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OBAMAS SET FASHION WORLD ON FIRE: Barack's style seen on Milan runway; Michelle's 'View' dress still in demand.
*Barack Obama's fashion sense is apparently all the rage at Milan's fashion week, while the designer of a dress worn by his wife, Michelle, is still trying to deal with the item's sudden demand.
In Milan, Donatella Versace used the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee as inspiration for her Spring-Summer 2009 collection presented Saturday evening. Calling Obama "the man of the moment," Versace said the new line was designed for "a relaxed man who doesn't need to flex muscles to show he has power."
Meanwhile, in New York, designer Donna Ricco said she had no idea that Michelle Obama would be wearing her black-and-white leaf-print dress, which is available for $99 on her Web site www.donnaricco.com, but was picked up by Mrs. Obama at the White House Black Market store for $148.
"Apparently she just bought it off the rack," Ricco tells the New York Daily News. "I didn't realize until people started calling me, and then I watched the show on YouTube."
Many White House Black Market stores across the country sold out of the dress. In New York, shipments were arriving just in time for next-day demand. Ricco is frantically trying to make 3,000 more for a late-summer delivery.
"She is so classy and so put together," Ricco says of Michelle Obama. "I try to design dresses that can flatter every woman and every shape, and of course Michelle is in great shape, but for her to just grab that off the rack and have it look so great on her, that's a real compliment."
In other Obama news…
*Page Six is reporting that the couple recently enjoyed some downtime with Stoli martinis in the Hula Room at Roy's Restaurant in Chicago.
*Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda in "Sex and the City," spoke to The New York Daily News about hanging out with Michelle Obama at a recent benefit. "I told her Miranda endorsed Hillary, but I support Obama. And she told me 'Sex and the City' was the only grown-up movie she's seen in months."
*Florida congressman Robert Wexler, an Obama supporter, writes of a phone call received by the presidential nominee in his new memoir, "Fire-Breathing Liberal." He recounts stopping along a road to help a lady whose car battery had died. He was trying to get her hood open when Sen. Obama called on his cell phone. "I gave [Barack] some candid advice on courting South Florida voters," says Wexler, "and he had some suggestions about what levers to pull." Later the woman said, "It sounded like you were talking to the President of the United States." Said Wexler: "Well, maybe."
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