I LOVE Oscar De La Renta’s design best!

Not to mention I love how he included the girls in the picture for the event! They also are coordinated well, just caught that! (Red, White and Blue!!!)

D.R. stand up!!!!!

she’ll make the right choice for herself as well as the girls. of that i’m positive. plus her body is a designer’s dream. that along w/ her fashion sense is enough to convince me that she’ll look great.

the christian lacrouix dresses look soo cruella deville or something….i really like the oscar de la renta dresses and the one by monique h.

It would have been interesting to see what the usual suspects would have desinged i.e. Dolce and Gabbana, Versace, Louis Vuitton

The Chanel.

When I scrolled down to it I was like ‘WOW’ too gorgeous! Plus the inauguration is going to be in January it’ll be cold brrrrr! The Chanel hands down is her taste, beautiful, timeless, sophisticated and The Chanel is not to flashy I mean it’s a recession people she should not be to ‘over’ flashy.

But, whatever she chooses she’ll look beautiful

The white suit

ok..not sure what she is going to wear, but ah i hope she dnt wear no grandma shoes ! !! ! ! !

I LOVE the Oscar De La Renta Dress the most. It is very elegant and the childrens dresses are pretty too. It shows the red, white and blue without being over the top.

I also love the blue Michael Kors dress!

The Marc Jacobs is my favorite! But maybe in a different color scheme. That one and the Oscar de la Renta seem like the two that best suit her style (from what I’ve seen her wear). All of them look great in their own way.

The Oscar De La Renta doesn’t look grand enough for a ball it looks more like for a luncheon-that one should be all the way out including those over the top clown looking ones

@Lis,

You must have been in East Africa back in the 50s, because “the motherland” is reppin more than native garb. BTW, what’s wrong with cultural-conscious! You “anti-cultrual” types give me the blues. And, just because Atlanta is running over with Africans, don’t think that you have the market cornered on deversity. People of color help put the Obamas in the white house, just like we did with the Clintons and Carters. If “it’s just fashion”, let’s spread the wealth. And, in the words of Slanky Payne from the Projects, “EUROPEANS AIN’T THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN STITCH AND HEM!!!!!” lol!

omg, this is so hard. i would love it if she could rep tracey reese…but i don’t like the dress. however, the michael kors and monique l. are to DIE for. they look snazzy yet have classic elegance. yeah, she should pick one of those two. oh and the badgley dress is hot too.

OF course the OSCAR DE LA RENTE, Monique and Nicole. SO fierce , so regal. You go michelle knock um dead…see u there

1. Monique Lhuiller
2. Carolina Herrara
3. Michael Kors
4. Oscar De La Renta
5. Zac Posen
6. Chanel

She could make any of these work. I really hope she would pick of these designers to do her dress.

I think she should choose a wonderful design from a not so famous designer so she can help put them on the map. Those big designers need no help or introduction.

@9 Please tell me you joking right?

Lmao @ House of Dereon and someone said Kenti cloth, are you serious? This is 2008 about to be 2009. You guys cant be serious…

My choice is CHRISTIAN LACROIX #2!

Rev Wright is a good man who is a product of his environment and the 1960’s, where speaking out against the system was the norm for black and white people.

He is a hero for speaking the truth, but white rascist who are desperate to have the truth silenced him, and did their best to make him look ridiculous. they want their black leaders to totally disown their own people before they will give them power. Barack should have the power to address many problems in the black community, as president. By disassociating himself it made white rascist feel comfortable enought with him that he WOULD BE THEIR PRESIDENT and voted for him as a reward. Which means that they expect Barack to do for EVERYONE EXCEPT BLACK PEOPLE. AND THAT WE SHOULD HAVE TAXATION WITH NO REPRESENTATION.

LOOK AT YOUR TAX BILLS RECEIPTS FOR EVERYTHING YOU BUY FROM FOOD, TO CLOTHING, TO CARS TO HOUSES, AND ALL THE LICENSES/REGISTRATION FEES YOU PAY. ALL OF THAT MONEY SHOULD BE IN YOUR OWN POCKET IF THE GOVT ISN’T GOING TO GIVE YOU HELP WHEN YOU NEED IT. THAT’S WHY WE PAY TAXES. UNFORTUNATELY A GOOD AMOUNT OF OUR TAX DOLLARS GO TO PAY HOOKERS, LIMOS, PLANES, CORPORATE WELFARE AND TO THE RICH. MOST OF IT GOES TO THEM.

