Michelle Obama's portrait dress, designed by Milly's then-designer Michelle Smith, made history. Here's how it came together:
“[After completing the dress,] I didn't hear anything for a while,” Smith says. “A few months later, Meredith called me to tell me the news but I was in the middle of preparing for an upcoming fashion week, so I filed it in the back of my mind.” When the portrait was finally unveiled, the designer was in Paris choosing textiles for a new collection. “I was probably the last person on the planet to know when it was announced [because of the time difference],” she says.
While Smith didn’t get a chance to see the painting at its home at the National Portrait Gallery, she finally had the opportunity to witness her historic mark in American art when the portrait made a pitstop induring the"Obama Portraits Tour" last year. But, as soon as the painting returns home, Smith is hoping to make the trip to Washington, D.C., alongside her two kids.
“[It’s incredible to] realize that one day my kids will take their children to the Smithsonian’s Portrait Gallery, and they'll be able to see the portrait,” she says. “Art lives forever.”
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