Trends: The Lady Brooch

Gina Pell, 11.11.2009

Content Chief, Splendora Style Culture Radar

The brooch doesn't always have to be worn grazing the shoulder. I pin mine to a silk ribbon or velvet cord and wear it around my wrist.

Narciso Rodriguez: Designer Of Michelle Obama's Election Night Dress Looks Back (PHOTOS)

Rachel Strugatz, 11.04.2009

Fashion and style writer

Narciso Rodriguez was already an established designer and sartorial tour de force before the First Lady was photographed wearing his dresses.

Michelle Obama's Dress: In Defense Of Her Decision

Verena von Pfetten, 11.04.2009

Sr. Editor, Air America Media

Editor's Note: In honor of the one year anniversary of Barack Obama's election, we thought it would be fitting to re-publish this defense of Michelle ...

Michelle Obama Fashion: Spring 2010 Predictions

Carol Han, 10.29.2009

I'll never forget the moment our First Lady, Michelle Obama, walked out on stage during her husband's Inauguration Ball wearing the now-famous sweep...

What Michelle Obama Can Teach Us That Models Can't

Adia Colar, 10.14.2009

Publicist, Freelance Writer

When I was looking at a lot of the models from Fashion Week, I thought the same thing: She looks like girls I met in treatment. She needs to be hospitalized right now. In an inpatient facility. For months.

Laura Smalls: Michelle Obama's Next Favorite Designer? (PHOTOS)

Gioia Diliberto, 09.17.2009

Journalist and author of The Collection

The debut collection of Laura Smalls would suit the First Lady -- or any lady for that matter.

A Glimpse Of Designer Maria Cornejo: A Michelle Obama Favorite

Sabine Heller, 10.18.2009

Freelance Journalist and Creative Consultant

For designer Maria Cornejo -- headstrong, fiercely independent, brilliant, beautiful -- not belonging has made her stronger.

Straight Talking

Lola Jaye, 10.17.2009

Writer

Some believe if you keep your hair natural, you are more in touch with ones "Africanness," whilst those of us who use a relaxer are, let's just say, not that into it.

French Women Don't Wear Shorts

Gioia Diliberto, 09.27.2009

Journalist and author of The Collection

Michelle Obama seems acutely aware of the image she projects with her clothes. It was 104 degrees at the Grand Canyon, and maybe she just wanted to be comfortable.

Forget the Right to Bare Arms, Everyone Is Talking about Michelle's Right to Bare Legs

Mary Hall, 09.24.2009

The Recessionista

Sure, she is the First Lady, but it's been hotter than Hades out there and I think she has the right to be comfortable.

Jason Wu's Office: See What's Inside (PHOTOS)

Rachel Strugatz, 09.10.2009

Fashion and style writer

Designer Jason Wu is a sartorial force to be reckoned with. Usually when someone is described as having shot to fame "overnight," it's used as a figure of speech and not meant literally.

President Obama: Mom Jeans Never Looked So Good!

Mary Hall, 08.22.2009

The Recessionista

I've long said that Mrs. O is a Recessionista with her J. Crew apparel at Buckingham Palace, and now I see Barack is exercising his fashion rights to live chic and cheap.

J. Crew's Jenna Lyons: See What's In Her Office (PHOTOS)

Rachel Strugatz, 08.11.2009

Fashion and style writer

Meet Jenna Lyons, the creative director of J. Crew, the face behind "Jenna's Picks," and the resident visionary responsible for catapulting the retailer into a realm of success never seen by the likes of most brands.

Four Hot Tips for a Cool Summer

Amy Nebens and Jara Negrin, 08.07.2009

creators of poshmom.com

All this effort for just three months of basking in the sunshine? Here are four ideas to make your efforts less painstaking and remind you that it is well worth the trouble.

Political Fashion Smackdown! (PHOTOS, POLL)

Karin Tanabe, 07.20.2009

Managing editor for Washington Life magazine.

It's finally here! The glamazons of government are going head-to-head in the ultimate political fashion smackdown. Sure these friends and frenemies ar...

What's With Our Obsession with Michelle's Clothes?

Linda Buzzell, 07.18.2009

Psychotherapist, co-editor "Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind"

Today's news includes a great picture of Michelle working up a sweat in her garden as she tends her veggies. But folks still insist on commenting mostly on what she's wearing.

First Ladies of Style

Michael Henry Adams, 07.14.2009

Writer, Lecturer, Historian and Activist

Early glimpses betray the private White House living room to look fairly insipid? But, by every other measure, apparently, the only American public...

A Legion of Look-Alike Michelles

Beth Perry, 07.13.2009

Multimedia journalist

Could it be that the widespread fascination with all things Michelle Obama has somehow made the rest of us shine a bit brighter?

First Ladies of Compassion

Michael Markarian, 07.13.2009

EVP/COO, Humane Society of the United States

I was so pleased to see two of the international community's most stylish and glamorous women tell the world unequivocally that their closets are fur-free.

Be Your Own First Lady

Chelsea-Lyn Rudder, 07.02.2009

Executive Director, New York City Council’s Black, Latino and Asian Caucus

A year ago Michelle Obama's detractor's attempted to pigeon hole her into the caricature of "the angry black woman." Today, she is an American icon who is admired around the world.

The White House's Greatest Hostesses

Lesley M. M. Blume, 06.29.2009

Author, journalist, contributing style editor

When the Obamas ascended to the White House earlier this year, many Washingtonians breathed a sigh of relief: after serving a grim eight-year sentence...