TIME WILL TELL IF BARACK WILL REACH DOWN AND HELP THE MOST HURTING PEOPLE IN THE LAND - BLACK PEOPLE. WE VOTED HIM IN AND WE CAN VOTE HIM OUT.

When you do your 1040 tax return notice how much federal and state taxes are taken out of your check. It is enormous. Then just sit down and add up all the taxes you paid since you been working and shopping, etc. When you buy a car you pay about $800 to $1000 in taxes just for that. Every time you spend $100 at the grocery store shopping you pay the govt $7. If you make $40,000/year and own a home, chances are you pay about $10,000 or more every year in taxes. Over a 10 year period when the stock market was good, if you had invested $10,000 for 10 years you might be close to being a millionaire. Instead you give your money to the govt and when you ask for help when you get laid off they make you feel like a freeloader!!!! WAKE UP!

If blacks aren’t going to get govt help when we need it, WE SHOULD REFUSE TO PAY THESE TAXES.

I WANT MY TAXES TO GO TO HELP MY BLACK PEOPLE, AND MYSELF IF I NEED IT.

Definately the Oscar de la Renta one! It’s so elegant, yet not too over the top. And judging by Michelle’s style of clothing, I’m sure that’s what she’ll go with. The kids look cute in that one too.

oh BTW, kente cloth is made in GHANA, West Africa, not Kenya or East Africa. Get it right please.

Oscar de la Renta and Marc Jacobs are the best.

SMDH @ that Bomb Pop (the popsicle) suggested by Betsey Johnson, and that damn super hero cape by Christian La Croix, although he made up for it with his purple gown.

Why would a designer design a cocktail dress for a formal BALL?

she will look very beautiful with whatever she wears. i mean i don’t know any of these designers. she will be graceful classy beautiful and all that. me myself i am truly not trying to be funny but its all about her and her class. i’ve never been a name brand person. so i think even if she found something in walmart kmart or if she truly wanted to splurg jcpenny’s she would be beautiful. and don’t forget the girls.

Christian Lacroix #2 & Betsey’s are tough…Oscar da la Renta’s is nice too but more vibrant colors would be better

did some idiot mention ‘house of dereon’? this person must be crazy! beyonce is tacky and her nother is a drag queen PLUHEEZE this is the forst lady we are talking about here…trashy tina knowles isnt worthy! my choice is MICHAEL KORS!

WHAT EVER SHE WILL CHOOSE WILL LOOKED NICE ON HER AND HER KIDS WILL LOOK CUTE. I WILL GO FOR A SAMPLE DRESS NOT TO OVER THE TOP BUT CLASSIE. THATS WHAT SHE IS A CLASSIE FRIST BLACK WOMEN IN THE WHITE HOUSE OR BLACK HOUSE LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LOLOR GREEN HOUSE LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marc Jacobs, Nicole Miller, Diane Von, Michael Kors, Monique Lhuillier, Elie and Badgley could all work but I’m loving the Oscar De La Renta gown (nice sketch too) but if it’s gonna be really cold then the white Chanel Suit would be a lovely choice also. The Christian Lacroix gowns are too over the top, not feeling them.

YES!!! MARC JACOBS!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!! (In a different color though…)

I like the Monique Lhuillier design.

It manages to be dramatic and encompass the grandeur associated with a high society ball, but it still manages to portray an elegant and clean aesthetic.

Im sure whatever it is, she’ll look good.

CAHNEL CHANEL CAHNEL ALL THE WAY!!.

my vote goes for Oscar….but someone said that she’d be outside in DC weather….maybe he will make a coat for her if chosen

I like the fact that two of the designers on here are black. Rachel Roy (Dame Dash’s wife) I just finished viewing her Spring 09 collection….It’s nice but to pricey and she is not up there yet…secondly Tracy Reese, in which I am not feeling her designs at all. However, it would be nice if she went with an American Designer, but both of my picks are unfortunately Haute Couture, Christain Lacroix, but if she went all out american, then Marc Jacobs would be the “American” choice first up and then Oscar De La Renta, because of the lovely designs for the girls!.

Oscar’s and Michael’s are my top picks.

Oscar de la Renta, and Chanel got this in the bag!

I think she’ll look pretty in the Michael Kors or Monique Lhullier dress. The BM is cute too!

The Marc Jacobs gown, is differently for the First Lady.
Charisse

Betsy Johnson dress is the business. She is gonna look fly in whateva she wears. I can’t wait to see what she picks.

All the sketches are nice but that Christian L #2 is FIYAH! She’ll look GRAND regardless of her selection!

