Michelle Obama’s style ‘dreadful,’ says designer Vivienne Westwood

[spanone]

and look what vivienne is wearing...a red potato sack...bwahahahahahaa



Vivienne Westwood’s harsh tongue keeps getting her into trouble.

The British designer, 71, who criticized Duchess Kate’s style and makeup earlier this month, has now taken on our first lady. In an interview with The New York Times, Westwood – while discussing her upcoming “Punk: Chaos to Couture” exhibition at the New York Metropolitan Museum – took a few jabs at Michelle Obama’s wardrobe choices, much to the reporter’s surprise:

The New York Times: You must love our first lady, who is famous for recycling her clothes.

Westwood: Don’t talk about her. It’s dreadful what she wears.

The New York Times: What?

Westwood: I don’t want to talk about it. Really, I can’t. She’s a very nice looking lady, but it’s a nonstarter regarding clothes that suit her.



http://www.today.com/style/michelle-obamas-style-dreadful-says-designer-vivienne-westwood-1C8769124

[Dawson Leery]

1. Vivienne Westwood, walking corpse.

[Wait Wut]

2. Who? Oh...this?

http://www.viviennewestwood.co.uk/shop/

Is that her natural hair color or did she steal a wig from the circus?

[spanone]

7. yikes!!!!!

[RebelOne]

10. I checked out her Website and there is nothing

there that I would wear. How could she possibly criticize Michelle's style when her clothing designs are so hideous.

[Cleita]

14. The dresses look like stuff my mother wore back in the fifties. n/t

[laundry_queen]

48. I found them to just be 'blah'

something you could find on a rack anywhere. Basic dresses, pantsuits, skirts - everything is pretty 'normal' looking, nothing is stunning. She must have an enormous ego and is maybe po'ed that Michelle has never worn her boring clothing. That's my best guess for the lash out. She seems like the narcissistic type that would do that.

[OldDem2012]

25. MY EYES!!!! nt.

[warrior1]

3. beauty is in the eye of the beholder

SHE walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meets in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress
Or softly lightens o'er her face,
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek and o'er that brow
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,—
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent. (Lord Byron)

[GoCubsGo]

4. I'll admit that I don't like her thick belts.

But, Ms. Westwood needs to look in the mirror before she criticizes Mrs. Obama's style--or that of anyone else, for that matter. And, I'm not just talking about her fake orange hair.

On edit: Run her name through Google Images. GOOD GAWD!!!!

[pansypoo53219]

38. m obama is just too high waisted for the wide belts,

unless she wore hem on her hips, + she doesn't wanna do that. i understand her desire.

[Tippy]

5. Opinions are like assholes everyone has one....

[whathehell]

6. Oh my...

It looks like Vivian could use a dentist, too.

[blueamy66]

46. My first thought as well

Nt

[Enrique]

8. Michelle should show up somewhere in this

[MinneapolisMatt]

9. HA!

Actually, FLOTUS could probably pull that off...

[whistler162]

23. Nah... maybe Rudy Guilliani could!

[noiretextatique]

18. now that is dreadful!

[Aerows]

31. I'm not sure what part of that outfit I hate the most

altogether it's awful, but the individual components absolutely suck, too. The pouf in the back, my GOD those horrid shoes, the sack dress and the blue glasses. My word. Just wear a hefty bag, flip flops and 4 sunglasses and you'd probably turn out looking better than that.

[REP]

33. (I like the shoes)

A lower platform and I would totally wear them. I also have a terrible sense of fashion which is weird, since I've won design awards (graphic design).

[Aerows]

37. Yikes

I'm very picky about shoes. I'm a lover of boots of all types. I don't care for open toed anything - well, except for very tasteful shoes. Platforms aren't the problem either. Those are just ... icky. All kinds of wrong for my taste.

I don't think I could strut properly in those. That's a must for shoes in my book

[me b zola]

36. zomg, a fart exploded out her ass

[Journeyman]

11. Yeah. I can see that. But then, here's an image from Westwood's current collection of women's tops…

“Style" is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style.”
~ John Fairchild

[Zax2me]

12. Oh, pish posh...

This is the fashion industry.
The exist by a stamp of approval or disapproval of celebrities and/or other 1%ers like it actually matters.
What really matter is most see the First Lady as classy, elegant, yet earthy and very relate-able to an American public that has not seen it since Hillary was first lady.

