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U.S. first lady Michelle Obama wore a white, floor-length gown by Taiwan-born designer Jason Wu to balls celebrating her husband's inauguration Tuesday. Barack Obama, the 44th president, looked dapper in what Usmagazine.com said was a custom tuxedo made by Chicago's Hart Schaffner Marx that was accented by a white tie. The Obamas reportedly were expected to attend 10 official inauguration night celebrations. Historian Carl Sferrazza Anthony told The Dallas Morning News Michelle Obama's...
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- On December 19th, Aleksander Titovets' portrait of First Lady Laura Bush was unveiled by the Smithsonian at the National Portrait Gallery. Sasha, as Aleksander is fondly called, has lived in El Paso since immigrating to the United States in 1992. My good friend, Adair Margo, who's Chairman of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, introduced me to Sasha's paintings last year, said Mrs. Bush. Sasha was born in Russia, and he brings an...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Most American women (57%) want the First Lady to take a modern approach to her role by being a visible leader on issues that are important to her. Relatively few women (22%) favor a traditional First Lady who stays behind the scenes in deference to her husband, and there is even less support among women (18%) for a First Lady who is a political partner of the president and involves herself in government policy and decision-making. These results...
French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is suing a clothing company that produced a shopping bag with an image of her posing naked. The Independent reported Saturday that in addition to a ban on the bag's sales, Bruni-Sarkozy is demanding more than $163,000 in damages to be given to charity, her lawyers say. The bag is produced by Pardon!, a clothing chain based on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. The bag shows a nude image of the first lady that was taken in 1993,...
THE headline on the conservative blog, Townhall, stormed: "Book to Smear First Lady's Sex Life." Radar magazine proclaimed: "On the gossip front, the novel doesn't disappoint," adding that its steamy and lurid scenes were "sure to send the White House into a fury." MSNBC.com called the sex scenes "too graphic to reprint." The cover of this fantasy version of Laura Bush's life, "American Wife," is alluring, a woman's shapely figure in a white gown, with white opera gloves and a diamond ring....
MANILA (Reuters) - Imelda Marcos, the Philippines' former first lady, may return to politics next year and run for mayor of the capital Manila, her eldest daughter Imee said on Monday. The widow of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, famous for owning 1,200 pairs of shoes and a vast collection of jewelry that the cash-strapped government is trying to auction, was a one-term member of the lower house of Congress from 1995 to 1998. "My mother has a solid vote in the depressed areas of...
By Hilary Hylton AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Former Texas first lady Nellie Connally, who was riding in the limousine with President John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1963, has died at the age of 87, a family friend said on Saturday. Connally was found dead on Saturday morning at the desk in her Austin home where she had been writing notes, said Julian Read, who was press secretary for her husband, the late Texas Gov. John Connally. Read said she had been in good health and her...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Designer Oleg Cassini, who created gowns for former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and built a major fashion house, died on Friday, his family said. He was 92. Cassini's wife, Marianne, said the designer suffered a broken blood vessel in his head and died in a Long Island hospital. Born in Paris in April 1913 to an Italian countess and a Russian diplomat, Cassini was raised in Italy and began his career in Europe, operating a fashion boutique in Rome. He moved to...
By Elizabeth Piper TURIN (Reuters) - German men took the first two gold medals in the 20th Winter Games on Saturday but the Olympic dream was spoilt for one team member when a sports arbitration court refused to lift a five-day suspension. U.S. speed skater Chad Hedrick also brought a smile to U.S. first lady Laura Bush and started his quest to equal a record medal haul of five golds by winning his first in the 5,000 meters. The speedskating rink shook to Italian screams, though, when...
By Rufat Abbasov BAKU, Azerbaijan (Reuters) - Azerbaijan has an image problem: It is ruled by a dynasty; corrupt officials squander its oil wealth; police beat up protesters and it has just held an election Western observers said was spoiled by fraud. But it has a public relations ace up its sleeve. Enter First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva, fashion icon, charity worker and philanthropist who is bringing a soft-focus glow to the hard face of Azerbaijan's ruling elite. Aliyeva, who trained as an...
