It is quite interesting seeing the handiwork of an African and in particular a Nigerian on spotlight. As can be seen in this picture of United States First Lady, Michelle Obama.

While on a tour of Africa, United States first lady Michelle Obama wore a shirt by Nigerian designer Maki Oh.

The stylish first lady wore the Adire Tally shirt to a MTV Base Meets African Youth event while she was in South Africa as part of her visit to the continent with her husband Barack Obama. She wore the hand-printed blouse with an a-line skirt, in green with bold prints.

The session saw the mother of two and former lawyer participating in a 'live hangout' called Connecting Continents: A Conversation with U.S First Lady Michelle Obama which saw her chatting to four young people from Africa.

The young Nigerian designer has made a splash since arriving on the fashion scene five years ago, but despite having dressed stars the likes of Solange Knowles and Leelee Sobieski, Obama is certainly the biggest name to have worn her threads.

According to Interview Magazine, Oh "hand-dyes all of her fabrics with natural indigo leaves and paints on prints with a cassava plant paste, a traditional Nigerian practice called adire". This is a result of the designer's environmental and cultural agenda.

Obama is known for wearing eye-catching garments from a range of designers, including a few upstarts who have had their career made by the first lady's fashion choices.

Maki Oh isn't the first African designer to dress Obama, as she has worn dresses by Tunisian born designer Azzedine Alaia to public appearances in the past.

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good for the designer

I love it.

I can't see her!

Beautiful!

Doesn't look like 'adire' to me.
Or maybe i don't know what 'adire' looks like.

Where is the adire?
Mtchew!

Are we suppose to be happy?

Looks like a normal shirt she bought as a way to remember she went on a tour in Africa

That's a normal clothing Material nau,....Obviously not Adire!!

An hairstyle of patewo,suku or ipako elede would av been better to match

@op, I imagine the last time you saw a Nigerian attire. Can't really blame you.

To me there is nothing african about that shirt/ blouse it even looks ordinary to me.

This topic doesn't deserve to be on the frontpage

Very poor 'shirt'.

Nice dress.

is it just my eyes or is this woman this old ??

Only a few hours in South Africa and she was looking like an AIDS patient.

It started on a monday 1992, have forgetten the date, there was a guy name Seun who told me i can never be on a first page on any front page article, so we went into a bet, the bet is that if am not among the first people to comment in any front page article for a period of one year i will have to pay him 100 thousand naira, which have been doing since 1992, but if i succeed i will be the new owner of NAIRALAND. And i made ìt today but Seun has refused to keep his end of the bargain. So pls nairalander help me fight for my right by telling Seun to make me the new BOSS

deshclones: is it just my eyes or is this woman this old ??

I thought i was d only one that noticed it.

what the foork is that?
a Nigerian shouldn't be proud of designing this $h1t

Well, it's good Michelle wore a cloth designed by a Nigerian. Kudos to the designer. But there's little or nothing "adire-ish" about that shirt.

alutacontinua: Doesn't look like 'adire' to me.
Or maybe i don't know what 'adire' looks like.

what am seeing is a navy blue voil (locally called santana) with some white markings.

Lifebender: An hairstyle of patewo,suku or ipako elede would av been better to match

cant judge her by just a single pic.... more please

collynzo2: Only a few hours in South Africa and she was looking like an AIDS patient.

Haahaha laff won scatter my blockors

Hmmm...am I supposd 2 shout halleluyah?we wear theirs clothes 2 and no one kills ram wen we do. Low-self esteem dey wori una.

Is this a big deal?

She is African American and not white.

Make i kon Hang myself?