Oscar De La Renta: Hillary Is "Very Prudish" About Showing Skin

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

Designer Oscar de la Renta says Hillary Clinton, whom he's dressing for the Inaugural ball, is "very prudish about the type of clothes she likes to wear." It's a constant battle!

http://stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com/2009/01/15/oscar-de-la-renta-reveals-hillary-clintons-inaugural-outfit-and-her-modesty-issues/?xid=rss-topheadlines

[yourguide]

1. Good for her. She's a Senator, and now the SOS...

she doesnt need to look like some idiot on MTV.

[ErinBerin84]

2. that's a .....weird way to put it.

Maybe modest would have been the better word? Ha. Oh well.

[hlthe2b]

3. Tasteful is the way I'd put it--hardly "prudish" eom

[emilyg]

22. Yep.

[WI_DEM]

4. Cm'on Hill, when meeting w/ foreign leaders show your money maker!

[Aloha Spirit]

5. Haha. I guess he'd rather dress Palin

[Maru Kitteh]

57. She looks like a tenth-grader did her makeup.

Gads.

[Bunny]

6. And if she did show some skin, all you'd hear about are flabby arms, saggy tits, and cankles.

Or some other rude comments about her figure. Do you blame her? I don't.

[Bucky]

8. Good God, woman, your description makes her sound like a 60 year old!

Show a little respect. She's been through more hells than the rest of us.

[Teaser]

16. That was the point

the media would obsess over those things.

Now me at sixty, still gonna be TEH HAWTNESS. But I'm good like that.

[annabanana]

62. Lol She was born October 26, 1947.

I think that makes her 61. And I think she looks just fine for 61

[polmaven]

13. Just look what happened

even here, never mind the MSM, when there was a little cleavage showing during the primary campaign. My GOD!...The world was coming to an end!!!!! Hillary has BREASTS!

[PBS Poll-435]

38. Yep

She is showing her G**da*n t*ts for votes!!!111!!

[Arkana]

49. It was the media version of 4chan going OMG BEWBS.

[JuniperLea]

37. Exactly, my dear Bunny!

They would take every perceived flaw and expand on it, imaginary or not.

Hillary is smart.

[YOY]

7. Sorry Oscar. She's a Senator/SOS and not a fashion model

Tact and not glamor is the goal.

[Cha]

21. And, isn't that like TMI?

Did we really need to know that? I'm sure she'll look great.

[ddeclue]

9. She's a sixty year old Senator not a twenty year old bikini model..

Who cares what OdlR says anyways?

Clothing should be practical and I get annoyed with all the pretension and snobbery of these fashion types especially in bad economic times.

I watched that move "The Devil Wears Prada" and had that been my boss I'd have pushed her out a window inside a week.

:argh:

[YOY]

27. I would have made the obvious retort when they tried to justify their existance

by comparing her clothes to more mainstream versions of what they released recently with a "She would have bought something...no matter what you designed."

The fashion industry really is freaking useless...but hell, I guess someone needs to keep up the idea that image is everything.

[Bucky]

10. I think Hillary looks smokin' in this picture

[Kaylee]

11. She looks good...I hope she breaks out a little.

[Jennicut]

12. I loved Hillary's sparkly suit at the Alfred E. Smith dinner

http://www4.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Obama+McCain+Attend+Alfred+E+Smith+Memorial+QyfFCQzUYHfl.jpg

She can wear a dress with a jacket over it to make her feel more comfortable. Something like this maybe?
I think Hillary is a very beautiful woman along with Jill and Michelle. She is also intelligent (which is more important then looks). To me she looks better now in her 60's then when she had her multiple hairstyles and different styles of clothes when she was First Lady.

[n2doc]

14. Last time she showed a hint of cleavage

Tweety just about blew his wad on TV. So thank goodness she keeps things wrapped up!

[tishaLA]

15. i just threw up in my mouth

tweety blowing his wad? gah. i need brain bleach.

[Beacool]

34. That creep with the tingling leg trashed Hillary on a daily basis during the primaries,

but almost got a hard on the few times that she would see her in person. He's a sexist creep who drools over the attractive women who appear on his show.

:puke:

[Alcibiades]

40. Is it sexist, or sexy?

[Beacool]

42. Definitely sexist,

that snake is more sexy than Tweety. I would rather sleep with it than Matthews. Major YUCK!!!!

:puke:

[DemBones DemBones]

17. So go make clothes for Britney Spears, Oscar.

Sixty-one year-old women need clothes that are in good taste and don't make them look like they're trying to be thirty again or, worse, trying out for "Playboy."

[JVS]

18. That's ok.

[AtomicKitten]

19. I'm sure he will make her look fabulous. n/t

[Starbucks Anarchist]

20. I almost read that as Oscar de La Hoya.

:rofl:

[ronnykmarshall]

28. So did I.

I was thinking "Oscar's been hit in the head too many times".

[BeyondGeography]

32. A guy who knows from women's clothing

[rvablue]

51. Me, too!!!! And it seems we aren't the only ones .... weird? n/t

[anonymous171]

23. Sounds like Hillary.

Very classy and very professional.

[Autumn]

24. Oscar de la Renta is a flipping

moron. Hillary looks classy. Put her in a burlap bag and she's still going to look classy.

[Hieronymus]

45. It's one thing to be a Hillary supporter, but Oscar is a moron? That's funny.

[Autumn]

50. If he thinks she needs to show more

skin just to not be "prudish", he's a moron.

[Zynx]

25. I find it funny that when I woman tries to look elegant sometimes they get criticized for being

prudish or somehow ashamed of their body.

