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First lady likes Obama’s voice; rates Romney singing ‘beautiful’
Michelle Obama might have been one of the few people in the United States who knew President Barack Obama could actually carry a tune before he surprised an Apollo Theater audience this month.
In her debut appearance on NBC “The Tonight Show” as first lady, Mrs. Obama told host Jay Leno that her husband sings to her all the time. She said she even knew what song it would be when she heard about his singing a line from Al Green's "Let's Stay Together." Mrs. Obama gave a very tiny demonstration before conceding that the president was the better singer. Obama said her husband has a beautiful voice.
Asked about the performance turned in by Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney singing "America the Beautiful" on the campaign trail in Florida, Mrs. Obama said "its beautiful."
Here's a clip from NBC
(Video clip courtesy: NBC/ Photo credit: NBC “The Tonight Show”/Stacie McChesney)
Michelle Obama favorite Jason Wu shines at NY Fashion Week
Designer Jason Wu was already a rising star of American fashion, but when Michelle Obama chose to wear a gown he designed to the balls on Inauguration Day, Wu’s career soared.
And when he showed his collection for spring and summer 2010 on Friday at New York Fashion Week, the industry elite — including Vogue Editor Anna Wintour — turned out in force for the show at the St. Regis hotel on Fifth Avenue.
Models paraded on a mirrored runway underneath enormous chandeliers, with some guests remarking that any number of the designs would be suited to the fashionable First Lady.
Here is a video from the show. Do you like his collection?
How fabulous this design is! It is only diminished by the radiance from the beauty of our first lady! Jason Wu is greatly acknowledged by my peers in the fashion world. As his designs become more intricate,expressive, and fluid; I am anxious to work with him.
I work with the Real Housewives of Atlanta, and I am so exhausted from recent events: I had to post a comment:
If you want to see the OPPOSITE of elegance and class; view some of the behavior of the woman from Real Housewives of Atlanta. I just had to comment on most recent episode:
I must admit this show is chock-full of melodrama–the kind you can’t look away from. This is the episode that the gives Lisa Wu-Hartwell’s “Closet Freak” line along with the Fashion Stylist Tracy Sipp there coup de gras. You really see more than just a “good first effort” as NeNe diminuitively referred to as; I saw a very tasteful, trendy, and refreshing way of looking at these items that ingeniously could be worn on a night out or worn at night entertaining that special significant other. Mr. Tracy Sipp did launch a subtle attack on Sheree who was the absentee rival. To show up late with a off-the-top-of-the deck excuse, adding insult to injury–further waxed Mr. Tracy Sipp’s fury which was quite contained. For Ms. Whitfield to throw the final jab at Lisa by saying that she didn’t miss much; indicative of what Lisa was wearing; shows that Sheree is classless, self-absorbed with delusion of granduer, petty and ultimately inferior to the likes of Lisa and Tracy Sipp’s Fashion prowess.
Michelle Obama’s Vogue shoot — wise or not?
It must be hard to resist when a leading fashion magazine like Vogue wants to put you on their cover.
But should First Lady Michelle Obama have agreed to pose for the style bible so soon after Barack Obama’s inauguration, and at a time of severe economic crisis?
The Obamas have generated the kind of media coverage more usually given to A-list movie stars than politicians (not counting French First Lady and former model Carla Bruni-Sarkozy).
Obama’s mix and match, designer and chain store style, has boosted the U.S. apparel industry and been emulated by American women around the nation.
But do Americans want their First Lady to be a fashion model, or appearing in a magazine that advertises luxury shoes, jewelry, make-up and clothes at prices well beyond the pocket books of most working Americans?
Michelle wore her own clothes for the eight-page Vogue interview and photo-shoot. But was it a wise decision to agree to it?
Every First Lady since Lou Hoover, (except for Bess Truman) has been in Vogue magazine…..even Laura Bush. Hilary Clinton was the only Firast Lady until Michelle Obama to be on the cover.
She was being cordial which the other side has no clue what that word means.