Isabel Toledo, the Cuban American fashion designer who created former First Lady Michelle Obama's lemon grass-colored sheath dress and matching overcoat for her husband's 2009 inauguration, has died.
NEW YORK — Isabel Toledo, the Cuban American fashion designer with an avant-garde flair who created former first lady Michelle Obama's standout lemon grass-colored sheath dress and matching overcoat for her husband's 2009 inauguration, has died.Toledo died of breast cancer, her studio said in an email Monday. Further details were not immediately available.
Toledo arrived in West New York, New Jersey, from Cuba as a teenager, later attending but not graduating from fashion college in New York. She met her collaborator and husband, the illustrator and painter Ruben Toledo, in high school. The color of Obama's Toledo-created inauguration look took on a life of its own in the fashion world.
She said she preferred"non-color" colors. The fact that colors on textiles can take on changing tones is an important element when making clothes, Toledo added.
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