More Cake?
goes with your tea
Desiree Rogers, the new White House social secretary, caused a bit of a stir recently when she appeared at New York’s Fashion Week shows, sitting next to Vogue Editor Anna Wintour as she took in the latest from designers Carolina Herrera and Donna Karan.
...New York magazine quoted a White House aide saying, “Desiree was in New York on a fact-finding mission. She’s acting as a cultural liaison for the White House; she’s researching fashion and music.” ...An aide explained that first lady Michelle Obama “has taken a particular interest in showcasing the work of young up-and-coming designers who have chosen fashion as their path and who are artists in their own right and who are introduced at places like Fashion Week."
“Young up-and-coming designers?!?” Donna Karan started selling clothing in 1962 [age 14] and started working for Anne Klein in ‘68. Carolina Herrera [b. 1939] started in the mid 80’s and Marc Jacobs in the early 80’s.
Rogers was also treated to lunch at the chic Four Seasons by the interior decorator Michael Smith. [the man chosen by the now-departed Merrill Lynch Chief Executive Officer John Thain to handle Thain’s notorious $1.2 million office redecoration project] President Barack Obama condemned that sort of excess, but then hired none other than Michael Smith to spruce up the White House. And then Smith honored Rogers at the Four Seasons.
It’s the Circle of Life Bullshit.
And this is the outcome of all that “fact finding?”
“... She’s acting as a cultural liaison for the White House; she’s researching fashion and music.”
Does this not strike you as somewhat [i.e., highly] ridiculous?
Forget about the silliness of the task. It makes it sound like the White House is newly-arrived on the planet and wants to find out how the aboriginals [i.e., us] dress and sing.
The pinstripe suit is a bit unfashionable - “so-o-o 1960s”. Or “so-o-o-o Chicago 1940s”.
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Posted by Jen on 03/03/09 at 07:04 AM
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