Michelle Obama’s inaugural dress to be featured in Manhattan museum exhibit

September 24th, 2009 NEW YORK - She's known for her style sense and taking risk when it comes to fashion, but Michelle Obama's plans apparently went a little haywire when she appeared in a gaudy red number at the UN. On Wednesday morning, the US first lady was the lady in red as she watched her husband's speech at the UN, the Huffington Post reports.

August 26th, 2009 Exhibit offers live view of WTC constructionNEW YORK — Visitors to the World Trade Center site can now watch live video of the construction at ground zero. A nearby exhibit opened Wednesday.

August 7th, 2009 NEW YORK - Fellow customers at former 'Top Chef' contestant Spike Mendelsohn's Good Stuff Eatery in DC had their cellphones temporarily confiscated when U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama and her daughters visited there.

June 29th, 2009 Woodstock anniversary exhibit at rock museumNEW YORK — Peace and love will last a lot longer than three days at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, which is celebrating Woodstock's 40th anniversary with a new exhibit. From July 3 to Nov.

June 7th, 2009 PARIS - US President Barack Obama left Paris for Washington Sunday after a five-day foreign tour that included a landmark speech in Cairo, a visit to the former Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany and the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy. Obama spent the final hours of the journey on a private visit to the French capital with his wife, Michelle, and their two daughters, Malia and Sasha.

June 2nd, 2009 NEW YORK - New York's billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg has claimed that a dinner and Broadway undertaken by Barack Obama and his wife Michelle is a celebration of New York's affordable night life.I can't think of anything that is better as an advertisement for our tourism industry, for Broadway, for our restaurants, for saying that this is a safe city and an affordable city," Bloomberg said Monday. "The President doesn't get paid that much.

May 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama flew via Air Force One to New York Saturday evening for a "date" to take in dinner and a play. They helicoptered from Kennedy International Airport to Lower Manhattan, continuing via presidential motorcade to the Washington Square Park neighbourhood.

May 30th, 2009 Looks like a night on Broadway for first coupleNEW YORK — His public schedule listed no official events, so President Barack Obama had plenty of time to devote to being a weekend dad and spouse. After watching daughter Malia's soccer game for an hour Saturday morning, the president and first lady Michelle Obama arrived in New York late Saturday afternoon for date night.

May 30th, 2009 NEW YORK - US President Barack Obama, who makes his first trip to the Big Apple as the commander in chief today, will enjoy a date night on Broadway with First Lady Michelle Obama. The New York Daily News has learnt that the Obamas plan to take in "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" at the Belasco Theater.

May 20th, 2009 NEW YORK - Michelle Obama continued to win admirers after stunning the New York crowd in her purple cocktail dress during a public show of support for the arts in the city. The US First Lady braved the chilly weather in a purple wool and silk sheath, paired with a jacket from Isaac Mizrahi, during her arrival at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to cut a ribbon for the opening of a new wing.

May 6th, 2009 NEW YORK - US First Lady Michelle Obama has recycled a dress she wore during President Barack Obama's first day in office, for a meet-and-greet at the U.S. mission to the UN on May 5.

May 5th, 2009 NEW YORK - Michelle Obama is certainly one of the biggest fashion icons of recent times, and now a new book describing her fabulous fashion choices is set for release in the US tomorrow. The book, Titled 'Michelle Style: Celebrating the First Lady of Fashion', is authored by former fashion magazine editor-in-chief Mandi Norwood and chronicles Mrs Obama's signature looks.

April 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - According to alarming reports from Mexico City, Felipe Solis, a distinguished archaeologist who showed Obama around the city's anthropology museum during his visit to Mexico earlier this month, died the next day from "flu-like symptoms".ccording to The Independent, Solis met the President at a gala dinner which was held at the museum on April 16, before Obama travelled onto the Americas summit in Trinidad and Tobago. On Sunday, the museum was shut, in common with most public attractions in Mexico City, and the nation's Health Minister confirmed that Solis had died of pneumonia - but that it was not thought he had contracted swine flu.

March 31st, 2009 NEW YORK - The Obamas are using their own money to renovate the White House, forgoing the 100,000 dollars in federal funds that is traditionally allotted to new presidents for such renovation projects. First Lady Michelle Obama''''s communications director Camille Johnston said that the Obamas, who are worth millions, will pay to overhaul the White House residence from their own pockets.

February 10th, 2009 NEW YORK - US first lady and new style icon Michelle Obama will feature on the cover of Vogue magazine's March issue and will appear in an eight-page spread that includes clothes from her own wardrobe. While nearly every first lady - beginning with Herbert Hoover's wife, Lou, in 1929 - has been photographed for the fashion magazine, only Hillary Clinton was featured on the cover, in December 1998, said Patrick O'Connell, Vogue spokesperson.