Michelle Obama Is The Fourth Black Woman To Grace Vogue’s Cover
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1:00PM, Wednesday February 11th 2009
It’s official: Michelle Obama is a Vogue cover girl. The March 2009 issue, which will hit newsstands next week, features the first lady on its cover wearing a Jason Wu dress (the same designer who created her inauguration night gown). Inside the magazine, Obama is pictured at the Hay-Adams hotel in Washington, D.C., wearing a Narciso Rodriguez dress and a J.Crew ensemble. While a number of first ladies have been featured in the so-called fashion Bible, starting with Lou Hoover in 1929, Hillary Clinton is the only other one to make the cover, in 1998. But perhaps what’s more exciting than Obama being the second first lady to be on the cover of Vogue is that she is the fourth black woman to be featured on the cover in the magazine’s history.
The only other African-American women to grace the cover since the magazine was founded in 1892 are Oprah in 1998, Halle Berry in 2002, and Jennifer Hudson in 2007. It’s wonderful to have such a smart, beautiful woman in the spotlight, and I actually agree with a magazine cover line for once; Michelle Obama is “The first lady the world’s been waiting for.”
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chloe
wrote on February 11 2009 @ 02:22 pm: [report]
michelle obama’s pretty awesome, but seriously vogue, it’s 2009 and you’ve only had 4 black women on your cover? why is this magazine still popular/relevant
Croutons
wrote on February 11 2009 @ 02:24 pm: [report]
Only fourth in 116 years? That is f’ing pathetic. Hey Vogue - drag your snotty, anorexic asses into the 21st century. (Or even the latter half of the 20th century.) And do it NOW, or I’ll pin you down and forcefeed you carbohydrates until you get an unsightly cellulite heiny dimple that decimates your self esteem and makes you take up cutting!!!
ballhawk
wrote on February 11 2009 @ 03:20 pm: [report]
Wow, she looks amazing!
melloe
wrote on February 11 2009 @ 03:54 pm: [report]
Did they do a whole fashion spread featuring her too? I’d love to see that. Only the fourth black woman in all these years?! I guess there’s no hope for Asians, huh…
Amelia
wrote on February 11 2009 @ 04:06 pm: [report]
@melloe I saw some of the photos from the spread on The Today Show this morning and yes, they definitely will be featuring her in multiple pages of the magazine. Including one where she’s wearing a pretty sweet J. Crew ensemble.