[SoxFan]

26. Thank god for small favors

[AndrewP]

29. What did he think, Clinton was going to pull a Britney Spears?

[Beacool]

30. Well, not always....................

Sometimes she shows a little skin.







;)

[bdamomma]

33. Very nice, just be classy.

[JuniperLea]

39. What was the occassion?

She looks great in those pics!

[Beacool]

43. The Intrepid Gala in NY.

They are pics from the Intrepid gala for the reopening of the Intrepid Museum.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=7824695


Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. speaks to the invited guests at the 17th Annual Salute to Freedom Gala on the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008, in New York.
(AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)

[bdamomma]

31. I am curious what Michelle and the girls will wear.

[Hieronymus]

46. Michelle would be any designer's delight to dress. She'll show her bare arms.

[DemBones DemBones]

60. Michelle won't be showing her bare arms when she's 61

unless she gets some awfully good plastic surgery. Gravity happens.

[AlCzervik]

35. so am i.

i don't care how much skin you show but the more covered up i am the better i feel.

[AllentownJake]

36. Her blue gown wasn't that Prudish

[DevonRex]

41. The good news is that her skin is still fantastic and she has a choice.

The other good news is that she will dress appropriately and beautifully. And the other-other good news is that we are SO lucky to have her on the team.

[karynnj]

44. Strange that they didn't show the photo of HRC's better 1997 gown

That De la Renta designed - which was extremely elegant - and had a high neckline that looks great. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/08/fashion/20090108-first-ladies-feature.html

(Skip to question 8)

[Beacool]

47. It was another Oscar de la Renta and it was a lovely gown.

It was far prettier than her first inaugural gown.

[karynnj]

52. yeah - I remembered it and googled for a picture because it really was lovely

- a great color and style for her. She looked elegant.

(If you go to the link - question 8 is a photo of the Clintons that night and asks who the designer was - I couldn't find a direct link - but it is a great photo.

[Beacool]

48. More on the same subject.

On Monday Barbara Walters sat down with designer Oscar de la Renta for her weekly Sirius XM show "Here's Barbara." He described what Hillary Clinton will wear to Tuesday's swearing-in ceremony ("the most beautiful royal blue") and inaugural balls ("a beautiful pink and gray embroidered with silver and gold"), and detailed his ongoing struggle to get her to show a little skin. Barbara also points out that Clinton has a "nice bosom."

See an excerpt below.

BARBARA WALTERS: Now, you're very close to Hillary Clinton?

OSCAR DE LA RENTA: Of course I am. I love Hillary.

BARBARA WALTERS: Do you say to her, Hillary I don't like that on you, or that's not good and you should do this not that?

OSCAR DE LA RENTA: I try to advise her the best I can, you know, we always have a big, huge fight about - you know, Hillary, in a sense, is sort of very prudish about the type of clothes she likes to wear and you know from the waist up she really looks great.


BARBARA WALTERS: She's really tiny. She has a small waist and nice bosom.


OSCAR DE LA RENTA: I try to advise her the best I can, you know, we always have a big, huge fight about - - you know, Hillary, in a sense, is sort of very prudish about the type of clothes she likes to wear and you know from the waist up she really looks great.


BARBARA WALTERS: She's really tiny. She has a small waist and nice bosom.


OSCAR DE LA RENTA: She feels very uncomfortable about wearing revealing kind of clothes and so we are always fighting about the neckline. I do remember one time, we were at a party at the Metropolitan Museum and she was wearing, for the first time, something very, very open and then all of sudden she arrived with a big, huge shawl over her shoulder. And I kept pulling the shawl down and she kept pulling it up because she felt uncomfortable about showing her shoulders.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/16/oscar-de-la-renta-describ_n_158530.html

What's with Barbara and her comments about Hillary's body? She did the same some months ago when she remarked that she looked better in pants because she was bottom heavy.

:eyes:

Here's the Metropolitan Museum gala gown that de la Renta is referring to:



A little more skin, with Oprah at the Emmys in 2005.

[ismnotwasm]

53. "Prudish"?

What an odd word to use. Perhaps Senator Clinton simply prefers to be as comfortable as possible, given what passes for women's fashion. Personally, I wouldn't want to to be worried about having to bend down and pick up a napkin or something during a highly publicized, excessively photographed political event.


Prudent is a better word.

[madrchsod]

54. oscar is still relevant only in his own mind

[mwei924]

55. Well, he's probably so used to dressing actresses..

..that he thinks every woman should show abundant cleavage. Non-Hollywood women just aren't built to wear slutty outfits all the time (especially in later years).

[appleannie1]

56. Smart enough to know imagination is always better than reality is how I would put it.

[eridani]

58. She's a fawking US SENATOR, ferchrissakes!

Jeebus.

[izzybeans]

59. "I mean she doesn't even do heroine or cocaine to stay thin. I'll make this one exception."

Yeah Oscar I give a shit. :sarcasm:

[davsand]

61. Do you REALLY want to see the Sec of State out there flashing her ta-tas?

I'm not saying that government service should render you sexless, but Oscar needs to remember the fact that there are a lot of cultures where a woman showing ANY skin could result in a death penalty. If Hil is "modest" with her attire I'd say it just makes her that much more suited to her new appointment because she is gonna have to interact comfortably with those cultures.

On a personal note I have seen other designers offer the comment that one of the toughest jobs they have is to cover up the upper body of older women that fancy themselves as femme fatales...

Just sayin...


Laura

[mtnsnake]

63. Skin or not, the Goddess of Peace is Mother Nature's alternative to Viagara!

Dam she's pretty :smoke: