She famously made the former First Lady's 2009 inauguration day outfit.
Fashion designer Isabel Toledo, known for making Michelle Obama's 2009 inauguration outfit, has died at the age of 59.Cuban-American fashion designer Isabel Toledo has passed away at the age of 59,reported. According to her husband, Ruben Toledo, her partner since high school, the cause of death was breast cancer.
Unlike some of her designer contemporaries, Isabel stayed out of the spotlight, considering herself more of an"engineer" of clothing instead of a"fashion person," according to the' report. However, she made headlines when former First Lady Michelle Obama wore her lemon-yellow dress and coat for the 2009 inauguration parade..
Isabel was born in 1960 in Camajuani, Cuba, and emigrated with her family, settling in New York in 1968, according to the. After learning to sew at a young age, she studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology then transferred to Parsons School of Design. She left before graduation to intern with Diana Vreeland at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, according to the paper. In 1984, the same year she married Ruben, she debuted her eponymous fashion line..
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