{"id":1307,"date":"2008-12-04T11:09:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T15:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatshaute.com\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2008-12-06T11:49:59","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T15:49:59","slug":"michelle-obamas-inaugural-dress-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/michelle-obamas-inaugural-dress-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama&#8217;s Inaugural Dress Sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Barack Obama<\/strong> may be making history as the first African-American President-elect, but <strong>Michelle Obama<\/strong> is the one designers are clamoring to dress. The First Lady-to-be has proven her worth as a smart, talented political partner, wife and mom, but also her <a href=\"http:\/\/whatshaute.com\/?p=1086\" target=\"_blank\">fashionista status<\/a>. Over the months leading up to the election as well as on election day, she wore everything from designs from her fellow Chicago native and friend, <strong>Maria Pinto<\/strong>, to simple, classic looks from <strong>H&amp;M<\/strong> and <strong>J. Crew<\/strong>, to her election day dress designed by <strong>Narciso Rodriguez<\/strong>. Now she&#8217;s preparing to ready herself for the January 20th inauguration, and the surrounding Presidential balls and galas. Sketches for her inauguration dress were submitted by all the top designers, from <strong>Michael Kors<\/strong> to <strong>Tracy Reese<\/strong> to <strong>Marc Jacobs<\/strong> and <strong>Badgley Mischka<\/strong>. Here are some of the best designs:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1310\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whatshaute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/oscar-de-la-renta-and-isaac-mizrahi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1310\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1310\" title=\"oscar-de-la-renta-and-isaac-mizrahi\" src=\"http:\/\/whatshaute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/oscar-de-la-renta-and-isaac-mizrahi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle, Malia and Sasha Obama sketches: Oscar de la Renta; Isaac Mizrahi<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1308\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whatshaute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/monique-lhuillier-and-michael-kors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1308\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1308\" title=\"monique-lhuillier-and-michael-kors\" src=\"http:\/\/whatshaute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/monique-lhuillier-and-michael-kors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Obama sketches: Monique Lhuillier; Michael Kors<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1309\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whatshaute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/christian_lacroix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1309\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1309\" title=\"christian_lacroix\" src=\"http:\/\/whatshaute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/christian_lacroix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Obama sketches: Christian Lacroix<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Check out all of the sketches on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwd.com\/fashion-news\/dressing-the-first-lady-1875632#\/slideshow\/article\/1875632\/1876121\" target=\"_blank\">WWD.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama may be making history as the first African-American President-elect, but Michelle Obama is the one designers are clamoring to dress. The First Lady-to-be has proven her worth as a smart, talented political partner, wife and mom, but also her fashionista status. Over the months leading up to the election as well as on [&hellip;]<a href=\"https:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/michelle-obamas-inaugural-dress-sketches\/\" title=\" Read More \u00bb &laquo;Michelle Obama's Inaugural Dress Sketches&raquo;\" class=\"more-link\"> Read More \u00bb <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,20],"tags":[533,446,536,444,64,535,447,534,282],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}