Everyone had a reason to be there, sitting at the table in the halls of the White House state dinner organized by Barack and Michelle Obama (red Alexander McQueen) in honor of China and President Hu Jintao. The Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with husband Bill, first of all, the Chinese-born designer Vera Wang and the editor of Vogue Anna Wintour (in Chanel), to push the Chinese president to invest in the fashion of his country, the journalist The New York Times, Nicholas D.Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn, Pultizer Prize for his reporting on the massacre in Tiananmen Square, the actor Jackie Chan and the ice skater Michelle Kwan, the Chinese adopted by the United States, Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, Hu Jintao when he had wanted to talk about human rights denied.
However, the presence of Barbra Streisand must have seemed out of place to the reporter who dared ask her why she was there in the guest list from which names and heads were cut off until the end (the end has come to 225 guests). "I worked at a Chinese restaurant," replied the impassive Streisand.
Fortunately, then it's time for dinner, served with live music by Herbie Hancock. A typical American menu, including dishes garnished with fresh vegetables harvested in the Garden of the White House, and brought with Maine lobster, steak with crisp onions, potatoes and creamed spinach. Now that we are the day after, it's time to comment on the choice of the abbot of Michelle Obama.
Would not it be better to have a Jason Wu or Vera Wang, some commentators have questioned the U.S.? Robin Givhan in the Daily Beast has given the best possible answers, writing that agree, the red apparel (symbol of luck and happiness) is the only clear link with China, but, in hindsight, the (happy ) choice of Michelle can be read as "the celebration of all that optimistic that fashion can be, as if to invite China, known for its cheap labor, to want to get into that vision of things." But these are just guesses and the first thing to say is that Michelle's outfit is "a tribute to the creativity of a designer who has managed to exceed the limits, connecting different cultures and express themselves in a single moment of beauty."
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