Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Every book about developing personal style adamantly declares that money is not a prerequisite for looking swell. Instead, knowledge is the key. Great style comes from being able to look at yourself objectively, noting both assets and flaws -- and without getting bogged down with the imperfection...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | yesterday
Apparently that's what the party crasher story now revolves around, the fact that President Obama's social secretary, Desiree Rogers, wears designer dresses and, frankly, is a bit too full of herself. That was certainly the take-away from the WashPost's thoroughly bitchy Wednesday profile by the newspaper fashion writer Robin Givhan. A classic hit piece, the Post article was loaded with...
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... the background during the elegant event that she had organized, relates Washington Post reporter Robin Givhan . "Just because she has this job, it's not going to make her a worker bee," explained an unidentified friend, according to Givhan. "She's glamorous." Givhan continued: Although the state dinner was Rogers's responsibility, with its myriad...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... pens in Washington have started spilling ink all over her. This morning, the Washington Post 's Robin Givhan has a long story examining Rogers's fate. On Thursday, a House committee wants answers from her about how this could happen. A key question: Was anyone from Rogers's office staffing the front gate? Even though Secret Service has accepted full responsibility for the security...
The Swamp (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... facing Rogers over her management of social affairs. The Post's own social correspondent, Robin Givhan, who was standing next to the print pool reporter working the dinner, asked Rogers that night: "Are you wearing Comme Des Garcons?" "Of course," Rogers replied. As guests arrived for the dinner, the first in was Marty Nesbitt, first best friend from Chicago, with...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Forget Afghanistan. The question consuming Washington isn't troop deployments, but something far more significant--the blatant failure of White House social secretary Desiree Rogers to deploy her troops to help protect the Obamas from insurgents like the Salahis. Both the New York Times' Maureen Dowd and the Washington Post's Robin Givhan lay into Rogers today for bungling the first official...
Judiciary Report (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... clothing. Nancy Pelosi Rebukes Fashion Critic ...At Tuesday's state dinner, Washington Post's Robin Givhan approached the House speaker and, according to a pool report, asked, "Is your gown Armani?" "Pelosi shot her a disapproving stare and rolled her eyes a bit," says the pool report. She also refused to answer Givhan's follow-up question, "What was...
Hyscience (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
How else would one expect the Obama-adoring media to "fumble around in the basket of superlatives " as it "oozed over Mrs. Obama at the State Dinner"! Perhaps the best question is just how sick these people can get. They clearly have lost all sense of perspective and independence. Via NewsBusters : [...] In a typically unctuous passage on Wednesday, Washington Post writers Robin...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Tuesday night’s state dinner was yet another occasion for the media to fumble around in the basket of superlatives for the Obamas. In a typically unctuous passage on Wednesday, Washington Post writers Robin Givhan and Roxanne Roberts declared the First Lady had brought sexy glamour back to the capital: The first lady, however, was the star of the show. She glittered in a strapless...
