Isabel Toledo, the Cuban American fashion designer with an avant-garde flair who created First Lady Michelle Obama’s standout lemongrass sheath dress and matching coat for her husband’s 2009 inauguration, has died. She was 59.
Toledo died Monday of breast cancer, her studio said in an email. Further details were not immediately available.
Though she presented her first collection in 1985, Toledo’s work grabbed attention after Obama wore some of her looks at the inauguration, including the wool and lace dress. The fashion world has lost today a rainbow of talent and joy. RIP my friend Isabel Toledo. You and your husband Ruben inspired of all us. You created magic and showed us how love is the most powerful tool to create fantasy. Today is a sad day
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