With America’s First Lady Michelle Obama politically visiting U.K. for three days this week much anticipation by fashionistas were set into high gear as three of the world’s fashion icons, with husbands as world leaders and a future king, are bound to meet face to face.
Imagine Michelle Obama meeting with the British prime minister’s wife, Samantha Cameron, known for being a fashionista. Also how is Mrs. Obama going to dress herself in meeting the newly married Duchess Kate Middleton and jive with her accessible style?It was definitely a classic fashion picture history pages for the books.
Michelle Obama, Mobama as she is popularly and fondly called in the U.S., is known for her love of baring her arms, donning high street J. Crew, wearing oversized pearl necklaces, brooches, costume jewelry and belts. She can mix American designers’ works (which includes that of up and coming designers), like Thaakon, Isaac Mizrahi, Michael Kors and even the Olsen twins’ The Row with affordables from Talbots, H&M and Banana Republic. This earned America’s first lady the reputation of being the queen of high-low dressing. She wears designer looks with off-the-rack pieces that made Vogue Editor Anna Wintour comment that every look Michelle Obama comes up with is her very own. The former lawyer is known to generate $2.7 billion in fashion sales and naturally inspires an army of knockoffs and copycats.
Meeting with the newly titled Duchess of Cambridge for a mere 15 to 20 minutes in the 1844 room in Buckingham Palace Michelle Obama wore a shiny, icy-blue Barbara Tfank dress and a swingy pink bolero jacket with a gun-metal slingback stilettos. Kate, whose first official duty since marrying into the British royal family, is this meeting with the Obamas chose to wear a sand-colored fitted bandage-style dress priced at $340 made by Reiss Schola. This dress which sold out in minutes is with a box neckline, asymmetric overlays and a panelled band across the waist. More encounters between these two beautiful and stylish ladies are set to transpire in July when Prince William and Kate visit California.
As with Kate’s fashion biography she already captured the world’s attention with her fashion choices way before she wed Prince William (though her name being with associated with the prince definitely paved the way for this). This fascination on her fashion choices is proven by her being on the Best Dressed List of every imaginable magazine since 2006. The future queen of England had famously favoured designer brands like Issa and Mulberry and is also known for wearing high-street fashion brands like Topshop giving off a simple, stylish look that many designers famously frown at for being not fashion forward.
For a BBQ in the British Prime Minister’s garden Michelle Obama wore a black-and-white belted dress from Tracy Reece’s pre-fall collection which she finished off with matching bracelets. The sparkling detail at the waist provided a nice touch. Samantha Cameron wore a pastel frock by Jonathan Saunders nipped by a bright green belt.
Samantha Cameron is Britain Prime Minister’s 39-year-old wife known for her love of bright sheaths, cinched waist and platform pumps.
For the usual, mandatory English tea with Samantha Cameron at the Cameron’s private apartment at Downing Street Michelle Obama wore New Yorker’s Narciso Rodriguez cobalt-blue coat was she momentarily had taken off to show her vibrant purple wool-crepe by London-based Roksanda Ilincic dress. Michelle Obama accessorized this ensemble with a black belt and black kitten heels. Samantha Cameron had British Peter Pilotto embroidered floral silk dress. Grey pumps completed her look.Read more: http://beyondjane.com/fashion/kate-middleton-michelle-obama-and-samantha-cameron-fashion-face-off/#ixzz1NmOIwIoT
