Inauguration Diaries: Fashion

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“This choice sends a great message to the fashion community.

She could have gone with someone more obvious, like Ralph Lauren,

but this sends a message to the American designers who are

struggling. … It also says that just because she’s in the White

House, she’ll support the under-the-radar designers she wore on the

way to the White House.”
— Nicole Phelps, Style.com

She’s wearing that dress today for all of us. We’re all

wearing that dress with her. The dress is elegant, appropriate and

has the individual style stamp of Michelle Obama and is timely for

a woman in her 40s – and she wears embellishment during the day.

Hallelujah! — editorial stylist Mary Alice Stephenson

I don’t really have anything to say, other than to suggest these two didn’t take the words right out of these people’s mouths.

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