Michelle Obama Dons Prabal Gurung Dress For 2011 Governors' Dinner (PHOTOS)

UPDATE 3/10:

The White House Flickr stream has uploaded a photo that offers a better glimpse of the gown. It looks very promising indeed.

Previously 2/28:
While a little thing called the Oscars was taking place on Sunday night in Los Angeles, the Obamas were hosting a black-tie event of their own: the annual Governors' Dinner in Washington. During his toast, the president even deadpanned that some guests "may be confused and think this is the Oscars. There are some similarities....Everyone looks spectacular, and the second thing is if I speak too long the music will start playing."

One big difference? At the Oscars we could see all the dresses, but, to our great pain, there exists nary a full photo of the first lady in a custom-made chartreuse Prabal Gurung gown. Painful for us, because from this tiny little glimpse it looks so, so promising.

Gurung's office sent us this runway image of the dress--just squint your eyes and imagine it in chartreuse, longer, and on the first lady. Not too shabby, right?

This isn't the first time Mrs. Obama has worn Prabal Gurung: see her visit to the Smithsonian last March to donate her Jason Wu inaugural gown and then there was that rouge stunner at the 2010 White House Correspondents Dinner.

Comments

[db08]

04:18 AM on 03/14/2011

The FLOTUS looks absolutely gorgeous. The guy next to her is not too shabby himself. In fact, he looks very proud to sitting next to her.

[Mary Sue Mc Cormick]

07:55 PM on 03/13/2011

She looks as good in a JCrew as she does in a designer gown!

[GorgyPorgy]

11:05 PM on 03/12/2011

Should we portray the first family as rich elitist, when most of their constituents live below the poverty level.

[DeeFromTheD]

01:41 AM on 03/13/2011

This is coming from GorgyPorgy Bush who said, "It's about the haves and the have mores". You can care less.

[USAwoman]

06:14 PM on 03/12/2011

What is absolutely delightful about our FLOTUS is that she is wears everything with confidence. She can be elegant, casual, and just plain fun with her attire. I love it!!!

[BlackYowe]

03:08 PM on 03/12/2011

Wow, does she look grand!

[AlexandraF]

02:22 PM on 03/12/2011

I wish we could see all of it, it looks beautiful. Thats a difficult color to wear and in the photos, it looks terrific on her!

[applesNpears]

10:05 PM on 03/11/2011

flotus is beautiful. I love the color of the dress. potus looking fine as usual. what a great couple.

[Duppy]

09:02 PM on 03/11/2011

our first lady is definitely fabulous..................always

[PC0207]

11:10 AM on 03/11/2011

Absolutley beautiful!

[butchcliff]

09:08 AM on 03/11/2011

Lovely dress, lovely color, lovely lady.

[French Toast]

02:00 AM on 03/11/2011

Tacky dress. Shame on the FLOTUS.

lol only kidding. Beautiful as always.

[Angie Daniels]

01:11 AM on 03/11/2011

Beautiful as always. Great color for her. I wish we had a better photo, a standing up photo.

[85Percent]

10:19 PM on 03/10/2011

It looks like some of the shoulder fabric width was taken up in pleats so that it does not fall down the arm like in the runway image. I had read that they customized the dress for her (which should always be done by the designers), and this to me looks like a big improvement. Too bad we still don't have more images. She wears bright colors better than most anyone, and the odd thing is that she still looks smashing in all black. Many women don't.

[yill danniel]

08:59 PM on 03/10/2011

Michelle Obama's sense of style never ceases to amaze me. Everything she wears looks absolutely stunning on her. Go FLOTUS!

[IslandGyal]

04:05 PM on 03/11/2011

Calm down, and be honest, not everything . . .

[IllinoisTexan43]

08:26 PM on 03/10/2011

FLOTUS looks absolutely ethereal!