Isabel Toledo

First lady's outfits get mixed reviews

Toledo Blade | Fri, Jan 23

Fri, Jan 23 Obama got better reviews, overall, for her noontime ensemble, a dress and matching overcoat by Cuban-American designer Isabel Toledo. Made of satin-backed Swiss wool "guipure" lace - an expensive fabric used in couture - it was dotted with tiny mirrors that gave the fabric a subtle shim...

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11 Months Ago, Gothamist says (in Inaugural Fashion: Isabel Toledo for Michelle, J.Crew for the ...) First Lady Michelle Obama, who must save the American fashion industry (at least, according to the NY Times), did not disappoint with her first outfit of her husband's administration: She wore a "lemongrass yellow" Isabel Toledo dress ...