Since yesterday’s Michelle Obama fashion post was so popular, I thought you guys might enjoy another one. As I said yesterday, MObama arrived in Spain this week with her mom and her two daughters. The ladies were on a tour to support the Let Girls Learn initiative. They got a great reception in Spain, and Spain’s Queen Letizia came out to support Let Girls Learn and the Obamas. After Letizia and Michelle both made speeches, they did a photo-op stroll at Zarzuela Palace, where they were having lunch. It was a nice moment, especially because Letizia is a fashion-plate like Michelle, and because Letizia seems looser and more comfortable around FLOTUS. Letizia often comes across as rather pinched, you know? But she seemed relaxed around Michelle. I imagine most people feel relaxed around Michelle, she just seems like a nice person. Even Queen Elizabeth felt comfortable enough to put her arm around MObama.
But we need to talk about the fashion! Because Michelle’s dress is bad. And overpriced. Why can’t I stop comparing Michelle to the Middleton women? Earlier this week, Michelle almost had a Middleton-esque Marilyn Moment coming off the plane. And now Michelle is acting Middleton-esque by spending WAY too much on ugly dresses. Many of you though Pippa Middleton’s little summer dress should have cost $60 instead of $1800. So what do you think about Michelle terrible Delpozo dress, which costs $1950? WAY TOO MUCH. First off, it’s just not a good dress. It makes Michelle look thick-waisted, which she isn’t at all. The empire waist is just awkward, the “wings” at the back are terrible and basically this doesn’t look like it should cost more than $100-150. If that. That being said, Delpozo is a Spanish label, and I’m sure Michelle was just trying to honor her host country.
Letizia’s dress was Nina Ricci by the way. It’s a really simple and flattering look, I think.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and Pacific Coast News.
That dress doesn’t deserve you, Mrs. Obama.
Burn the dress and all pictures of it.
Yeah, but it’s that country’s designer so she’s honoring them and the country. She always looks lovely but the dress fits badly.
That said, Malia’s always been cute but when did SASHA get so fierce? She’s looking amazing lately. Not cute so much as distinctive and striking. She grew up really fast.
It really doesn’t.
I think that she looks beautiful in white, and not many women can pull off white – but not this dress. It makes her look frumpy and she is not frumpy.
God, it’s horrible, isn’t it??? She is so beautiful and fit, and this makes her look bulky. She look great in very tailored clothes like the outfit she wore to the Cambridges – pencil type skirts, no pinched-in waists. I don’t think she has a natural waist, same as me, so clothes with a defined waist look terrible on her.
I would have liked her in Letiiza’s dress. I think Michelle is the best First Lady we’ve had in decades!!!
But most of the dresses she wears are not that great. She makes them look good with her attitide, but the dresses she wears are fugly most of the time. She can’t elevate this ine though, this is so ugly.
I appreciate that as a diplomatic representitive of the US she is politely wearing a Madrid based luxury brand. She is a class act.
(Technically, I don’t love the dress and it eventually needs a lot of tailoring to elevate it.)
It’s that high waistline again. Somehow this one looks like formal scrubs.
I can’t fault her for the dresses she chooses overall because I think she goes out of her way to showcase American designers. But I think it’s too bad she hasn’t seemed to find someone who really knows what will work with her shape.
@Esmom,
Hospital bedsheet. 100%.
Agreed Locke. I have always felt her “First Lady style” has not been her true style. Kind of like she has tried to fit into the role sartorically, and unfortunately the style she’s chosen doesn’t work for her. I suspect she’s a closeted minimalist who had a few key core pieces that worked for a lawyer (or private working professional) but not a High profile FLOTUS.
yeah I’m not a huge fan of her clothes either. i think her clothing is fine, sort of preppy and middle america. nothing wrong w/ them (and my style is sort of preppy too) but that is way too much for a dress that looks like a 1950s nurse outfit (sans sleeves). i don’t mind the empire waist though; i think it’s generally a flattering line on most women and hides a bigger waist/hip.
