At the Cipriani uptown on 42nd Street, Paula Zahn was hosting the National Design Awards. Honorary patron First Lady Michelle Obama skipped it but sen...
Posted 10.15.2009 | Style
GQ released its list of the most powerful people in D.C., and we're most pleased to see Michelle Obama's unofficial stylist Ikram Goldman, the very wo...
Huffington Post via Politico | Posted 11.11.2009 | Style
Washington D.C. may be home to many staffers, but it's also a hot spot for singles. Politico surveyed the pickings and came up with a list of the most...
Huffington Post via Vanity Fair | Posted 10.20.2009 | Style
White House Social Secretary--and HuffPost readers' pick for Washington's Best-Dressed Woman--Desiree Rogers entered Vanity Fair's 'New Establishment ...
Karin Tanabe | Posted 10.17.2009 | Style
Michelle Obama and her well-dressed entourage came to town and Washingtonians aren't likened to burlap-clad trolls anymore.
Huffington Post via WWD and Michigan Avenue | Posted 09.18.2009 | Style
Desiree Rogers's new Michigan Avenue magazine cover features the White House Social Secretary looking cool in a cream-colored jacket, but some sartori...
WWD | Posted 09.17.2009 | Chicago
White House Social Secretary Desirée Rogers is on yet another magazine cover, this time of her hometown high-end glossy, Michigan Avenue. The magazi...
Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 08.25.2009 | Chicago
In Washington, the relationships among the key players in government are subject to speculation and fascination over whether there is a "Chicago way" ...
Karin Tanabe | Posted 07.20.2009 | Style
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...
AP | JOCELYN NOVECK | Posted 07.20.2009 | Style
NEW YORK — Stepping out in New York City to talk about culture, Desiree Rogers made one thing clear: This White House social secretary doesn't i...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 06.22.2009 | Chicago
Senator Roland Burris and White House social secretary Desiree Rogers were on a United Airlines flight from Washington to Chicago Friday that had to m...
Posted 06.01.2009 | Style
In a lengthy feature article on Desirée Rogers, the Wall Street Journal Magazine writes that the White House Social Secretary has played a powe...
Essence.com | Cynthia Gordy | Posted 05.28.2009 | Style
From invitation design and seating arrangements to celebrity scheduling and band booking, Associate Social Secretary Samantha Tubman helps with the de...
Huffington Post | Anya Strzemien | Posted 05.14.2009 | Style
There was a lot to be happy about at the White House on Monday--Captain Richard Phillips was rescued from Somalian pirates on Sunday, First Puppy Bo O...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.10.2009 | Chicago
"When President Barack Obama moved into the White House earlier this year," the Chicago Tribune's John McCormick reports, "he took several of his fell...
The Huffington Post | Anya Strzemien | Posted 04.25.2009 | Style
She's only been in Washington for a little over two months, but Chicago transplant Desiree Rogers has already been crowned the District's best-dressed...
The Huffington Post | Anya Strzemien | Posted 04.16.2009 | Style
Whether she's on the job or out on the town, White House White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers seems to be developing a signature style: dressi...
Washington Post | Lois Romano | Posted 03.29.2009 | Style
She ran a billion-dollar utility company in Chicago and now is the most influential event planner on the planet, a woman empowered to use 1600 Pennsyl...
Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 03.23.2009 | Style
The Oscars aren't the only hot event this Sunday. The Obamas and the nation's governors will have to TIVo the Academy Awards since they'll all be at t...
The Huffington Post via WWD | Posted 03.20.2009 | Style
*Scroll down for slideshow* The Obamas' stylish social secretary Desiree Rogers took in her first New York Fashion Week on Monday as she attended thr...
Sugar Rautbord | Posted 03.16.2009 | Style
Newly appointed White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers moves like Beyoncé and wears clothes like Tyra Banks.
The Huffington Post | Posted 02.14.2009 | Style
In their February issue, on newsstands January 20th, Vogue profiled incoming White House social secretary Desirée Rogers. In the article, Roge...
New York Times | RACHEL SWARNS | Posted 01.13.2009 | Style
THE holiday bash at the Phillips Collection art museum last week brimmed with bubbly and bold-faced names. But party people in the know breezed past t...
Posted 12.25.2008 | Chicago
Prominent Chicago businesswoman Desiree Rogers will be named the White House social secretary, according to a series of news reports. The 49-year-old...
Crain's Chicago Business | Shia Kapos | Posted 12.11.2008 | Chicago
As a new first family prepares to replace the drapes in the White House, their Washington neighbors are abuzz about the changes coming to what has bec...
WWD | Posted 10.26.2009 | Style