Michelle Obama is the greatest FLOTUS to ever FLOTUS. She is a 52 year-old, Princeton and Harvard-educated, clear-eyes-full-hearts-can’t-lose inspiration to us all, a woman we don’t deserve and will miss horribly when she leaves 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. In internet parlance, she is #goals personified. In IRL parlance, she is the type of accomplished woman we want our daughters and sisters and mothers and sons and brothers and fathers to emulate. And in this monster of an election, she is a salve on our collective, national, hemorrhaging open wound.
Also, she fucking slays. Fashion, in general, is often frivolous and frequently superfluous. How well someone dresses should never be used as a barometer for their worth. But when you see that someone like Michelle Obama—who so clearly has so much to admire in very serious ways—can also roll out of the White House for her final state dinner in a goddamn rose chainmail Versace dress, there is perhaps no more appropriate response than to channel your inner fashionista and scream “YAAAAASSSSSSS, MICHELLE!” to the gawds.
Michelle Obama is the greatest FLOTUS to ever FLOTUS. She is a 52 year-old, Princeton and Harvard-educated, clear-eyes-full-hearts-can’t-lose inspiration to us all, a woman we don’t deserve and will miss horribly when she leaves 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. In internet parlance, she is #goals personified. In IRL parlance, she is the type of accomplished woman we want our daughters and sisters and mothers and sons and brothers and fathers to emulate. And in this monster of an election, she is a salve on our collective, national, hemorrhaging open wound.
Also, she fucking slays. Fashion, in general, is often frivolous and frequently superfluous. How well someone dresses should never be used as a barometer for their worth. But when you see that someone like Michelle Obama—who so clearly has so much to admire in very serious ways—can also roll out of the White House for her final state dinner in a goddamn rose chainmail Versace dress, there is perhaps no more appropriate response than to channel your inner fashionista and scream “YAAAAASSSSSSS, MICHELLE!” to the gawds.
We are not worthy.
Take a gander at every one of Michelle's state dinner looks and Jordan cry all the way to Election Day:
1. Starting off with a golden bang
Michelle Obama wearing Naeem Khan to the White House State Dinner in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 24, 2009.
2. A dream come true in blue
FLOTUS looking ***flawless in Peter Soronen at the White House State Dinner in Washington, D.C., on May 19, 2010.
Bonus pic of our favorite couple looking sweet AF:
3. She came to slay
Michelle killing it in Alexander McQueen at the White House State Dinner in Washington, D.C., on Jan.19, 2011.
4. Looking straight up statuesque
Michelle Obama in Naeem Khan at the White House State Dinner in Washington, D.C., on June 7, 2011.
5. Killing it in jewel tones
Michelle Obama wearing Doo-Ri Chung—with Barack and the president and first lady of South Korea—at the White House State Dinner on Oct. 13, 2011.
6. Accessorizing to the gawds
FLOTUS in Marchesa at the White House State Dinner in Washington, D.C., on March 14, 2012.
7. Going full on eleganza
Michelle Obama in Carolina Herrera just in time to break hearts on Valentine's Day at the White House State Dinner in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 11, 2014.
8. A vision in purple
9. Rocking all black everything
10. Stuntin' in floral
11. Looking like a living work of art
FLOTUS rocking Naeem Khan again at the White House State Dinner in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 2016.
12. Same
Michelle wearing Brandon Maxwell and Barack embodying all of our feelings at the White House State Dinner in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 2, 2016.
13. A glittering glamazon
Michelle leaves us with a Look To Remember in Versace at the White House State Dinner on Oct. 18, 2016.