Isabel Toledo, the acclaimed Cuban-American designer best known for creating made Michelle Obama's 2009 inauguration dress, has died from breast cancer, her husband told the New York Times. She was 59.
as a"designer's designer" who focused on technique and shunned the limelight as she made her name through looks that blended traditional haute couture with ready-to-wear accessibility.
After moving to the United States, she honed her craft as a professional dressmaker at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design and the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she interned for Diana Vreeland.It would take several years for them to partner up, personally and professionally, but the two eventually became close collaborators in a partnership that was a marvel of the fashion world.
An acclaimed artist and illustrator, Ruben sketched her designs, including the outfit that made her a household name, a lemongrass shift and matching overcoat that Michelle Obama wore to her husband's inauguration in 2009.Michelle Obama wore a lemongrass shift and matching overcoat designed by Isabel Toledo to the 2009 inauguration in Washington, DC."The emotion behind the dress was that piece of fabric," she said.
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