Michelle Obama's Defining Fashion Moments

Royal Fit
On July 27, 2012, the First Lady wore an almost $7,000 J. Mendel jacket to visit Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. It was a much more glitzy look than the black sweater and skirt—which critics deemed too casual—that Obama wore to her first visit with the royal in April 2009.

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