Fashionista Update

October 24, 2009 at 10:32 pm

A nobody called Mary Tomer has written an excruciating book claiming that Michelle Obama is the fashion guru of the sentient Universe. Of the 120 photographs used, this oddly isn’t one of them

Philip Sherwell has “reviewed” it in the Telegraph – if by ‘reviewed’ you mean slobbering all over the author and sticking the pages of her book together with his drool. At least, here’s hoping that it was drool. Obama’s “style and wardrobe is celebrated in a glossy new book that will delight her growing band of fashion devotees” – a cue for an article deserving of a nomination to Private Eye’s Order of the Brown Nose….or is that waaaaacist?
Never fear, though. This “growing band” becomes a “legion” not a hop, skip and paragraph later. Luckily he runs out of paid-by-the-word space before “intergalactic titanium-clad super-battalions of mind-boggling proportions” get involved with their opinion.
The authoress, Miss Tomer believes much is communicated through Mrs Obama’s style. “There is a sense of optimism, such as the lemongrass dress she chose for the inauguration in January, amid a sea of black winter coats“. Or “horribly clashing tastelessness” as we used to call such a fashion disaster, but never mind. Try the Rorschach ink-blot test, love, and tell us if you see galloping unicorns and fairies.

Really, the Daily Telegraph is going through the floor with biased op-eds, sycophantic fawning and slanted commentary all taking the place of proper journalism. TheEye only buys it for the crossword these days.