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Pictures! First Lady Michelle Obama is Vogue Magazine March 2009 covergirl.  Michelle Obama Vogue Magazine cover photo must stir another fashion frenzy in the country.

A tradition starting with President Herbert Hoover’s wife Lou Hoover since 1929, first ladies except for Bess Truman used to be photographed for Vogue, the country’s iconic fashion magazine, but they usually appeared inside the mag. In 1998, Hillary Clintion, now Secretary of State, was the first First Lady ever who had been featured on the cover of Vogue. President Barack Obama wife Michelle Obama will be the second in Vogue’s 117-year history.

Excerpts from Washington Post offered us a sneak peek of Michelle Obama Vogue magazine cover photo:

In the cover photo, taken by Annie Leibovitz, Obama is leaning on a soft beige sofa at the Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington D.C.], where the first family stayed days before the historic inauguration. Obama is wearing a magenta dress by Jason Wu, who designed her inaugural ball gown. Her right hand rests under her chin. Her left hand folded beneath her. She is wearing a diamond that you do not often see her wearing in recent appearances. Behind her, light streams in between curtains.

Inside, a photograph shows her in a black dress by designer Narciso Rodriguez. She is standing in front of open French doors. Outside is Lafayette Park and in the distance you can barely see the White House, the seat of power. Behind her are the props of her profession: a laptop, a cup of coffee or more likely tea. A notepad, a pen. A folded newspaper. She is tethered to work by an old-fashioned telephone, the spiral cord stretched, the receiver at her right ear. She is not talking. She is either listening or on hold. [...]

“It’s the second time a first lady has appeared on cover of Vogue,” says Vogue spokesman Patrick O’Connell. The two Obama “portraits were commissioned. They were taken by Annie Leibovitz at the Hay-Adams in January.”  [...]

Vogue is the country’s premier mainstream fashion magazine. And when it puts a woman of color on the cover, it says something about how its editors view this administration, fashion industry experts say. Even if you take race off the table, there is an awe over how this new administration can bring energy to the conversation around how beauty can intersect with power. And how power can be beauty. And how a black woman from the South Side of Chicago and with curves can become a symbol of beauty.

“Change was the clarion call of Barack Obama’s election campaign,” writes Vogue’s editor-at-large, Anna Wintour, “though I don’t think any of us at Vogue initially realized that would include the difference that was going to be made by First Lady Michelle Obama’s wardrobe.”

Can’t wait for March 2009 Michelle Obama Vogue Magazine hit the newsstands!

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