Michelle Obama’s fashion legacy will prove that style plus substance can make political magic. It is a formula with which many have wrangled, but with less success. (Consider the term ‘fashion plate’, and what it implies about the wearer’s marrow, to see how fashion can be a double-edged sword for women in the public eye.) Obama’s style genius was not to rely on timeworn first lady tropes, but instead to show the glamour of being brave and the elegance of being modern
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