Obama on his fashion style: “I’m a Little Frumpy”

October 7th, 2009 LONDON - An Italian casket-making company has come up with a "devilish" calendar, featuring sexy models, to advertise its range of wooden coffins. To make sure that the units are sold in the best manner, the truly Italian- Cofanifunebri bosses decided to drape sexy girls on their products, reports The Sun.

September 27th, 2009 LONDON - Sarah Brown's dress designer complains that she does not follow her copious style tips. Britt Lintner is the same stylist who designed the dress that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's wife wore at the G20 summit in London.

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.

September 21st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Queensland's mums are presently involved in a fashion war that takes place at school gates. The sides are apparently divided into "slummy mummys" who wear pyjamas and tracksuit pants, and the "yummy mummys" with heavy style quotient wearing designer denim and expensive sunglasses.

August 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - For those dreaming up runway-worthy fashions, the new digital fabric megaprinter can help them climb up the ladders of success. Fashion students of Baylor University are using a novel 50,000-dollar megaprinter for new fabric patterns to be showcased at Project Runway.

July 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Michelle Obama continues to win accolades for her style sense, this time courtesy her new elegant hairstyle. The First Lady used a celebration of country music at the White House to unveil her bobbed hairstyle, reports Us magazine.

July 22nd, 2009 Washington, July 22 (ANI): When it comes to style, US President Barack Obama has admitted that he's "a little frumpy". While on Today show, the commander-in-chief made the announcement following a light-hearted question about the baggy jeans he wore to throw out the first pitch at the All-Star game last week, dubbed by some as "dad jeans" and "nerd jeans," E!Online reported.

June 16th, 2009 New York, June 16 (ANI): Michelle Obama received a special tribute for her stylistic contribution to the industry at 'Oscars of fashion world'. The Council of Fashion Designers of America honoured the First Lady with a Board of Directors Special Tribute at the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.

June 6th, 2009 NEW YORK - Michelle Obama defied predictions of fashion experts after turning up in a 10-dollar T-shirt and a 25-dollar cardigan for a lunch with Former First Lady Nancy Reagan. The fashion icon, who has been sporting high-end lines like French designer Azzedine Alaia, wrapped herself in the affordable apparel offered by Gap.

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 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - American singer Lady Gaga has revealed that she would like to have an exhibition of her own fashion designs at the famed Louvre Museum in Paris, France. Lady Gaga, 23, who is famous for her skimpy stage costumes, wants to host fashion and technology displays at the art house.

March 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg has branded a fashion writer an 'anonymous b**ch' for criticising her wardrobe. The 'Ghost' star is fed of the fashion police, who have condemned the actress/comedienne for the casual outfits she wears as a co-host on U.S.

February 10th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - US First Lady Michelle Obama has long been hailed for her style. But the announcement by Vogue that she will feature on the cover of the magazine's March issue makes it official: Michelle Obama is now also America's first lady of fashion.

January 21st, 2009 LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON - She's been called a one-woman design stimulus, the leader of the fashion world and a practitioner of change you can wear. But whatever silly title you bestow upon the new First Lady Michelle Obama, 45, there's no doubt that in the first hours of her husband's presidency, she injected a sense of style and modernity that has long been missing from the White House.

January 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - While political junkies worry about Barack Obama's policies and plans, fashionistas are obsessed with another weighty matter: What will Michelle Obama wear to the bevy of inauguration balls Tuesday? The incoming first lady has already drawn admirers for her sophisticated but low-key style that mixes ready-to-wear pieces from such US shopping mall favourites as Banana Republic and J Crew with young designers and Chicagoans, like Maria Pinto. At a height of about 1.79 metres, Obama is one of the tallest first ladies ever, and favours simple sheaths.