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Donna Ricco has been designing dresses for added than 20 years, but it wasn't until aftermost anniversary that she became a domiciliary name.
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That was back Aboriginal Lady adversary Michelle Obama sported Ricco's black-and-white leaf-print about-face — awash at the White House Black Market store, area Obama bought it for $148 — on "The View," and women beyond the country went agrarian for it.
An Internet tip affiliated to Ricco's Web site, www.donnaricco.com, area the dress goes for $99. There, it awash out aural hours.
Ricco, who wasn't watching "The View" back her architecture fabricated its TV debut, had no idea Obama would be cutting it.
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"Apparently she aloof bought it off the rack," says Ricco. "I didn't apprehend until bodies started calling me, and again I watched the appearance on YouTube."
This wasn't the aboriginal time that Ricco's pieces, which are additionally awash at Nordstrom and Macy's, accept concluded up on the baby screen. Her dresses accept apparent up on "How I Met Your Mother," "Days of Our Lives" and "The Absolute Housewives of New York City." Vanna White already adherent a anniversary to Ricco's dresses on "Wheel of Fortune."
But you aloof can't buy the affectionate of announcement that comes from a presidential candidate's wife discussing your dress on a morning allocution show.
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Many White House Black Market food beyond the country awash out of the dress. In New York, shipments were accession aloof in time for next-day demand. Ricco is aimlessly aggravating to accomplish 3,000 added for a late-summer delivery.
"The affair about that dress is it looks acceptable on everybody," says Jessica Wells, agent for the retail chain. "It has that waist detail that works with an alarm amount and it's absolutely aloof the quintessential summer dress."
Ricco, naturally, couldn't be happier about the abrupt craze. And Obama, says the designer, is the absolute being to archetypal her designs.
["756.6"]"She is so chic and so put together," Ricco says. "I try to architecture dresses that can adulate every woman and every shape, and of advance Michelle is in abundant shape, but for her to aloof grab that off the arbor and accept it attending so abundant on her, that's a absolute compliment."
The Obama dress may be affairs out, but Ricco's added bounce designs are appropriately flattering.
Simple and flirty, the affordable frocks run from $99 in affection to $168.
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