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The many plaudits paid to Michelle Obama’s custom-made rose gold Atelier Versace gown, which she wore for her and her husband’s final state dinner Tuesday night, not only set the seal on the sartorial pinnacle of Mrs. Obama’s two-term period as First Lady, but also underscored her own political and cultural ascent.
The dinner took place just after a poll conducted by NBC and the Wall Street Journal was published, revealing that Michelle Obama was one of the most-liked people in American public life.
Mrs. Obama’s final State Dinner dress, said the New York Times, “Solidified her legacy as perhaps the most adept and successful practitioner of the art of political dressing that any administration has seen.”
Mrs. Obama seems real, rooted and recognizable-whether performing Stevie Wonder alongside James Corden in ‘Carpool Karaoke’, or speaking to schoolgirls, or even the skits she’s so natural in, like stalking the aisles of CVS with Ellen DeGeneres-but it is her political passion, clearly and keenly voiced, which is its own most fascinating superconductor.
Without mentioning Trump by name-the ultimate, exquisitely leveled shade-Mrs. Obama made crystal-clear her belief that his words and deeds had shocked her “To my core.”
Mrs. Obama is not her husband’s protector out of duty or expediency, she is his equal and maybe even better.
Mrs. Obama’s oratorical powers were again in full flow at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, w the distance between Melania Trump’s plagiarized words-from Mrs. Obama herself-and Mrs. Obama’s couldn’t have been greater, in which she spoke powerfully of the responsibility for shepherding the nation’s young children over the next four to eight years.
“Mrs. Obama said t was”so much more” she could do outside the White House and role of First Lady, “without the constraints and the lights and the cameras”T’s a potential that my voice could be heard by many people who can’t hear me now because I’m Michelle Obama, the first lady.”
As Mrs. Obama embarks on that next chapter, we should expect her style to match her words: the real made regal.