New York Magazine via Michelle Malkin -
The Black Artists Association is upset with our new First Lady for not wearing clothes by African-American designers. BAA Cofounder Amnau Eele, who was a runway model for Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, and Bill Blass, told WWD, “It’s fine and good if you want to be all ‘Kumbaya’ and ‘We Are the World’ by representing all different countries. But if you are going to have Isabel Toledo do the inauguration dress, and Jason Wu do the evening gown, why not have Kevan Hall, B Michael, Stephen Burrows or any of the other black designers do something too?” Eele plans to make a formal appeal to Michelle’s office. WWD adds:
Asked if perhaps the First Lady isn’t looking at the world colorlessly, Eele said, “It’s one thing to look at the world without color but she had seven slots to wear designer clothes. Why wasn’t she wearing the clothes of a black designer? That was our moment.”
This is the stupidest thing I have read today. Kudos to Michelle Obama for not basing her fashion choices on a racial quota.
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1 Comment
January 28, 2009 at 3:18 pm
they had every reason to expect a Black designer’s clothes to be chosen as she thinks in terms of Black and White as her undergrad paper at Princeton indicates. But then maybe she would have had to pick a White designer…Quelle horreur!
Now I understand the choices of Cuban and Asian….
She’s gaming it…