Last night Rod 2.0 reported First Lady Michelle Obama would grace the March cover of Vogue, becoming only the second first lady in history to do so. The embargo has been lifted and here is your first look at the cover.
The cover was photographed in January by Annie Leibovitz at the Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington. The magenta silk dress is by inaugural gown designer Jason Wu. In the two interior portraits, the First Lady wears a curve-fitting Narciso Rodriguez dress and a J.Crew salmon wool cardigan and tweed skirt.
"I love clothes," Obama says in the profile, written by Vogue editor-at-large André Leon Talley and chock-full of Talley's typical and insuffrerable name dropping and fabulousity. "I first met Mrs. Obama at an impromptu dinner at Oprah Winfrey's house in Santa Barbara, California, on the eve of the divine Ms. O's Legends Ball in 2005. I was seated between the then Senator Barack Obama's wife and Tina Turner. ..." Skip past Talley's self-indulgence and the article is a fascinating read.
With the exception of Bess Truman, Vogue has photographed every first lady dating to Lou Hoover in 1929. This is only the second time in Vogue's 117-year history that a first lady has made the cover. (Hillary Clinton was first in December 1998.) Michelle Obama is also one of the very few black women to cover Vogue. Congratulations to First Lady Michelle Obama for becoming the new muse of American fashion.
This is fabulous.
Posted by: M. Mark | 11 February 2009 at 09:50
Work it First Lady Michelle Obama!
This is incredible and I am so happy that she made this cover. Way to go Michelle! Such an inspiration.
Posted by: Alex | 11 February 2009 at 09:56
I love the dress and the staging.
Michelle Obama's facial expression is a little uncertain.
This is becoming typical of Annie Leiboviyz, not very much originality is left to her work it has become very formulaic.
Posted by: Shane Moseley | 11 February 2009 at 10:02
Love it love it LOVE IT! This made my day. GOBama!
Posted by: Bradley | 11 February 2009 at 10:30
Good for her.
Nice call Shane on A.L-
Posted by: Langston Baldwin | 11 February 2009 at 11:11
THIS IS SO EXCITING! Such a classy first lady.
Posted by: FREELEO | 11 February 2009 at 13:34
OMG her arms! I can't stand her! She looks GREAT!
Posted by: isis | 11 February 2009 at 13:55
Talley is a hoot!!! I give him props for making it in the cut throat world of fashion. He's not a designer, so to be black and on anyone's editorial board, especially a major magazine, is a coupe. But Ms. Obama is beautiful and always gracious, and I am very glad she is as suppotive of the LGBT community as her husband. That makes her even more beautiful to me.
Posted by: Diva1961 | 11 February 2009 at 19:05
I vote 'Fabulous' also! She's da bomb!
Posted by: ReggieH | 11 February 2009 at 20:00