Michelle Obama Wears $540 Sneakers To Food Bank (UPDATE, PHOTOS)

Michelle Obama and Jill Biden spent their 100th day in Washington bagging food for hungry children at the Capital Area Food Bank. Read more about their visit here.

For the occasion both women went super casual. The first lady wore cropped gray capri pants and a yellow argyle cardigan with silver and metallic pink sneakers. Dr. Biden did preppy chic in a blue and white striped shirt paired with cropped white pants and silver flats.

UPDATE: The first lady's kicks are Lanvin cap toe sneakers, as ID'd by websites TalkingShopping.com and First Lady Of Style and the NY Daily News, and range between $540 and $565 at Barneys.com. The argyle sweater is from J. Crew, of course.

See photos below.

• • • • • • Guess whose shoes...

Comments

[michaleenflynn]

01:33 AM on 05/12/2009

What is UP with the 2-sizes-too-small-sweater and the painted-on pants??

Arrgghh!

[StJames]

04:29 PM on 05/11/2009

Why all the fuss? The sneakers are cute and Michelle Obama can afford them.

[sushi27]

05:46 PM on 05/10/2009

No one ever said she wore cheap shoes (I believe her favorite pumps are Jimmy Chou). When it comes to your feet, you wear whatever FITS, period. Just finding shoes that are comfortable is hard enough!

These shoes are sooo cute and NOW. Go Michelle!

[notthistime]

07:12 PM on 05/06/2009

it is her money. she can spend it however she likes. Even though I don't like the shoes it is her perogative.

[CitizenFarmer]

08:36 PM on 05/05/2009

Somebody jacked her after the speech to get her kicks.

[babyhugger]

02:14 PM on 05/05/2009

it is pitiful that she spent so much on shoes and still looks awful...no class or taste

[michaleenflynn]

01:30 AM on 05/12/2009

Yes, babyhugger - proof you cannot buy either one.

[Bystander]

12:11 PM on 05/05/2009

Wow...just like regular people!

[Barbara Randlett]

09:39 AM on 05/05/2009

I have silver Prada sneakers that cost about $400 six years ago.....but, I would have sense enough NOT to wear them to volunteer.

I'm shocked...the devil is in the details... definitely a NO NO for FLOTUS

Otherwise, I think she looks great and I applaud her efforts in the community.

[debkamaine]

01:07 AM on 05/05/2009

Oh for Pete's sake, RELAX....................she has a SHOPPER, a woman who buys her clothes for her..........I doubt that Michelle has even an inkling as to how much things cost............

Repubs are SO uptight........they HAVE to wear jackets in white house, Michelle shouldn't wear sleeveless dress, now it's a pair of shoes, TALK ABOUT NEUROSIS!!

[RobotoND]

12:00 AM on 05/05/2009

I think its great she has $540 shoes. I think its amusing people with such great sense would make an issue about the expense of Sarah Palins clothes, and think nothing of this. It does seem tough to find consistency from "typical" liberals.

[dreamsugar]

07:10 PM on 05/04/2009

These could have been a gift -- but who cares -- her husband is the leader of the free world. They have a job -- they can were whatever they want.

[ElsaIndy]

06:37 PM on 05/04/2009

I thought MO was all about cheap clothes.....it seems MO has a mixed message. Perhapes she is confused about how she wants to represent herself. It is fine if she wants to wear $500.00 sneakers even to feed the homeless but she needs to get her message straight. I think Ms Rogers needs to pay more attention to these small details.

[LittleSanityLeft]

09:20 PM on 05/05/2009

Mechelle has been mixing expensive designer stuff with cheaper clothes since day 1. Her message isn't mixed, here's the message for those like yourself who obviously haven't been paying attention: "I wear what ever the hell I feel like wearing."

By the way, since when is J Crew "cheap". I've been to their website. Their clothes aren't cheap they just happen to be attainable for a middle class working family who's able to focus on both practicality and style.

[longingforla]

01:50 PM on 05/04/2009

When the Obamas released their tax returns, we saw that they gave about $125,000 to charity in ONE YEAR. While it is not a tithe, it is still a substantial amount for a couple with young kids who earned their money, didn't inherit it. Let her splurge on $540 sneaks if she wants to. They are cute, not like some of the horrendous stuff Cindy McCain spent tens of thousands on.

[Sensiblebg]

06:52 PM on 05/03/2009

Interesting how you all gave McCain a hard time about his $500 italian shoes yet no one is calling Michelle an elitist for having $500 sneakers..

[Esot3ric]

11:57 AM on 05/04/2009

I will concede that this was a stupid thing to do. We even?

[sheikwil4]

03:00 PM on 05/04/2009

Yea, but Michele Obama only has one pair of $500 sneakers, John McCain had about 10 pair of those shoes and Michele may have received those shoes as a gift. She doesn't have to wear everything from J Crew. If she is paying for it with her money, who's business is it any way. The American people don't pay for it. Maybe the President brought them for her as a gift. We don't know where she got the shoes from and it's none of our damn business.

[Val49]

03:57 PM on 05/04/2009

sheikwil4, It will be funny if all of these haters found out that the shoes were given to her by the maker or the store, you know they will do that as soon as they find out who the item is going too.

[Sensiblebg]

10:45 PM on 05/04/2009

So who cares if McCain bought his shoes with is own money? He didnt steal them..

[Mom222]

06:08 PM on 05/03/2009

Don't forget that during World War II, the Queen Mother was widely praised for not only visiting bombed neighborhoods in London but also for appearing in her best finery. Michelle Obama would not be paying Washington's homeless a compliment if she dressed down for the occasion.

[ElsaIndy]

06:39 PM on 05/04/2009

But it is ok to dress down to Great Britain on an official state visit ....wearing J.Crew....

[dreamsugar]

07:11 PM on 05/04/2009

shhhhh -- J. Crew is EXPENSIVE

[jaielaw]

02:44 PM on 05/05/2009

One can be appropriately dressed at any price point. The question should be whether the actual ensembles were appropriate. I found some of her outfits too casual for the specific occasions, but not because isolated pieces were from lower-end designers.