When Wills & Kate met Barry & Shelly: Royal Newlyweds Prince William and his wife, Princess Kate, are back at home after their 10-day honeymoon in the Seychelles Island, and their first order of business as a married couple included hobnobbing with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle. The fashionable foursome met at Buckingham Palace as part of a two-day state trip to the United Kingdom at the invitation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Project Runway fashionisto Michael Kors sees traces of American grace in soon-to-be British royal Kate Middleton.
The designer is a huge fan of the future princess — who is set to wed Prince William in April — and believes she shares the same impeccable taste and flawless eye for fashion as First Lady Michelle Obama.
The Mouseketeers over at The Walt Disney Co. have launched a national multimedia campaign that enlists parents’ help in their quest to raise healthy, happy kids. The “Disney Magic of Healthy Living” Initiative, which includes public service announcements featuring First Lady Michelle Obama and young Disney stars — including boy bander Nick Jonas, aims to help families improve their diet and introduce more exercise into their lifestyles.
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have built a multimillion-dollar style empire on the success of their contemporary clothing lines — The Row, Elizabeth & James, and Olsenboye. But the pint-sized moguls still have at least one major fashion feat to overcome before they’ll call themselves accomplished designers: Mary-Kate and Ashley want to see their designs having from some of the most popularl shoulders in the world — Those of First Lady Michelle Obama.
“I’d love to get Michelle Obama in the Row,” Ashley tells Harper’s Bazaar on the pages of its Fall Fashion Issue. “The simple suits and things. It’s all made in America, so why not?”
First Lady Michelle Obama — Vogue cover girl redux?
Icy Vogue editor Anna Wintour is courting Mrs. Obama for another cover feature on an forthcoming issue of The Style Bible. We hear Wintour hopes to convince the First Lady to appear on the cover of Vogue’s December issue, a honor traditionally bestowed upon an Oscar-nominated starlet.
Michelle made her Vogue debut in a spread shot by Annie Leibovitz in March of 2009 — the issue went on to sell a whopping 560,000 copies.
