :) After the jump, check out a couple other photos of Michelle Obama from this new issue of Vogue magazine …
The black outfit was designed by her fave designer Narciso Rodriguez (natch) and the salmon colored outfit is from J. Crew. She looks amazing in both … which really goes to show that style knows no cost. If you got it, you got it … and Michelle Obama has deffo got it. I hope we get to see her on the cover of more magazines … we shouldn’t let President Obama enjoy all the limelight.
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February 11th, 2009 at 8:24 am
I like the inside pics better than the cover pic – but over all I am really quite impressed! Vogue made a great choice in going with this coverstory and I will have to pick up a copy.
February 11th, 2009 at 8:25 am
She looks cute but I think it would have been better in a more Madonna type spread:)! I am just kidding people!
February 11th, 2009 at 8:27 am
Gorgeous! I’m with you, Trent…. she’s intelligent and accomplished and should be lauded for those things. BUT, she is also faboo! It’s so cool to have a young, vibrant, obviously loving, non-silver-spoon type couple in the White House.
February 11th, 2009 at 8:29 am
love her!
February 11th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Mr. G’ = LOL :P
February 11th, 2009 at 8:33 am
I love her. What a great role model for women everywhere.
February 11th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Oh the kitten heels are just too cute.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:10 am
I love the pose in the third photo, I can see her actually reading/working like that :)
February 11th, 2009 at 9:23 am
I don’t think the cover photo is appealing at all. She looks very uncomfortable. The other pictures are great, though. I wish everyone would stop focusing on her fashion sense ie J. Crew, and start paying attention to the work she’ll do as First Lady. I respect the praise she has been getting but she has barely been First Lady for a month..not even! Let’s wait to see what happens, maybe? I’m sure she’ll make us VERY proud!!
February 11th, 2009 at 9:27 am
I have to admit… I really like the outfit from J.Crew! Looks really good on her :)
February 11th, 2009 at 9:28 am
Michelle Obama is so fabulous. I love her.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Shouldn’t we hail her as the Chieftess?
February 11th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Michelle is the perfect first lady. love her.
February 11th, 2009 at 10:43 am
I don’t see how everyone says she’s perfect w/o even seeing what she is going to do. Talk about pre-judgement!
February 11th, 2009 at 11:02 am
She looks awesome in black outfit.
February 11th, 2009 at 11:03 am
her eyebrows look evil
February 11th, 2009 at 11:15 am
The lousy republicans that my parents play bridge with think she’s a dog, kept going on and on about how ugly she is….I think that is why those of us who love the new administration are emphasizing her beauty…when, in reality, she’s just a nice looking lady with a tough role to play. Good luck Mama Michelle!
February 11th, 2009 at 11:16 am
@Avi — she was born into a low-income family on the South Side of Chicago but kicked ass in school and studied at Princeton and Harvard. She worked for the city of Chicago, was the director of a nonprofit, and then was an executive at the U. Chicago hospital. AND she’s a great mom and obviously in an equal, peer-to-peer relationship with her husband. All in all I think she’s accomplished a lot already… I don’t see any “pre” judgement here. And you’re the only one saying she’s “perfect”.
February 11th, 2009 at 11:23 am
She looks great. Nice cover shot. We need more positive stories like this, someone who made it to one of the highest stations in life coming from a humble background. Your thoughts mold your life; it’s not the other way around. Congratulations to her.
Ryan
February 11th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Lauren please..I did not say she was perfect. Read some of the other comments..wtf? I was talking about accomplishment AFTER being the First Lady, NOT before. There is a difference. I never criticized her efforts before being FL. Didn’t you notice that? I never said anything negative about Michelle. I actually said it’s amazing everyone focuses on her style, rather than her hard work!
February 11th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
At first I did not like the cover, but the more i looked at it, the better I liked it. It is nice to see a beautiful strong, talented, powerful woman, who happens to have a good fashion sense along with beautiful, strong, and powerful arms and body (and I don’t mean it in a sexual way, it’s a purely asexual statement).
The only awkward part is the smile. would’ve been better to smile big or not at all… She looks a bit self-conscious about smile, I have always thought. But she is not a model, so the ability to blank out is not expected
To all the models, I’m not meaning that in a bad way, I’m saying this as a model myself, sometimes you have to let go of insecurities and pretend you love everything about yourself…
They chose the picture most likely becasue it does show elegance, but at the same time it shows strenght. Check the figure, the arms and the position of the lower hand
February 11th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Congrats to the First Lady for making the magazine much more elegant and stylish!
February 11th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Love it! Love her! Love that she’s intelligent and strong, yet still puts her family first.
February 11th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Absolutly love it and her…i can’t wait to buy the issue myself!
February 11th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Very pretty! She should be on a different mag, like maybe victoria secrete… JUST KIDDING!
February 11th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Love her. So cool.
February 11th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
i just love her. what an amazing first lady [:
February 11th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Hm I don’t think the cover photo is very pretty.
February 11th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
I think she is the type of “old fashioned” classy and pretty that my grandmother’s generation would call “handsome.” That isn’t an insult at all. She isn’t stereotypically pretty but she carries herself with grace and is attractive. I can’t wait to see what she will do alongside her husband.
February 12th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
She is amazing and such a beautiful women. I will deff have to go out and pick this up.