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best dressed at the white house correspondents’ dinner

April 30, 2012 in fashion

While the White House Correspondents’ Dinner should technically be for the staff and press of the White House, for some reason it always seems to end up overrun with celebrities. This has two distinct upsides – a more interesting selection of fashion… and more people that we actually recognise for Obama to roast in his hilarious speech (if you haven’t watch it yet, I strongly recommend you do – I was laughing out loud!)

Of all the dresses on the red carpet, I think Ginnifer Goodwin took the biggest risk. She looked fabulous in her off-the-rack H&M gown (which you can buy yourself for $299).

Zooey Deschanel also gets points for her pretty mauve Oscar de la Renta frock, Kate Hudson shone like the star she is in her purple sequined Jenny Packham gown, and Viola Davis looked old Hollywood glam in a one-shouldered, red Amsale.

But how could anyone look past the First Lady? Michelle Obama looked positively radiant in her colourful Naeem Khan gown and in my book, nobody else came close.

Who do you think was best dressed?

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best dressed at the palace

May 24, 2011 in fashion

Today there was a fashion face-off took place between the US and the UK. Representing the motherland was Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and representing the former colony was First Lady Michelle Obama.

It’s nice to see the Duchess is sticking with her favourite high street brands even though she’s now royalty – today she chose a camel bandage dress from Reiss (it’s called Shola and cost £175 but don’t bother looking – it’s already sold out!) Apparently the palace is so large that she has to carry around her purse so she chose an Anya Hindmarch black silk clutch, which matched her high black heels.

The First Lady decided to give the high street stores a miss for her visit, opting for a Barbara Tfank blue brocade dress paired with a pink silk bolero and silver slingbacks. In my opinion, it’s a little too glitzy for daytime at the palace but if anyone can rock it, it’s Michelle.

Who do you deem winner in the best dressed stakes? For me, it’s an easy win for the Duchess.

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in the news: oval office make-over

September 7, 2010 in news

It’s a year this week since I left DC and to mark the occasion (well, I’m choosing to see it that way), Barack Obama has given his Oval Office a make-over.

While the President and his family were on vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, busy bees installed new wallpaper, a new rug, new chairs, lamps and a coffee table.

The new rug features the presidential seal and quotes from two former Republican Presidents – “Government of the people, by the people and for the people” from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and “The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally on the welfare of all of us” from a speech that Theodore Roosevelt gave at the New York State Fair in Syracuse, N.Y., on Sept. 7, 1903.

It’s not unusual for Presidents to change up the Oval Office early in their terms and Obama has thrown out some of Bush’s personal touches, including the old blue and yellow embroidered chairs that Bush and Obama previously sat in with their foreign counterparts for press calls.

Many items have not changed including the Resolute Desk, built from the timbers of a British warship (a gift to President Rutherford B. Hayes that was installed in the Oval Office by John F. Kennedy, and has been used by presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush).

See more at the Huffington Post.

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