[Cleita]

13. If she's so classy, she would be careful on what shades of red she wears.

Red hair often clashes with red clothes just like in the picture you posted. She hasn't given it a thought. And she criticized Kate? Kate is always beautifully and tastefully dresses as future queen would be. Thank god she doesn't emulate her husband's grandmother and dress like her in frumpy dumpy. I love Michelle's clothes and I would wear them myself if I were tall like her.

[Cha]

15. I'm Rec this thread just for the pics of FL Michelle in

Red.. thanks spanone.

And, Happy International Women's Day..

Kasai @Kahsai

"Happy International Women's Day" http://twitter.com/Kahsai/status/310049259091275777/photo/1



http://theobamadiary.com/2013/03/08/chat-away-back-monday/#comments

Nobody dresses perfectly every single day.. but on the whole Michelle Obama has a wonderful style all her own.. with the help of JCrew, Jason Wu, and other Clothesmakers.

[postulater]

16. I shook her hand once. I don't remember what she was wearing.

So there! VivvyAnn whoever you are.

[siligut]

17. If she said something nice she wouldn't get any attention

And judging from her designs, attention is all she is after.

[demwing]

20. ^^^ Applies to the vast majority of fashionistas /nt

[NWHarkness]

19. Says the woman who got famous dressing Sid Vicious

[smirkymonkey]

21. Vivienne Westwood's sense of fashion is absolutely criminal.

She is in no position to be criticizing anybody. How she ever got to become a famous designer I'll never know.

[REP]

22. I believe Ms Obama is an accomplished lawyer (etc) in her own right - who cares what she wears?

She always seems nicely dressed to me, but I'm more impressed by who she is and what's she's done.

[jmowreader]

24. Anyone know what Vivienne said about Pickles?

"I find Mrs. Bush's style tasteful and elegant. It's a bit like a comfortable old couch."

[Cleita]

30. LOL!

"I just saw it on the window and I had to wear it."

[graywarrior]

26. Viv's outfit convinces me she's a fucking fashion genious.

(just in case)

[Aerows]

27. Lord

If I was that lady, I wouldn't be talking about anyone's looks or fashion sense given what she's wearing and how she looks in that photo. Just goes to show you can have supposed "style" and completely lack class. ETA: and taste, too.

[Bonobo]

28. Dreadful or Wonderful, who gives a flying fuck? nt

[malaise]

29. Of course it's dreadful

She doesn't wear Westwood's crap

[HipChick]

35. Who would?

[malaise]

40. No one with taste

[idwiyo]

44. To wear Westwood requires absolute absence of taste and one also must be blind.

Doesn't work otherwise.

[malaise]

45. Blind or stoned on whatever

[longship]

32. Is that Miss Clairol, or Kiwi Cordovan Boot Polish?

Don't you love it when people with no style and no taste criticize others for their style?

Vivienne, is that hair on your head, or did your hamster die? I like the way you dress, Vivienne; what did you do with the rest of the curtains?

[lunasun]

34. eeek!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=5&gs_ri=psy-ab&cp=17&gs_id=3&xhr=t&q=vivienne+westwood&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.43287494,d.aWc&biw=1280&bih=635&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=iq46Uca9GMHhygHJuoC4AQ
really take your pick of these
no room to talk

[Aerows]

39. Wait a second...

I had to read that again. She criticized Duchess Kate, too? Holy hell. I'm assuming that unless you look like you've been on a heroin binge for 5 days and crawled out of the sewer, you pretty much have no style in her opinion. Ugh.

No thank you. Healthy is a good look for any woman, and if she doesn't like either of those ladies, well, judging by how her own models look and how she looks, that is pretty much her preferred style - gutter chic.

[malaise]

41. Seriously everything about Westwood suggests some heavy metal drugs

[Brigid]

42. Who asked her anyway?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

43. The First Lady is a stunning, statuesque woman.

Her beauty and her stature compliment and build upon each other. If there is any issue with her fashion it is a comment on the overly self-congratulating -- yet undeserved -- nature of "fashion." That Mrs. Obama looks as awesome as she does in these pics proves she is the one person who can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

I wish I could throw the curves she does in that jogging suit.

[magical thyme]

47. why would somebody with neon, carroty yellow-orange hair and pasty pinkish skin

wear fire engine red? AAAACCCKKKK!!!!!!!

Although the choice of a "sack" is good in that it does drape nicely to hide her real shape.

Then there's the hair "style" on the designer? Ummmm....that's how we look when we step out of the shower or the ocean or lake. Not by choice. AAAACCCKKKK!!!!!!