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d.c. gets fashionable (ish)
October 9, 2014

Fashion’s Big Day at the White House

By Véronique Hyland

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“I mean, come on. You’re in the White House. There are some of the most impressive people in fashion here to teach you all and to reach out and to mentor you. And there’s food. What more could you ask for?” joked Michelle Obama, kicking off her remarks yesterday as she welcomed a host of American designers to the White House’s Fashion Education Workshop. She wore, appropriately enough, a blue dress by FIT grad Natalya Koval, the winner of a design competition associated with the workshop. The hush-hush event drew Diane von Furstenberg, Narciso Rodriguez, Jenna Lyons, Prabal Gurung, Phillip Lim, Thom Browne, and Maria Cornejo, among many others, to mentor students from Parsons, FIT, and the Pratt Institute. Click through the slideshow to get an insider’s view of the fashion takeover of D.C. (luckily, they left plenty of Instagram breadcrumbs for us to follow).

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Anna Wintour, Michelle Obama  Photo: 2014 Getty Images
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Maria Cornejo, Michelle Obama  Photo: zeromcornejo/Instagram
Prabal Gurung, Diane von Furstenberg, Jenna Lyons, Jason Wu  Photo: prabalgurung/Instagram
Narciso Rodriguez  Photo: Narciso Rodriguez/Instagram
Carol Lim, Humberto Leon  Photo: kenzo/Instagram
Jason Wu  Photo: jasonwustudio/Instagram
Jacky Tang, Diane von Furstenberg, Humberto Leon, Naomi Campbell  Photo: humbertotoo/Instagram
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Jenna Lyons, Duro Olowu  Photo: duroolowu/Instagram
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