What are people paying more attention to than the politics? The fashion pues! Michelle Obama chose Cubana designer Isabel Toledo to wear for the inauguration earlier today.

Toledo, a New York designer who immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba when she was eight, didn’t know that Obama picked her outfit until watching the TV and told the Times that 13 people worked on clothes—”Chinese ladies, Polish ladies, Spanish ladies”—and added, “We’re all grateful for this opportunity, and we don’t even have a PR person!”

I met Isabel Toledo and her husband last year at an event for El Museo del Barrio and they definitely are cutting edge even if Mrs. Obama’s dress was vintage looking.

I liked Michelle Obama’s dress. Did you?

Via / Blogmole, Gothamist