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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Michelle Obama's Sexy, Bare Chested, Tattooed Bust

A new bust of first lady hopeful Michelle Obama was revealed on 9/17. The bust named "Michelle Obama's Makeover for America" which is the work of sculptor Daniel Edwards, reveals, according to the Leo Kesting Gallery's website, a "sexy, bare-shouldered style-enhancement [which] highlights Obama’s ethnicity to create a new fashion template for the 21st Century First Lady."

The Leo Kesting Gallery further says that “Michelle Obama’s Makeover for America” presents an accessorized mannequin bust of Obama that foregoes the conventional pearl necklace, and provides for her a ‘signature look’ to take to Washington. “The goal is to create a look for Michelle Obama that eliminates excessive comparisons to Jackie Kennedy,” said Edwards, who studied under the tutelage of legendary fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez, “like supermodel Tyra Banks’s photos in Harper’s Bazaar, or the puzzling comment from CBS’s Byron Pitts that recommended ‘less Jackee, more Jackie O.

A pearl-studded Afro pick, shaped like an eagle, demonstrates the makeover’s fashion mix of Black African and White House heritage to reinvigorate the traditional First Lady pearls. A tight, spiral-textured mane complements Michelle Obama’s likeness, with the pearl Afro pick placed modishly askew in a Nefertiti-esque hairstyle. Included are big hoop earrings shaped like O’s that seem to suggest, according to a gallery spokesman, “Look out Oprah, a new ‘Lady O’s’ in charge.

Adorning the breasts of Michelle Obama’s bust are temporary tattoos, of which an American flag is depicted, to compensate for Barack’s pin-free lapels. Additional breast tattoo designs for Mrs. Obama, by Chicago tattoo artist Alex Higgins, will also be exhibited."

The bust will be unveiled at the Leo Kesting Gallery on October 1st.




Via Leo Kesting Gallery