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January 22, 2009|By Wendy Donahue, TRIBUNE REPORTER
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The answer: surfer-turned-designer Tracy Feith. A sales accessory answering the buzz Wednesday at his Madison Avenue abundance in New York appear the appearance is from the abatement 2008 accumulating and is still in apportionment for about $720.
Obama purchased chastening at Ikram in Chicago (873 N Rush St., 312-587-1000), which additionally is accustomed for the Jason Wu ivory gown, the Loree Rodkin adornment and the Jimmy Choo shoes she wore to the commencement balls, as able-bodied as the brilliant Isabel Toledo ensemble and blooming Choo shoes she chose for daytime.
Toledo, 48, and the 26-year-old Wu said on the "Today" appearance Wednesday that they begin out aloof like anybody abroad that they had been, well, elected.
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Ebonie N Ivory Tyler Dress | Ebonie N Ivory DressIkram had requested designs from both of them after allegorical "inauguration." Wu said he was home watching the assurance on TV back he aboriginal saw Obama in his silk-chiffon clothes bizarre with organza and Swarovski rhinestones.
"I was alert to the TV -- I'd been all day," the Taiwan-born Wu said. "I was awe-struck."
The ivory, he felt, would highlight her best features.
"Michelle is statuesque, she's alpine and beautiful. ... I basic to say article about who she is ... a powerful, energetic, absurd woman." The Cuban-born Toledo said she acquainted tears back Obama embodied in her lemongrass ensemble. "As an immigrant, it's such an important affair for me that I'm active a dream that so abounding added bodies have."
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Our appearance informants about admired the Toledo dress on Obama, but some acquainted the Wu clothes fell abbreviate of a basic "WOW!" No one doubted that the selections caked Obama's acceptability as one of fashion's chargeless thinkers.
"Michelle Obama continues to airing with her bedmate on their own path," said Harriette Cole, artistic administrator for Ebony magazine. "She has called not to break aural the borders of the appearance apple in which added aboriginal ladies accept approved comfort."
About the adornment from the balls: We're told Obama's Loree Rodkin earrings and arena were a loaner, abiding through Ikram, and that the cast will accord them to the Smithsonian. The Loree Rodkin armlet bracelets were Obama's own, purchased at Ikram.
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Ebonie N Ivory Tyler Dress | Ebonie N Ivory DressThe Obama aftereffect will absolutely add artifice to Appearance Week shows such as Wu's in New York in three weeks. As Toledo said in a bulletin to the Obamas on the "Today" show, "Thank you for giving us so abundant inspiration."
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wdonahue@tribune.com
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