I’ve never liked most of her clothes either, right from that hideous black and red number she wore to the inauguration. She is such a beautiful woman, I wish she picked clothes I thought were as lovely as her.
High-waisted does not work on Michelle Obama. She has a nice figure, but those dresses do nothing to enhance it.
It makes her look pregnant
No, it’s not the most flattering dress she owns. She’s a beautiful woman; I hate to see her in a garment that seems to swallow her whole and adds weight to her trim figure.
Right. It makes her look big when she’s not. She needs to go back to the stylelist and ask if she did something to upset her/him.
That’s my thought, too! It makes her look heavy, and she isn’t. And, WAAAAAY OVERPRICED!!!! Looks like she bought it at JC Penny!
I agree. I thought yesterday’s dress did the same thing. This is just horrific. She’s going to just die when she sees pictures. It looks like she bought it at Old Navy.
I agree the dress is really unfortunate and that bothers me because Michelle is so good at working out and staying healthy and the dress just ruins her figure all together, giving her a marshmallow shape.
That dress looks like it is five sizes too big.
Queen Letizia needs to cut back on the botox.
Oh terrible fitting, it looks like they draped a white bed sheet on her then proceed to make the holes for her head and arms.
Wow, that’s amazingly bad.
She’s such a lovely woman, but she needs to dress for her body and she doesn’t always. I have a friend like that. If she loves a dress and the idea of it – a light, crisp, white dress for summer in Spain, she’ll wear it whether it looks good on her or not. This dress is ill fitting and it doesn’t do her body justice at all. $1900 is more than I can afford, and it’s a lot of money, but a lot of designer dresses start at $3000 and go up, as I’m sure you know. But yeah, this one should have been free.
I wonder about the economics of fashion when it comes to diplomacy like this. As in, is it a way of showing respect that she’s busting out the designer wear and not a $200 J.Crew dress? Letizia is in a Nina Ricci, that isn’t a cheap garment.
It’s not cheap, but it really doesn’t fit her.
I think it’s a matter of her looking appropriate in her role as the First Lady, and it’s always a sign of respect to dress as well as you can for an event.
It goes beyond the concept of “appropriate” here though. I wonder if attire shows a level of respect in this instance – because again, both women are wearing a similarly expensive dress. Which stands out to me even more since Spain was not too long ago considering austerity measures, and FLOTUS is famous for mixing in reasonably priced pieces. I’m wondering if in this instance a dress isn’t just a dress, you know?
I was hoping this was a gift she felt obligated to wear.
Can’t beat her best accessory though. That smile.
Is the FLOTUS pregnant? If not, she needs to burn this dress.
Exactly! This one was misplaced from the maternity department.
Yes. The one time I had to wear a nice dress when I was nine months pregnant was a disaster. I thought I looked ok but when I saw photos I realized it looked like I was wearing a tablecloth. This sorta reminds me of that.
That’s a tongue in cheek question surely!
The dress is ill-fitting and the fabric looks stiff and hard, like you could make a canvas tote bag out of it, but not a flow-y summer dress.
Yeah, as awesome as she looks in a sundress (them guns!!), this is not the one for her! If it weren’t an empire waist it would work, I think. But it’s too much stiff material around her tiny waist. Makes her look about 6 months pregnant…..ooo but an Obaby would be adorable!!!!!
I can’t wait for all these high-waisted, shorter dresses to PLEASE go out of style! I think the only people who can pull them off are school-aged girls and babies, as you say! Ugh
She always looks great but this one should be tossed out and never spoken of again.
Why deny that she is thick-waisted when she clearly is. That’s not a slam, it’s her body. She’s fit and healthy which also includes a thick waist.
Now if you want to say this dress is unflattering, then yes it is. Usually she dresses in a more figure flattering way.
The Secret Service should have intervened on behalf of her boobs. That dang thing made them disappear and turned them into high-tummy. If she were a less respected celeb, we’d be on baby-watch, dang it. This is terrible.