Hands down the RED DRESS! Monique Lhuiller gown! Oh my goodness that gown is BEAUTIFUL!!!! That one is my favorite!

Love the Badgley Miscka, Tracy Reese, Carolina H., Marc Jacobs and the blue Christian Lacroix coat–fierce!

Michelle is going to be fly in whatever she chooses, she just got it like that!

The Oscar De La Renta Is Best…The Others Are a Lil Much.. But She’ll Be Fly In Wuteva She Chooses

Speaking of Michelle Obama and her girls –what do suppose she’d do if it were her girls that a white social studies teacher bound bu their hands and feet and then told them to crawl on the floor? That is exactly what happened to two 13-year-old 7th graders in White Plains, N.Y. The teacher was conducting a history lesson on American slaves and bound the girls with duct tape. I am amazed at how many reporters, columnists and bloggers have gone out of their way to protect the teacher, commenting that she just could not have meant any racism, that she must have had good intentions, she was just naive and misled in this particular lesson on slavery. Oh Puleeze!

I believe there was indeed racism, but even if there was not intended racism, this teacher should be fired for her stupidity! How could any responsible adult, let alone a teacher with whom we entrust our children, not realize that this was inapproprite and hurtful. If I had a child in her classroom, I would yank her out of there until the teacher was fired and replaced. And if the teacher is merely moved to another school, it will not be acceptable. That’s what the Catholic Church has done for decades — move pedophile priests to new parishes, only to defile more children.

Ethic Soup blog has a good article on this subject. To read and comment, go to:

http://www.ethicsoup.com/...o-teach-slavery.html#more

Sharon McEachern

Amazing sketches from Oscar de la Renta and Christian LaCroix

The Monique Lhuillier and Michael Kors dresses are beautiful

The Oscar de la Renta is gorgeous…also like the Badgley Miscka and the Tracy Reece…would love to see her in the red Monique Lluiher too…First Lady Obama is tall and lean so she’ll look good in anything she wears.
Move over Jackie O!

@13 u got the right idea..f*ck patriotism..so its patriotic to wear a design frm a designer who isnt american?? These designs are nice but i doubt she plans on wearing any of these..I know Michelle Obama would surprise everybody

Michelle not from Kenya, so I don’t know about the African look, although if it’s done right it COULD look like something. For the Euros, I’ll go with Chanel, the Mischka dude, or maybe Oscan De La Renta, although Oscar’s dress has a bit too much clevage for this type of event. My favorite is the Chanel. It would look awesome on her.

Rachel Roy’s design sucks…so plain. I could’ve drawn that myself.

120. KYS,

The suggestion is that she get sketches from other parts of the world. Kenya just happens to be where her husband’s father was born. A strong connection to Africa! As for the “African look”…what exactly is that? I think most of you have no idea about the talented designers in the fashion world beyond Europe. Everything in Africa is not made from Kenta cloth.

I bet you would not want to see her jewelry made in Africa either, when in fact…that’s where most diamonds come from…not Italy! Africa has more to offer that you think and its about time that we stop giving all our money to Coach, Louis, Dune, Chanel, and Prada.

Asians and Mexicans circulated their money many times within their own communities before it goes to Boston, Ohio, and finally to Germany or Europe. Blacks get paid and put their money right back into the hands of the…oppressor. We don’t produce any fashions except when or name is used for marketing purposes. Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and the Williams sisters all rely on Nike to produce their brands.

I’m sorry, there are already enough Marc Jacob and Chanel gowns showcased from past first ladies. Forget Oscar and Furstenburg. Just look at the last names of all these designers…Herrera, Tahari, Lacroix, Rodarte, LHuiller, Mischka, Renta and Posen! Where’s are the Washingtons, Chinyeres, Okafors, and Jones?

M. KORS IS MY BOY.
LUV HIM.
OH YEAH,
MOS DEFF LIKE BADGLEY’S
IS CUTE TOO.
OH NOT TO MENTION CHRISTIAN L.
SHE’S GONNA LOOK SOO FLY.
I WONDER WHO SHE’S GONNA CHOOSE TO BE THE DEISGNER FOR HER DRESS.
SHE HAS SOOOOOOOO MANY CHOICES MAN.
I’D BE PULLIN’ MY HAIR OUT.
LOL
SIKE NAH.

“We don’t produce any fashions except when or name is used for marketing purposes. Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and the Williams sisters all rely on Nike to produce their brands.”

