Suzanne Mubarak's Summery Style: What We Can Learn From Egypt's First Lady (PHOTOS)

Temperatures in Cairo, where President Obama delivered his address to the Muslim world this morning, hit 100 degrees today with a low of 72. So it's good that Egypt's first lady Suzanne Mubarak knows how to dress for the heat, with a white suit for every occasion.

Whether she wears her light-colored skirt and blazer with a chunky necklace, a dark camisole, a thin scarf or dark sunglasses, Suzanne has a stellar summer style strategy: she keeps her clothing simple and selects accessories that speak for themselves. See below.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • White Suit #1: Meeting with France's First Lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy on July 14, 2008.

Comments

[nickdoyle]

01:22 AM on 06/08/2009

H.ow hard can it be to just get every white in her size. A NO -BRAINER.

[la burnt french toast]

04:38 PM on 06/07/2009

I hope Michele Obama reads this post. She can take a few tips from Suzanne. Shoot, we all can. She's quite the dresser.

[Lozange]

10:27 PM on 06/06/2009

The first suit is not white. Black would be best suited now after the recent death of her grandson.

[Pleneras]

11:09 PM on 06/07/2009

Why? She's not Catholic? Besides Catholics in Spain use to marry, and many still do in black. Different cultures don't follow the US you know, especially since their country is thousands of years older.

[GYRainforest]

04:50 PM on 06/06/2009

Mrs. Mubarak is an elegant dresser. Mrs. Obama would do well to follow her style, and stop trying to play hip.

[Kit]

05:45 PM on 06/05/2009

who designed Carla's suit - love it!

[Pleneras]

11:10 PM on 06/07/2009

Carla can dress! She got great taste in fashion.

[JZ735]

02:56 AM on 06/05/2009

Why do we need to be concerned about how Ms. Mubarak, Michelle or Carla Bruni dress? This kind of trivia is as dated as a Miss USA pageant...old school sexist BS that needs to end.

[NevaforLeadership]

09:09 PM on 06/04/2009

Very smart, well put together and refreshing.

Refreshing without the hide-the-woman Muslim scarves and robes.

[Pleneras]

11:11 PM on 06/07/2009

You ever lived in a country where the sand storms can scratch your eyes out? Don't confuse the Taliban with Islam. Each country is different.

[MIKEinNYC]

05:15 PM on 06/04/2009

Big deal. The wife of Egypt's unelected dictator know how to dress.

If my wife had married a dictator who looted his country's treasury, she's look just as cool.

[NevaforLeadership]

09:19 PM on 06/04/2009

This is not the right thread, but Egypt's form of government is not a dictatorship.

[MIKEinNYC]

09:27 PM on 06/04/2009

So how come their leader is an unelected dictator.

He calls himself "president" but do you remember him getting elected?

If so, when?

Who ran against him?

It's not cool to talk against him because we like him but we can call a spade a spade,,,,,, so to speak.

[JZ735]

02:55 AM on 06/05/2009

HELLO?

[Pleneras]

11:11 PM on 06/07/2009

And what's Bush and Cheney?

[JeanUK]

04:50 PM on 06/04/2009

White much?

Last skirt suit was best.

[MsIrisMG]

11:44 PM on 06/04/2009

Common sense in 100 degree dry heat.

[Bafun]

12:08 AM on 06/05/2009

right

[Pleneras]

11:12 PM on 06/07/2009

They don't know any better... I bet they never left the country.

[Ms Fu]

03:35 PM on 06/04/2009

The best thing to learn from Suzanne Mubarak is that even when your husband's an authoritarian dictator, that it is still okay to dress in style. Please.

[LovesMusicLikesToSing]

03:34 PM on 06/04/2009

She looks nice in each of her outfits, but I would get incredibly bored wearing the same color and style so often. Part of the fun of fashion is the color combinations, the cuts, the patterns, the designs -- all of which add to the "look" of the outfit.

[mikefina]

03:33 PM on 06/04/2009

She has the blood of thousands on her hands--how does she keep her clothes so white? Woolite?

[Ms Fu]

03:39 PM on 06/04/2009

I know right? Why would HP focus on a dictator's wife?

[nefertiti]

05:02 PM on 06/04/2009

Thank YOU . You seem to know about Mubarak notorious prisons .

[mikefina]

05:36 PM on 06/04/2009

Yes. Sadly, this page would speak admiringly of Eva Braun if her dress were cotoure.

[jukesgrrl]

03:04 PM on 06/04/2009

See it IS possible to be elegant and stylish it hot weather. No need to be clad in shorts, tank tops, and flip-flops 24/7.

[ElsaIndy]

01:07 PM on 06/04/2009

Mrs. Mubarak looks elegant and beautifully groomed. She has good posture.

[Kit]

01:01 PM on 06/04/2009

Laura's suit is the best of the bunch, frankly. Well-tailored and simple.