Michelle Obama’s Vogue Cover

February 11, 2009 in Print by deadpix3l | 21 comments

Really Vogue. Is this the best that you could come up with?

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  1. homoneurotic’s avatar

    homoneurotic on February 11, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    i think she looks good. i don’t think mrs. obama would want to do any kind of glam fashion editorial. this is very much her.

  2. deadpix3l’s avatar

    deadpix3l on February 11, 2009 at 2:07 pm

    She looks like she’s grimacing. I also want to run a brush through her hair.

  3. Faggoting’s avatar

    Faggoting on February 11, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    I think it’s fine, it’s Michelle, it’s Anna. What more could you ask for? Like homo says, something more glam would be inappropriate especially considering the current state of things.

  4. homoneurotic’s avatar

    homoneurotic on February 11, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    nobody is talking about how michelle has a weird face. period. her jaw is very masculine. and it’s a hard face to soften by any photog. but yes. a comb isn’t out of the question, but you know what? — that’s just her hair. the vogue retouching team could have slicked her hair back — it looks like an editorial choice to show the whips of hair.

    does anyone know what designer she’s wearing?

  5. homoneurotic’s avatar

    homoneurotic on February 11, 2009 at 3:32 pm

    hill didn’t really look much better.
    http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/original/hillary_hill.bmp

    i don’t think any bush first ladies (not even the twins, as first twins?) made the vogue covers.

    here’s michelle on the cover of newsweek. her hair may be more tame, but my argument stands.
    http://frillr.com/files/images/Michelle-Obama.jpg

  6. deadpix3l’s avatar

    deadpix3l on February 11, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    She might be wearing Jason Wu again. American Vogue covers have been really strange for the past year.

  7. joe’s avatar

    joe on February 11, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    its too safe. but isnt that the point? somber, not indulgent, but pretty, and reassuring.

  8. Faggoting’s avatar

    Faggoting on February 11, 2009 at 4:21 pm

    it’s Wu

  9. Patryk’s avatar

    Patryk on February 11, 2009 at 5:10 pm

    this looks like a cover off of Home & Garden

  10. homoneurotic’s avatar

    homoneurotic on February 11, 2009 at 9:30 pm

    OK. E! just reported that she was wearing Narciso Rodriguez.

    Of course. They can’t really be trusted. They also pronounced it NarsiKo (like Nabisco) Rodriguez.

    grrr.

    @Patryk: Right on point.

  11. homoneurotic’s avatar

    homoneurotic on February 11, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    Also, let’s not forget that Anna Wintour came from Town & Country.

  12. faggoting’s avatar

    faggoting on February 11, 2009 at 10:23 pm

    I think for the first time Vogue’s dry, tired, and and numbing format is finally appropriate. We ain’t going to have Michelle in no Givenchy shot by Terry Richardson.

    Although Obama was….

    http://hypebeast.com/2008/09/barack-obama-x-terry-richardson-photograph/

  13. Olivia Newton John’s avatar

    Olivia Newton John on February 11, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    Ugh. This is really disappointing. Michelle is already a little odd looking but Vogue managed to make her look worse not better. I don’t care for her personally or politically, but I do like to see black women look there best especially on a Vogue cover. I don’t like the angle of her body. I don’t like the Embassy Suites background. The color of her dress is a little blah for her skintone (green or blue would have been better). And I don’t like the type.

  14. faggoting’s avatar

    faggoting on February 11, 2009 at 11:53 pm

    Uh huh, well, it’s Vogue.

    What were we really expecting?

  15. Deadpix3l’s avatar

    Deadpix3l on February 12, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    I totally get that she’s got to be safe. I certainly don’t expect her to be in Gareth Pugh but I am so bored with Annie Leibowitz. I reckon they should have gotten Mario Testino or Steven Meisel to do the cover.

  16. homoneurotic’s avatar

    homoneurotic on February 12, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    LOL. Then the headline could be “blame it on the white house.” Instead of madge’s “blame it on rio” for W.

  17. andy’s avatar

    andy on March 5, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    I think they used the best stylist in Ames, IA for this shoot.

  18. Chloe’s avatar

    Chloe on April 1, 2009 at 4:27 pm

    Michelle Obama is not a fashion icon…. im so sick of fashion mags trying to tout this pathetic notion. Nothing wrong with JCrew, as I have a closet full of it, but it is not fashion news nor does it give me “chic” style.

    She is not Jackie O, nor will she ever be. Vogue, Bazaar, Elle… get real- stick to genuine fashion news.

    Michelle does not take risks, her “style” is very much like any other first lady- boring. Sure, she can dress it up with a brooch or kitten heels, but please, that does not make her a fashion icon.

  19. Beautiful Girls Gallery’s avatar

    Beautiful Girls Gallery on January 3, 2010 at 9:25 am

    I love Michelle Obama! She is so intelligent, graceful, stern when she needs to be and she has a wonderful sense of humor.

  20. arthritislady’s avatar

    arthritislady on January 11, 2010 at 10:27 pm

    I saw Michelle Obama in person and she is really a very tall Lady. She is also a very charming and charismatic woman just like his husband.

  21. homoneurotic’s avatar

    homoneurotic on January 12, 2010 at 2:30 pm

    oooh! that’s very cool. i’ve never met the first lady, but i can imagine she’s a formidable presence. i hope you meant, “her” husband in that last line. :)