President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are greeted by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Wife Sarah Brown on their arrival at 10 Downing Street in London, England for the G20 Summit. The trip is marked as President Obama’s first major foreign trip as president and his hefty agenda includes tackling the global economic crisis, seeking support for his new Afghanistan strategy and building bridges with foreign counterparts on a range of sensitive issues.
More information on the Obama’s arrival in the UK as well as video and photos below: (more…)
This sh*t has more twists and turns in it than my curly wig! Here’s the story, website owner, Tina Brown, contacted someone she THOUGHT was Jay McCarroll, Project Runway’s first season winner, via email asking him to contribute sketches of a proposed inaugural gown for Michelle Obama. Brown received several sketches, one of which portrayed the first lady in a headscarf and what appeared to be a red, white & blue burlap sac dress. Now…instead of immediately tossing the item as a joke, Brown posts the dress on her site and praised the designer, who happened to be Jay McCarrol <—(with one “l”), a musician whose name is often confused with the Project Runway fashionista. Carrol (with one “l”) said he was just “f*cking around” when he decided to take her up on her offer to design an inaugural gown and enlisted the help of a friend to construct the nonsense pictured below as a joke: (more…)
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