{"id":849,"date":"2014-03-05T11:40:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T16:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2018-04-16T13:02:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T18:02:10","slug":"caroline-herrera-and-first-ladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/caroline-herrera-and-first-ladies\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Herrera and First Ladies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many people are still talking about Michelle Obama&#8217;s wonderful State Dinner dress in honor of French President Francois Hollande. \u00a0And I agree it was absolutely stunning. \u00a0Designer Carolina Herrera designed the gown which she described as \u201ca black hand-sewn beaded embroidery appliqu\u00e9 scallop-edged top over a liberty blue silk faille corset. A wide black velvet belt breaks up the top from the silk faille inverted pleat skirt.\u201d \u00a0I personally loved the liberty blue color selected that echoes the blue color that both countries share in their flags.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-850\" alt=\"enhanced-buzz-wide-30177-1392168469-37\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/enhanced-buzz-wide-30177-1392168469-37-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/enhanced-buzz-wide-30177-1392168469-37-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/enhanced-buzz-wide-30177-1392168469-37-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/enhanced-buzz-wide-30177-1392168469-37.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-852\" alt=\"grid-cell-8780-1392169448-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/grid-cell-8780-1392169448-2-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/grid-cell-8780-1392169448-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/grid-cell-8780-1392169448-2-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/grid-cell-8780-1392169448-2.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-851\" alt=\"grid-cell-8780-1392169450-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/grid-cell-8780-1392169450-4-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/grid-cell-8780-1392169450-4-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/grid-cell-8780-1392169450-4-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/grid-cell-8780-1392169450-4.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Herrera knows how to perfectly dress a First Lady. \u00a0She worked with Jacqueline Kennedy and was\u00a0one of the\u00a0designers that First Lady Laura Bush selected to create her amazing gowns for her second\u00a0Inaugural\u00a0in 2005. Shown below Herrera had the\u00a0honor for designing the dress Mrs. Bush wore to the Texas State Society&#8217;s Black Tie &amp; Boots gala for which she created a\u00a0dramatic raspberry silk taffeta gown- perfect for the event and Mrs. Bush.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-853\" alt=\"P44285-241\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P44285-241-300x196.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P44285-241-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P44285-241-600x393.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many people are still talking about Michelle Obama&#8217;s wonderful State Dinner dress in honor of French President Francois Hollande. \u00a0And I agree it was absolutely stunning. \u00a0Designer Carolina Herrera designed the gown which she described as \u201ca black hand-sewn beaded embroidery appliqu\u00e9 scallop-edged top over a liberty blue silk faille corset. A wide black&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/caroline-herrera-and-first-ladies\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-white-house-wednesdays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}