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24 of Michelle Obama's best style moments
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- Michelle Obama, who turns 59 on January 17, has long been considered a fashion icon.
- Some of her best looks were by Indian-American designer Naeem Khan.
- At President Joe Biden's inauguration, she wore a symbolic, all-magenta look.
In , Michelle Obama wore a memorable fiery-red dress on election night.
She paired the Narciso Rodriguez dress with a simple black cardigan.
"The dress was utterly flattering with its black criss-cross waist," Verena von Pfetten at HuffPost wrote in , "and the elongating blend of red into black delightfully accentuated her statuesque stature.
Naeem khan dresses michelle obama Pop Culture Halloween Costumes for Politics Congress Extremism. Growing up in India, Khan realized from an early age that he wanted to become a fashion designer after watching his grandfather create complex embroideries for the royal family. Being around politicians, artists, and socialites has certainly helped Khan develop his signature luxe aesthetic.And mostly, it was interesting to look at. Which is something to be said with regards to the usual wallflower role to which First Ladies are usually relegated — a role to which I'd imagine Michelle Obama would not take kindly, dress or no dress."
At the inaugural ball in , Obama stunned in a floor-length white gown.
Designed by Jason Wu, the dress featured organza flowers.
"No details of the dress were released before the balls and Wu did not know that Mrs.
Obama had selected his design, which he intended to symbolize hope, until he saw it on television," according to the Smithsonian's website.
That same year, Obama solidified herself as a fashion icon when she wore a champagne-colored gown to a state dinner.
Obama paired the dress by Indian-American designer Naeem Khan with a shawl.
To a state dinner in , she wore a bright-red gown that stirred controversy.
At a state dinner with China, Obama wore a gown by British designer Alexander McQueen, despite expectations that she might wear a gown by an American designer with connections to China, The Daily Beast reported at the time.
"I like to patronize American designers, and the vast majority of the clothes that I wear are [designed by Americans,]" Obama said in response to the controversy.
"But there are a lot of other designers that have cute stuff, too. I don't think that I'm any different from any other woman, other than the fact that people see what I wear and then they talk about it."
A white gown Obama wore during a trip to London remains one of her best looks.
She wore the airy Tom Ford gown to a banquet with the Queen.
In , Obama wore a simple blue gown but dressed it up with a statement necklace.
Wearing a Marchesa gown, Obama greeted then-British Prime Minister David Cameron at a state dinner.
"First lady Mrs.
Obama always looks so chic and modern," Roksanda Ilincic, who dressed Obama for the event, told NBC News at the time. "I love the addition of texture with the Tom Binns necklace."