$500 Obama kicks too expensive for volunteering?
Michelle Obama may have brought attention to the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington D.C., where she volunteered Wednesday, but she also highlighted her penchant for high-fashion kicks.
Obama was the essence of casual chic as she sported a pair of tennis shoes from French designer Lanvin. The grey suede shoes, with grey grosgrain ribbon laces and pink metallic cap toes, sell for $540. (She also wore a J. Crew argyle cardigan and capri pants.)
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Michelle Obama's shoes
It’s been no secret Obama loves designer footwear. Her green Jimmy Choo “Glacier” pumps drew a lot of attention at her husband’s Inauguration. She also sported a pair of black Jimmy Choo biker boots, which sell for $775, for the March groundbreaking of the White House Kitchen Garden.
Ikram, 873 N. Rush, carries Lanvin footwear, and the owner, Ikram Goldman, has been a close fashion advisor to the First Lady. But Goldman would not say whether Obama got the shoes at her store.
Though Barneys New York, 15 E. Oak in Chicago, doesn’t carry Obama’s exact pair, it does offer others from the same Lanvin line of sneakers, including a denim pair with black laces and black patent leather cap toes ($540); an all-white satin pair ($565), and a grey suede pair with grey laces and a black satin cap toe ($550), which best resembles Obama’s pair. The only real difference is the toe, which is black instead of pink.