Obama chose a slate-gray maxi dress with a low, curved neckline and a sculpted drop-waist bodice, accented with deep navy velvet. She kept the accessories tonal: a suede Liffner push-lock clutch<\/a>, and matching pumps. Her auburn-brunette braids were swept into a loose, low ponytail, while a baby-pink lip and pastel-blue manicure provided softer hits of color.<\/p>\n It was an appropriately considered choice for an evening spent celebrating an icon. Dion\u2019s September 12 show marked her first full concert in more than six years and the opening night of her Paris residency, following years away from touring after her stiff-person syndrome diagnosis. Obama joined a suitably starry audience that included Oprah Winfrey, Shania Twain, Haider Ackermann, among others.<\/p>\n The Diotima look also continued one of the defining threads of Obama\u2019s post-White House wardrobe: an intentional commitment to Black designers, and particularly those with a distinctive point of view. Scott founded Diotima in New York in 2021, grounding the label in Jamaican craft traditions, including hand crochet made by artisans on the island, while setting those techniques against precise tailoring and sensual, modern silhouettes.<\/p>\n Obama has become something of a Rachel Scott devotee, too. At the Essence Festival of Culture<\/a> in July, she opted for Scott\u2019s other label, Proenza Schouler, in a black dress punctuated with fringe and gleaming grommets.<\/p>\n Michelle Obama in Chanel at the 2026 U.S. Open.<\/p>\n Photo: Getty Images Michelle and Barack Obama at the 9\/11 memorial in New York.<\/p>\n Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n It\u2019s also been a particularly fashion-filled few days for the former FLOTUS. At the U.S. Open women\u2019s semifinals<\/a> on Thursday, Obama leaned more literally into Americana in a red, white, and navy striped Chanel midi dress with gold buttons. A day later, the mood was markedly different as she joined her husband and other former First Ladies for events commemorating the 25th anniversary of 9\/11<\/a>. There, she chose a brown jersey-and-leather Ferragamo dress: restrained enough for the gravity of the occasion, but still recognizably Obama in its strong silhouette and rich textures. Michelle Obama\u2019s recent fashion run is a neat demonstration of what she has always understood particularly well: dressing for the moment doesn\u2019t mean surrendering your point of view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama knows that American style needn\u2019t be stars and stripes. Sometimes, it\u2019s about championing the designers redefining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,75412,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-770092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-michelle-obama","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"NEW](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2294161870.jpeg\"\/)
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