Nearly a year ago, we blogged about designer LaQuan Smith and his chain mail stockings. Now, none other than Vogue‘s editor-at-large, Andre Leon Talley, says First Lady Michelle Obama needs to go out and buy herself some LaQuan fashions. So, who’s this designer you may have never heard of? Well, he’s 21, African-American, and his grandmother taught him how to sew when he was 13. “She gave him a sewing machine and he made his whole collection in his grandma’s apartment in Queens,” reports Talley. Seeing as Lady Gaga and Rihanna have already jumped on the LaQuan bandwagon, it’s only fitting the First Lady should follow suit, no? [Huffington Post]
