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"First Lady Michelle Obama wore an elegant Rachel Roy dress for last night&amp;#x27;s State of the Union address, which shouldn&amp;#x27;t really be considered news, except for a bunch of Mrs. O-style-obsessives like us. And yet this morning&amp;#x27;s headlines tell a different story: &amp;quot;Yes, she wore an American designer!&amp;quot; reads one, and &amp;quot;...the monumental decision made by First Lady Michelle Obama in preparation for the evening&amp;#x27;s address: her choice of attire,&amp;quot; said another. So what&amp;#x27;s all the fuss about? We may have been wowed by Mrs. Obama that to-die-for Alexander McQueen gown she wore to last week&amp;#x27;s state dinner, but not everyone thought it was the appropriate place to boast the work of a British born, Paris-based designer. Oscar de la Renta told WWD, &amp;quot;My understanding is that the visit was to promote American-Chinese trade &amp;amp;#8212; American products in China and Chinese products in America. Why do you wear European clothes?&amp;amp;#8221; He suggested that the first lady could harness her considerable fashion power to helping designers with businesses here in the states: &amp;quot;This is an important issue. Some people did not get the point. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not [intended] to be negative. Do you think Kate Middleton is going to be married in Marc Jacobs? Or you&amp;amp;#8217;d see Carla Bruni dressing in American clothes? This is a big industry in this country. Mrs. Obama does look great. She should take that and do something. She could do a great good for our industry. We need to create jobs here, create jobs on Seventh Avenue, too.&amp;amp;#8221; Sign up for our style newsletter and get the best of our fashion blog, delivered straight to your inbox! The CFDA eventually weighed in, too, with president Diane Von Furstenberg writing, &amp;quot;CFDA believes in promoting American fashion. Our First Lady, Michelle Obama has been wonderful at promoting our designers, so we were surprised and a little disappointed not to be represented for this major state dinner.&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;m so curious to hear what you ladies think about this topic. Do you think it&amp;#x27;s something of a national duty for Michelle Obama to wear American designers and represent our fashion industry? Does her championing of up-and-comers like Jason Wu and Prabal Gurung become overshadowed by a misstep at such an important event? Or do you not think her choice of McQueen was, in fact, a misstep? Do you agree with Mr. de la Renta, or do you think her wardrobe choices don&amp;#x27;t need to turn her into an American ambassador? Discuss! PLUS! More Mrs. O style: - It&amp;#x27;s a Christmas miracle: Michelle Obama is finally photographed in Marc Jacobs - It&amp;#x27;s official: Michelle Obama&amp;#x27;s wardrobe choices mean big bucks for designers - Mrs. O in leopard and lace: A Do or a Don&amp;#x27;t? What&amp;#x27;s With All the Spam in the Comments Section? Sick of all those annoying ads in the comments section lately? So are we! We police the site regularly and delete spam as soon as we can, but recently, the volume of spam has increased dramatically. We&amp;#x27;re working on a way to block them permanently, so please bear with us, and know that we&amp;#x27;re as eager as you are to get read of these pests. Meanwhile, please continue to use the Report Abuse button to flag spam--it really does help!-- and continue to leave your brilliant feedback below. If you have any urgent questions about the spam, please contact us. Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images Can&amp;#x27;t get enough STF? Follow us on Twitter! Latest Tweets!Follow us on Twitter!jQuery(&amp;quot;.blog-tweets&amp;quot;).tweet({username:[&amp;quot;glamour_fashion&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;cindi_leive&amp;quot;], count: 3}); "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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