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First Lady Michelle Obama picked fashion insider Isabel Toledo, 47, to design her Inaugural ensemble. The glamorous, creamy yellow dress and matching overcoat were made of satin-backed wool guipure, a kind of lace used most often in French haute couture. Obama accessorized the look with a sparkling crystal necklace and green leather gloves and shoes. Although the First Lady's office repeatedly said that Obama would not decide on her outfit until this morning, the choice - including the color, fabric and accessories - shows a lot of confidence and planning on the wearer's part. (See pictures of Michelle Obama...
...brings together the refinement of paper invitations (remember those...come in an envelope? Pretty cursive writing? Delivered by a postman? No?) and the efficiency of online communication. With the ability to choose everything from themes to fonts and paper type, users can indulge in their creative sides, adding garlands, satin-esque ribbons, and other ornamentation as they please...
...night. "In this economy, what are they thinking?" the Miami Herald asked in a front-page article this week. And in Miami - which last month had the nation's third-highest number of home foreclosures - residents may find it outright offensive to hold a power party whose posh, satin-lined box invitations alone cost $70 a piece just to print and assemble...
Miuccia Prada planted the seeds in her spring 2007 collection, sending down the runway two satin dresses the moody purple-blue of Van Gogh's irises. Since then, fellow designers Marc Jacobs and Zac Posen have filled their lines with shades of it. Nike, the Gap and even Cadillac are sporting its finery. And Michelle Obama certainly got the memo. She wore it to her husband's nomination ceremony and final debate and on Larry King Live--as did, come to think of it, Mr. King...
This Cinderella wears a satin pointe shoe adorned with crystals, and it’s Kudelka’s most brilliant contribution—though the image is spoiled as she is stripped of it and her clothes, to be revealed barefoot and in a silk slip, surrounded by an army of pumpkin-heads...