Michelle Obama may not have appeared on the March cover of Vogue as initially suspected, but The Washington Post reports the first lady will be on the magazine’s April cover, and she will be wearing Reed Krakoff.
The Posts‘s Reliable Sources blog cites Robin Givhan as saying that Obama will wear one of Krakoff’s ensembles on the cover, though it’s not known if it came from her own wardrobe or if it was on loan for the shoot. (The first lady wore Krakoff at President Obama‘s swearing-in ceremony, and in her official White House portrait, at left.) Photographer Annie Leibovitz reportedly also captured Obama wearing a sweater and ball gown from Michael Kors.
According to The Washingtonian, a camera crew was seen taking equipment into the White House at the end of January to set up the first lady’s second Vogue cover. Leibovitz also shot Obama in Jason Wu for the March 2009 cover of the magazine, and the cover line on that issue hailed her as “the first lady the world’s been waiting for.”
Vogue has featured a number of women in politics – from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to former First Lady Laura Bush – but none of them has enjoyed being on the cover twice.
Granted, the first lady does have one trump card: President Obama. His public schedule for the day of the shoot was mostly clear, with the exception of a briefing at 10 a.m. Will he be in the picture this time around? Only time will tell.
Photo via The White House.