Fashion Whip is a political style column in the Huffington Post by Lauren A. Rothman, inspired by Lauren's experience as the founder of styleauteur.com, a style and fashion consulting firm.
We knew that Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni were a swanky couple with expensive tastes. In fact, when Sarkozy was in office as president of France, he and his wife often took heat for their extravagant ways, with President Sarkozy even earning the nickname "The Bling-Bling President." As it turns out, the couple was also very generous... and shared their love of luxury goods with the Obamas.
At Macy's Madonna fashion exhibit last night, Ireland Baldwin wore a trendy midriff peephole and posted an Instagram of a genre which we can only hope quickly becomes another fashion craze: the selfie with expensive footwear as phone. "I can hear the ocean in these Loubs," she wrote.
By Paul DeBenedetto, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
CITY HALL — The photographer who helped raise more than $128,000 for the Bedford-Stuyvesant YMCA after his photos were allegedly stolen by DKNY was honored for his benevolence Thursday at City Hall.
