Michelle Obama has graced the covers of numerous magazines including Vogue, People and Us Weekly but now there is a special issue magazine entirely dedicated to the First Lady and her forward fashion sense.
'Michelle Obama: 100 Days of Style' features 116 pages of colour photos depicting the First Lady's style.
Brandusa Niro, Editor-in-Chief of Fashion Week Daily (who co-published the commemorative issue), gives Mrs Obama high marks.
"I would say that she is the most true to herself and she's got the most personal style, certainly in our opinion, which is why we created this beautiful book dedicated to her style. It's just amazing because First Ladies usually play it very safe. No wonder, there is so much pressure, but Michelle Obama really decides to be herself. She sticks to the woman she was before becoming First Lady."
Michelle Obama's style is known to mix up designers and store brands and this rather democratic approach to fashion is earning her praise. Niro applauds her open-mindedness.
"The incredible gesture of taking chances and not playing safe and taking some young designers and allowing some young designers who are less experienced, who are less iconic, to dress you, even if sometimes you might miss, you know, the very imperfection and the risk in and of itself, the generosity of this gesture is what I think makes us all in the fashion world love and respect her truly more than any other First Lady ever."
Though she was criticised by some her for wearing a "too-casual" cardigan to meet the queen of England, The Daily's Editor-in-Chief, stands by the First Lady.
"That's a very chic symbol of American style. You would have a Michael Kors dress with a little cardigan. That is so chic. People were talking about how the Queen's meeting she wore a cardigan and I thought that was fantastic."
In addition to her cardigan habit, the Harvard-educated lawyer seems to also have a penchant for belts, pearls and brooches.
Niro says that Mrs. Obama is "much more imaginative with pearls than any other First Lady," and that includes the White House's first fashion icon, Jackie O.
According to Niro, Mrs. Kennedy had sublime style, but Obama has real personality. She plays with prints and patterns, wears bright colours and mixes high-end designers with mall-store finds.
The fact that she is a risk-taker sets her above and beyond.
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