Michelle Obama Shops at Target just like rest of us

Michelle Obama is trying to fit in, by showing off her inexpensive Hawaii dresses purchased from Target.  Michelle is Sporting the Dress to and back from their Obama family vacation to Hawaii.

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Michelle Obama is a style icon not merely because she looks great in designer clothes. We love the first lady because she recycles her great outfits like any regular woman would, and because she often wears clothing regular women can afford from retailers like the Gap and H&M. Obama memorably re-wore a gorgeous red brocade Michael Kors shift dress on election night in November of 2012 that she had worn publicly several times before. If it ain't broke, right?

Recently we were delighted to see one of Obama's inexpensive standbys getting a lot of use. She wore the same arrow-printed dress from Target's exclusive Merona brand twice on vacation in Hawaii. We spotted her wearing the pink and black sleeveless dress on December 22 deplaning Air Force One in Honolulu and again on January 5 as she boarded the plane to return to Washington D.C.. If the FLOTUS is cool with wearing the same dress twice on vacation, we are definitely going to start packing light. There's no need to cram loads of wardrobe options into an overstuffed suitcase when you can look this good over and over again in the same dress.

On her trip to Hawaii before the holidays, Obama wore her Target Merona dress with a cool black belt that mirrored the geometric pattern of the dress. For her return trip back home on January 5, she complemented the dress with a cropped short-sleeve black cardigan, pearl stud earrings, and what look to be rhinestone-studded FitFlop sandals (comfort first!). We couldn't help but notice and adore Obama's playful yellow pedicure.

Also, it's clear the first lady has a favorite travel outfit. She wore the same Merona dress aboard Air Force One at least once before on August 15, 2009 on a trip to Arizona. On that occasion she accessorized the dress with a much-loved studded belt by Japanese designer Sacai. And Obama wore the exact same ensemble, belt and all, again on July 21, 2011 to the national "Joining Forces" initiative in Virginia Beach. There Obama visited classrooms and spoke at the on-base theater for a screening of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part 2." Her affordable frock sure is getting some mileage!

Michelle Obama's Merona dress is long sold-out, but the brand's current dress collection is available at Target from $17 to $39.99.

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Models have to make weight before Shoots Now

Boxing, UFC, MMA and now photo shoots for models.  Models have to make weight three months before a shoot in a new law passed by Israel.  More info below brought to you by Yahoo.

A controversial Israeli law banning too-skinny models went into effect with the start of 2013, prompting observers around the world to buzz about how much weight it will hold. 

The law, approved last March by Israel's legislating Knesset, requires models to prove they have maintained a Body Mass Index (BMI) of at least 18.5 for three months prior to a fashion shoot or show. That means a woman who is 5'8'' tall can weigh no less than 119 pounds. It also requires advertisers who thin out a model's body with retouching software to make it clear that they have manipulated the images. 

"This law is another step in the war against eating disorders," said physician and law co-sponsor Rachel Adatto (with Danny Danon) after a 2011 reading of the draft, according to the Times of Israel. Underweight models, she explained, "can no longer serve as role models for innocent young people who adopt and copy the illusion of thinness." 

But critics of the law in this country say it and others like it—the Madrid Fashion Show's ban on women whose BMI is below 18, for example, and Milan's Fashion Week's ban on models with a BMI below 18.5—are misguided, focusing on weight instead of health. They also say the Israeli ban is bound to fail because of the muscle of the fashion industry. 

"I think it's an approach that isn't going to work," eating disorder expert Susan Ice told Yahoo! Shine. Ice, vice president of clinical services at Renfrew Center, a pioneer in the treatment of eating disorders, worked with the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) to create guidelines for models which, rather than focusing on BMI, strive to educate the industry and foster a healthy working environment. 

"I think that's a much more enlightened approach, a more likely-to-succeed approach, and an empowering approach," Ice says. Plus, she says, through working with the CFDA, "I've learned that designers are really artists, and we have free speech here. We can't tell anyone how to do their art….If designers want women to look like boys or if designers want women to look like 8-year-olds, you're not going to change that." 

But a champion of the new law, Adi Barkan, a former fashion-model agent in Israel, told Tayla Minsberg of the Atlantic last year that he was drawn into the issue after meeting an aspiring model who looked like she needed to be hospitalized. "I became immersed in this world very quickly. I gave up the agency and photography and delved into the dark world of anorexics and bulimics," he said. "I realized that only legislation can change the situation. There was no time to educate so many people, and the change had be forced on the industry. There was no time to waste, so many girls were dieting to death." 

Others in the industry around the world have agreed, including the organizers of the fashion shows in Italy and Spain. Years ago, the lower house of French Parliament voted in favor of a vague bill that outlawed "publicly inciting extreme thinness." And, in 2011, the UK banned a web-based ad that used a model with "highly visible" ribs, calling it "socially irresponsible." Vogue, at its magazines globally, instituted guidelines last year that enforce weight and age guidelines for its top models. 

Still, wrote Ray A. Smith and Christina Binkley in the Wall Street Journal this week, "The efforts to regulate models' weight in Spain and Italy have not resulted in significant changes, in part because of difficulties in determining reliable methods of measuring weight and health." 


Still, folks including Ice say there's no denying that images from Hollywood and the fashion industry can be difficult for young women to deal with. "Certainly I don't believe the modeling industry has caused the rise in eating disorders, but it makes it harder," she says. "It's a difficult recovery environment, worshiping thinness as the beauty ideal." 


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