giovedì 22 gennaio 2009

NANCY E MICHELLE


There are many important issues to discuss regarding Michelle Obama’s dress, including this one: its resemblance to Nancy Reagan’s 1981 inaugural dress, albeit in fluffier form. Both white; both one-shouldered. It’s almost as if someone took Nancy’s James Galanos gown and glued cotton balls on it, like on one of those oak-tag maps showing the natural resources of regions of the U.S. that you make in elementary school. (The hard part is pasting the coal on West Virginia.) How did that happen? Don’t First Ladies call each other the night before to make sure that they’re not wearing the same thing, or at least swing by the Smithsonian? Or was it a homage, like the Lincoln train-stop tour?

da NEW YORKER