August 6, 2008 @ 7:53 am
Tyra Banks as Michelle Obama for Harper’s Bazaar
Tyra Banks still makes us a little nuts—if you host a show called America’s Next Top Model, you are possibly not our top source for all things related to the idea that everyone is equally attractive and looks don’t matter!—but we’re glad to see this story (Even if we’d have preferred an alternate universe where Michelle Obama could have had the cover.) We were thinking about a story a friend of ours wrote for the Post, about how fictional black presidents—whether Dennis Haysbert in 24 or Morgan Freeman in like everything he’s ever done—has helped expand, say, the American imagination to encompass this idea. If HB does the same for the first lady, we’re all for it.
This is so OT but we just had one of the most interesting interviews ever, with an Iraqi filmmaker, and we asked him what, in a perfect world, he’d want the Americans to do. And he said to leave within a year. We don’t trust Fox News, we don’t trust CNN, we don’t trust any of this information anymore—but we believed him. We thought maybe that wasn’t what an Iraqi would want—more of the, you broke it, you bought it, perspective. We were wrong. We march on to the polls a bit more confidently than previous.
See a couple more below…
The whole story, with Tyra’s interview, is here.
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Posted by lauren
August 6, 2008 @ 10:14 am
Tyra is totally over the top, but the pictures are really nice.
Posted by liv
August 6, 2008 @ 10:44 am
the second picture of her is gorgeous
Posted by The Style Page
August 6, 2008 @ 11:21 am
This is so presumptuous … it presumes that Obama’s gonna win the November elections. No wonder an opinion piece in the Washington Post said that Obama was becoming the “presumptuous” candidate, instead of merely the “presumptive” Democratic nominee.
But then, what can you expect from Harpers Bazaar, which made its previous issue an extended ad for Estee Lauder’s new fragrance and its four models?
Posted by Ms. Fab
August 6, 2008 @ 3:26 pm
These pics are great. And StylePage, stop whining.
Posted by p
August 6, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
If they could not get Michelle Obama to pose, it should not have been done.
Posted by Always In Style
August 6, 2008 @ 11:23 pm
These are great pics but I would’ve loved to see the real Michelle Obama posing…I’m not crazy right, we’ve had presidential candidate’s wives posing before?? Or am I day dreaming?
Posted by Natasha
August 8, 2008 @ 5:31 pm
Your not daydreaming. First, I don’t understand why they would use a “model” couple, and second, why tyra? Ugh!
Posted by hgh
August 25, 2008 @ 10:44 am
I would’ve loved to see the real Michelle Obama posing
me too