What Happens When the Most Fashionable First Ladies Meet

KiD BRO on the first lady fashion trail

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is the wife of French President, Nicolas Sarkozy. Carla is a retired model, singer and one time girlfriend of Mick Jaegger. Oh yeah, and a nude photo scandal that caused controversey but did not have much effect on her public image. She is the darling of fashion houses in France and Vanity Fair dubbed her the next Jackie O. Michelle and Carla met today in Strasbourg, France for theNato summit. Michelle is wearing a floral print coat by Thakoon and Carla is wearing a grey belted trench. They are both wearing pussy bow jackets with similar hem lines. This was probably planned, possibly to show unity after it was rumoured that Carla was not present at the G20 Summit in London because Michelle would take the spotlight from Carla. We highly doubt this rumor. I'm not feeling Michelle's floral print jacket but she takes it off and reveals a Thakoon magenta dress that is cut beautifully.

London Calling

KiD BRO follows Michelle Obama's every fashion move

The First Lady and her husband boarded Air Force One looking timeless in one her fashion favorites, Thakoon. Michelle Obama is in London for the annual G-20 Summit, despite heavy protesting and an uneasy economic climate Michelle Obama still dresses like the optimistic fashion leader that she is.

The white jacket with black trim is Thakoon and Michael Kors dress underneath. According to Style.com while the coat looks like "tweed, it’s actually a silk tulle that’s been flocked to resemble the classic fabric."


When the First Lady arrived in London, she apparently has been taking tips from Victoria Beckham and changed on the plane. Ready for awaiting photogs she wore a bright chartreuse yellow Jason Wu. Wardrobe change on Air Force One. We like!

By breakfast Michelle had met with Britain's Prime Minister's wife to visit a cancer center. Michelle wore high street retailer J. Crew with a double pearl necklace. Her cardigan is bead studded with a mint green pencil skirt.
Its only mid morning, we will be eagerly waiting to see what she will wear during the rest of her London tour. Hopefully we can see her wear a British designer. Obama in McQueen, we can only imagine. Rumour has it when she meets the Queen she may go sleeveless. Oh the shock!

Coming To America

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After a long awaited arrival TopShop/TopMan is opening its doors tomorrow for the launch of their first American location.
TopShop was due to make its debut last Autumn but due to construction, flood, and even fire delays scheduling was pushed back. The grand opening kicks off tomorrow at 11am with Kate Moss and Sir Phillip Green.They are hoping to translate Topshop's success from London to the streets of Manhattan.

PR consultant Kelly Cutrone had to say this about Topshop's arrival “I truly believe it is going to turn New York upside down. This is going to be an injection of cool and energy that only the Brits can deliver to the sad retail world in New York. All the girls in NYC will trample and grind to get into that store; they live for girls like Agyness Deyn and Kate Moss.”

Kate Moss's ninth collection will also be launched tomorrow. It will launch the same day as the UK.The 25,000sq. feet store is located on Broadway and cost a reported $20million.

Get your One of a Kind

Our friends from Cry Wolf will be there with their fantastic tee's so be sure to say hello.
Get some unique goodies and be inspired at the Spring show, starting today.
info:
Wednesday, April 1 to Sunday, April 5, 2009
Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place
Weekdays 11am-10pm, Saturday 10am-9pm, Sunday 10am-6pm

Lindsey Lohan fronts the 10th Anniversary Issue for April's Nylon magazine. She dishes on being a wanna-be model, Britney and being tabloid fodder. Oh well, maybe her club appearances and celeb DJing of Itune tracks will pay the rent for now. Next stop celebrity poker tournament. Jokes! Love u LiLo.

On Having Her Picture Taken:
I love doing photo shoots… I mean, if I could just sign with IMG and do ad campaigns and model more, I’d do that… because that’s fun for me. That’s not work.

Her one Mean Girls reference:
There’s not much I can do about the fact that I’ve become a kind of tabloid obsession. I can’t change that. And yes, the websites, the gossip pages, and all of that stuff have hurt my career – they’re like the Burn Books of Hollywood… but I really don’t feel like I should have to prove myself to anyone because of living out my college years in the public eye. I’m glad everything happened the way it did.

On Britney Spears:
She’s marketed as an entertainer, which is what she is. Not necessarily as, like, an artist. And I respect that about her, cause she doesn’t want to pretend.

On her future:
I'm talking to [lots of people]. One is Sean Penn – I spoke to him again the other day. We’re trying to get Seth Rogen for this project, but Seth won’t call us back. So call us back, Seth, if you’re reading this!

Keeping up with LG Toronto Fashion Week

Stacey McKenzie strutting for Evan Bidell

Dig the hair pieces at Lucien Matis. Very cool. Very Canadian.

The apple of my eye, Irina, walking in Joe Fresh

Danielle Meder offers beautiful hand painted fashion postcards, featuring looks from designers like Travis Taddeo and Joeffer Coac.


Textstyles takes us with her to fashion week, blogging everything we want to know! i.e our favorite Canadian model Irina Lazareanu walking in the Joe Fresh show.



Worn Fashion Journal talks to Montreal designer Clayton Evans’ about his fascinating complexgeometries aw 2009 collection


NOW's Andrew Sardone keeps us in the loop, as per usual.


Tim at blogTO finds out about the WOMEN x WOMEN female fashion photog event.

The One and Only Barbie

As you may have heard, it is Barbie's 50th birthday. And yes indeed, she still looks great.
I grew up putting on Barbie fashion shows in my basement, and if it was socially acceptable I probably still would.
Fellow Barbie fans must be delighted as I am because in honor of her birthday, Barbie had her own show at New York Fashion week -- and will have one here at Toronto Fashion Week.
At the recent show in New York, designers like Rachel Roy and Badgley Mischka created Barbie's looks for the runway. At Toronto Fashion Week, Monday night's kickoff will be David Dixon's homage to Barbie.

shoes by Bruno Frisoni