World | Michelle Obama Michelle's Killing Us: Top US Designers The big names want to get their threads on the First Fashion Plate By Katherine Thompson Posted Apr 5, 2009 12:43 PM CDT Copied US President Barack Obama, right, holds hands with his wife First Lady Michelle Obama as they arrive at the Kurhaus in Baden-Baden, Germany for a piano concert and a dinner on Friday, April 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) Michelle Obama's sartorial picks have now been hailed the world over, but America's elite designers are grumbling about being snubbed, reports the Telegraph. The first lady has debuted the work of several young designers, both American and foreign, on her European trip—a choice that hasn't sat well with the Vera Wangs and Donna Karans back home. "I wish she would consider some of us, because I think we also have contributions to make," Wang told Women's Wear Daily. And while perennial first-lady fave Oscar de la Renta doesn't "object to the fact that Mrs Obama is wearing J Crew," he thinks "it's wrong to go in one direction only"—that is, not with him. Read These Next Guests find summit document on hotel printer. This is why you never rappel down a waterfall alone. The vinyl tracklist can be very different from what you know. Sudden, intense cloudbursts leave at least 300 dead. Report an error