(Newswire.net — July 30, 2016) — With author Kate Betts recently releasing her new book, Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama, much of the fashion world has turned its attention towards the First Lady’s fashion sense. TIME recently did a piece entitled Michelle Obama as Fashion Icon, showing off some of her most memorable looks since becoming FLOTUS. Even before TIME’s recent coverage of Michelle’s style presence, her knack for making impressive fashion choices had been recognized and highlighted by some of the most prominent fashion magazines including Elle, InStyle, and Cosmopolitan.
Setting Classy Trends Along the Way
Since her husband came into office in 2008, the First Lady has been setting fashion trends with her unique yet versatile style. In particular, as Huffington Post and other major blogs have pointed out, she’s set a number of trends, inspiring women worldwide to be more conscientious of their style choices. In fact, online boutiques like StyleWe consistently report a rise in sales related to particular items or fads that Michelle has momentarily popularized through example, such as asymmetrical dresses, striped shirts, halter necklines, kitten heels, striped shirts, off-the-shoulder dresses, and other components of the signature style that she’s built over the years.
Taking the Fashion World by Storm
This isn’t the first time that TIME has recognized Michelle’s love for fashion, having already named her one of the top 100 most influential fashion icons of all-time. Elle also recently did a piece on some of the most historic fashion moments of her political career, from the time she made her inaugural ball debut wearing an elegant Jason Wu dress all the way up to her recent appearance in a royal blue Christian Siriano dress at the Democratic National Convention on Monday.
Exceeding Everyone’s Expectations with Exceptional Class
When Michelle first burst onto the scene there were few people who could’ve predicted just how big of a name she’d become in the fashion industry, gracing the covers of major magazines like Vogue, Glamour, and Essence. While there have been other First Ladies who have been known for their sense of fashion, Mrs. Obama is noted as the most modern and recent of those examples. As a strong advocate of education, she’s been a proponent of the younger generation learning how to cook, dress, and behave in a classy manner.
Joining the Ranks of Fashion’s First Ladies
Presidents having fashionable wives is as old of a tradition as the presidency itself, dating all the way back to the very first First Lady, Martha Washington. Other notable examples of influential fashion icons that doubled as First Ladies are Dolley Madison, Julia Tyler, Mary Lincoln, Harriet Lane, Grace Coolidge, Francis Cleveland, Jackie Kennedy, Mamie Eisenhower, Rosalynn Carter, Elizabeth Ford, Hillary Clinton, and Nancy Reagan. With her husband’s presidency scheduled to come to a close on November 8th, Michelle might not be in the public eye as much as before, but we can expect to see more from her at least in the areas of fashion and education for years to come.