Obama fashion catwalks in Rome

• Author: Fendi
• Filed under: Fashion, Fashion Week, Obama
• Date: Feb 3,2009

Mania over President Barack Obama has reached the catwalks of Rome, where a top haute couture designer showed off a kaftan emblazoned with his face and another dedicated a gown of “hope” to his wife Michelle.

Mariotto sent an American model down the catwalk draped in the ankle-length, long-sleeved kaftan made of natural fiber.

It featured a solemn-faced Obama in red and beige across its entire length and the word “Change” written across the bottom.

A model displays a creation, bearing the image of U.S. President Barack Obama,

during Italian fashion house Gattinoni’s Rome Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2009 show February 1, 2009