The look is shorter and feels a little 90s newscast anchorwoman, but I like the chin-length bob she unveiled on Tuesday. It’s a smart look on the 45-year-old First Lady.

But she’ll spend more time on upkeep. Short cuts look zippier,…

Although she’s known for regularly sporting Jimmy Choos in the neighborhood of $600, a few blogsters and citizens have arched an eyebrow at her wearing a pair of Lavin Cap Toe Sneakers with grosgrain ribbon laces that sell for $565 at…

OK, let’s just say it out loud. Michelle Obama is now a style icon because she’s the first lady. If she weren’t, she’d just be a nicely dressed senator’s wife who we might occasionally notice in a photograph and say…

Until this year, only 17 black women had appeared on the cover of the American edition of Vogue which was founded 117 years ago. And one black man, LeBron James, the basketball player who appeared with supermodel Gisele Bundchen.

Now with…

Somewhere hearts are happy. Somewhere people shout, but there is no joy in Debville. New York Fashion Week show is going on without her and the view from the midwest sidelines is bittersweet. Mostly bitter.

As I pine over the useless stack…

Michelle Obama appears on the March cover of Vogue in the classic garment that established her stature as a future darling of the fashion industry — a vibrant sheath dress.

Vogue put Obama on it’s best dressed list last year and…

Love it or hate it, the bow-tied hat will live on in infamy.

Aretha Franklin’s gospel-infused rendition of the anthem “My Country ‘Tis of Thee,” during President Barack Obama’s inauguration played second fiddle to her Swarovski jewel-studded heather grey wool church…

The honeymoon has begun. There was even that awkward first dance. Now, let’s see how long it lasts.

It seemed kind of poetic that the newest full-time residents of the Presidential suite looked like a couple of newlyweds.

Michelle Obama wore a…

Michelle Obama later put on green J. Crew leather gloves to match her pumps Jimmy Choo “Glacier” pumps, but she still looks a bit cold in this regal ensemble by Cuban-born designer Isabel Toledo. It’s being widely noted that she’s…

I think of fashion in sociological terms, so it says a lot that this First Family — particularly the sizeable female component — is expected to single-handedly enrich the franchise of American clothing design.

I wonder how they can ever live…