I love MObama, but you’re right, this dress is awful! Still love her though
No, looks too big on her. And why is it $2,000?
I Love Michelle Obama like a Play sister but for a dress to actually give you bad posture?? No No
Terrible. Although she looks BANG in white!
How tiny is Letizia?
I’m as tall as MObama and we’re built similarly and next to Letizia I’d feel like a troll.
But MObama(I love this abreviation!) is not only wearing a white dress,which fits her great but she is also full of confidence while frolicking in the gardens.She’s such an amazing role model and she will be greatly missed.
That is one awful dress. Was it a last minute choice? It looks too tight in the arm holes, and too big everywhere else, like she didn’t have time to have it fitted properly (or better yet, thrown in the trash & a replacement found).
I actually don’t think the cut is that bad, although it could be more fitted I suppose. What’s killing it for me is the stiffness of the fabric.
However, I do love the side-part and hair-length on FLOTUS and of course, that smile.
That’s one of the only times I’ve seen the First Lady look bad. It’s really ill fitting
I met Michelle a couple times the first time
Obama ran for president bc I was a prescent captain for Obama in Iowa during his first run. She does exude just a general niceness and kindness. I obviously don’t know her but she came across as one of the nicest and most sincere people I’d met. By the way, we unexpectedly won our precinct that year. 🙂
It looks like maternity wear. It could be a cute dress, it needs to be cut to her figure a little better.
It’s not a bad concept for a dress, and it is appropriate to the event she attended. However, it’s in desperate need of tailoring! I mean, the front is saggy, the waist is too big. It looks like they didn’t even use her actual measurements when making it! If it could just be pulled tighter a little, and if it had some kind of sleeve (like a 3/4 sleeve, or even one that is halfway between the shoulder and elbow), it would look better. It would have made her look more like her actual size. I don’t get designers why they go to all the trouble of dressing people and then skimp on the the tailoring part!
Terrible. Looks like an ill-fitted $13 dress from Target. Someone should get fired for this tragedy, you really have to work hard at it to make such a fit woman look so frumpy.
I agree with the bedsheet comments. This one was a fail, sorry Goddess.
Overpriced…
Should’ve gone to Desigual if she wanted something Spanish, love them…
It doesn’t help she’s standing beside a tiny woman. I agree with other posters the fabric of the dress appears stiff.
I dislike the dress, but I like that she wore a Spanish label while in Spain.
Whoever designed that dress needs to be burned at the stake.
What is the McCalls Pattern number for this dress?
It’s not great but she’s about so much more than what she wears so she’ll always get a pass from me. The dress aside, her legs in those delicate sandals look gorgeous.
And although I do think a tailored sleek look suits her athletic frame so much better, good on her for not caring and continuing to indulge her obvious love of the frilly and flouncy.
First Lady Obama is the only first lady that we priced out her outfits. Its tawdry and transparent why gossipers do it.
She and her people ask the designer to make some changes to the dress for her, and I wish they didn’t, this is the original version: http://www.delpozo.com/shop/sale1/double-knot-dress
it actually looks beautiful here on the model. the thing w/a lot of these clothes is that you need to be model-thin for them to look great. Mobama is not huge, but she’s not a skinny woman. i think letizia would have looked good in that white and michelle in the red.
It’s now in sale for $1200
Awful dress. She looks like she is wearing a bed sheet. The dress seems to have no shape and makes her look like a big blob. Not her best look but she gets away with it due to her enthusiasm and friendly manner.
Absolutely adore Michelle, but this dress was an overpriced, unflattering disappointment.
Horrible dress. And for the price! Outrageous.
It’s nice that Michelle wanted to go with a local designer. If it was he choice, terrible. Just terrible. If it was the designers choice he is an awful person for sending something so unflattering.
It was ill fitting. Michelle has a great figure and this dress does not show it.
If she had paid $100 for that dress, it would have been $99 too much. It is so unflattering! I can understand she wanted to wear a dress by a Spanish designer as a diplomatic gesture, but surely she could have found something else – a different dress’? A different designer?