In what the Daily Mail hailed as a “fashionable appearance” to discuss her upcoming book in an interview with Sex and the City actress Sarah Jessica Parker, former First Lady Michelle Obama took the stage at the Barclay Center Wednesday night draped in a dress the color of creamed corn and...well, a pair of thigh-high glitter boots.
Excuse me - a pair of $4,000 designer thigh-high glitter boots.
I’m not exaggerating. These were the boots.
Both the dress and its interesting accompanying footwear were made by Balenciaga. And if you fancy the dress, too bad - it's not yet available for purchase.
Now, I don’t mean to be petty. Honestly, I don’t typically give two rips what Michelle Obama wears, and that’s if I even notice that she’s speaking somewhere. If she’s sporting the latest Givenchy gown or stomping around in a potato sack with garbage bags tied around both feet, it’s not going to impact my day in the slightest. I also didn't hate every outfit the woman wore while her husband was in office, regardless of how I felt toward his politics.
But I can’t help but notice that this so-called “fashion icon” in her butter-stick frock and thigh-high heels that look like they were vomited off a 5th-grader’s Lisa Frank backpack seems to still be gracing the cover of nearly every women’s magazine on Planet Earth, while Melania Trump, who’s been the epitome of class and elegance in her nearly two years as first lady, is still being snubbed by every major publication two years into her husband’s first term.
In fact, far from being crowned a queen of fashion, the former supermodel has been openly ridiculed for going so far as to wear designer heels.
Regardless of how you feel about Obama's latest footwear, it can't be denied that the media’s continued love affair with Mrs. Obama’s "style" and repeated snubs at Mrs. Trump’s elegance have far more to with their choice of husband than their choice of designer duds.