Venus has her own line of clothing(ELEVEN),though it isn’t doing well,but she hasn’t worn Nike for a long time. I

123. HALCYONC,

Here’s my point…! Basically, the manufacture (Reebok) uses Venus’s name to market their product. She, Micheal and Tiger don’t produce the line. Eleven is made by Reebok, so she get a small percentage of the sale.

The person who designs the first ladies gown will reap great benefits…far beyond someone using their name. Anyhow, I don’t claim to know the fashion industry like you ladies, but I know the business world and if you’re not producing…you’re consuming! We’re on the consumer end of everything we use. When will we become producers.

In America, we’re consumers for their food, clothes, homes, cars, insurance, water and power. Everything we need to survive, we buy from someone without Afro- connections. You can buy Chinese food, tacos and pizza in every hood in America. We eat food from other cultures, but they don’t touch ours. We wear their clothes, but our designers can only sketch “GARB”!

oscar, zac posen, or marc jacobs.

1. Oscar (for the girls)
2. Chanel for Michelle

tie btween monique and nicole

Michelle would look fab in both the Michael Kors and Monique Lhuiller. I love them both.

Aint nothin cute about Michelle lol, and i’m just stating the facts of which i see!

i like the betsey johnson one, its different and unique we need something fresh to the table although i like Monique Lhuiller but ol lady allready wore red, and black so thats out the table.

xoxo betsey

everyone but betsey johnson. i luv her ass a designer but looking at that sketch made me cringe

I totally agree with #2.

@MEAT…thx…I didn’t know that…I thought it was her line of clothing….I know she was wearing Reebok even after they cancelled her contract,so I loved the idea of her having her own line instead of waiting for someone to offer her one…with that said,she’s the only one on tour with her own tennis gear…that is a big deal IMO…*shrugs*

My top three picks are Monique Lhuillier, Michael Khors and Nicole Miller. A very honorable mention goes to Oscar De La Renta, love that dress also and the dresses for the girls.

@133. HALCYONC,

In a sense…Reebok and Eleven are competitors. They strive for the same market share. Bottomline though, Reebok can’t lose! And, like you said, Venus’s designs aren’t doing well. Just like Michael and Tiger Wood products will never exceed the original Nike gear. Its the same manopoly that Marc Jacob and Chanel’nem have on the fashion world.

At it’s most basic level, looking to Africa may be the only way for black Americans to think outside of the box. Otherwise, we’re sold…hook, line and sinker.

@ Meat

The Kente cloth is from GHANA not Kenya or Nigeria.

Why the fuss over what she wears, focus on the bigger picture people!.Your President is Black!

A Ghanaian Sista

@136. Malaika, Is it true a Ghanaian sista can make love all night? lol!

Anyhow Sis, I was not the one who prescribed Kente cloth to Kenya or Nigeria! That was Lis or somebody else. I only wish that Michelle would consider sketches and designs from Africa. From anywhere or anybody of color from the motherland. I know the stereotype on African fashion. It is more than the cultural limitations that most Americans have.

You asked why the fuss? The big fuss is that “change” in the US will be faught on every front. Even though we have a black President, he will be controlled and challenged everytime he or Michelle opens their mouths. You’re right, this is a small matter, so why status quo?

Michelle was all but arrested when she said she was proud of this country for the first time in her life. Before that, I didn’t know pride in the country was a law! She got real quiet after that…for months. Likewise, Jeremiah Wright had to chill from preaching the gospel. America and Europe have a way of manipulating everything.

Now, as a Ghana woman you should know, just because a leader is black, don’t mean he has the peoples interest at heart. And please don’t forget, a black President and First Lady is just a deposit on the cure for America. We still have to discuss the down-payment, principle, interest, closing and insurance…! And, late fees!

Y’all just don’t know how much America has contributed to the world’s problems. Its like Jeremiah said…Naw, Naw, Naw!

The Oscar DeLa Renta is elegant and classy-which is Michelle; The Chanel is elegand, yet simple. I love the Monique Lhuiller-fashionable and elegant=Michael Kors is classy and elegant- I think she should wear them all.

Michael Kors or Monique Lhuillier

She would be so amazing in the marc jacobs. The color is perfect and she shouldn’t be in something that’s really out there. It’s just not her style.

i LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEE rodarte.so freaking cute.and if she don’t wear that one then oscar de la renta.or i’ll be sad because those two are fly.and malia and sasha’s are cute too

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I’d like to see her in a silver or gold gown.

something simple and elegant…

Yes! this 20th, I cant wait what Mrs Obama will be wearing! All of the illustrations look amazing! I wish I could draw like Christian Lacroix. That said, I saw a lot of cool fashion jobs opening at http:// jobstaxi.com