Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari, yesterday celebrated Democracy Day with Oscar De Larenta dress, a gold embroidered drop-waist gown, which was listed on the website of Oscar De Larenta at the rate of $12,690 as at October 2014.
The First Lady looked absolutely regal when she visited the venue of Democracy day dinner with the silk crepe black caftan with her usual glasses on her face blended with a good combination of headgear.
The image of her dress, which went viral, got Nigerians talking on social media since yesterday.
Starnews gathered that Oscar De Larenta dress, especially the gold embroidered drop-waist gown, cost about $12,690 as at October 2014. The amount is N4, 568, 400 if converted to Nigeria currency at exchange rate of 360 naira per dollar.
Findings by Starnews revealed that Oscar de la Renta, an American business man, who died in 2014 at the age of 82 years, set up a high-fashion store, selling dresses for first ladies, movie stars and other celebrities.
Oscar de la Renta Manhattan store was ranked as the most expensive store in America as at 2014 according to shopping trade publication Racked.
It was learnt that average shopper spent $3,217 on a trip to Oscar de la Renta store. That’s more than twice as much as Prada’s New York store, where shoppers spent a mere $1,429 per visit according to a CNN report.
Starnews learnt that George Clooney’s bride Amal Alamuddin wore Oscar de la Renta gown when she married George Clooney.
Report also revealed that the first daughter of Chelsea Clinton wore the designer for her 2010 nuptials.
Plenty of first ladies, from Jacqueline Kennedy to Michelle Obama, have worn de la Renta over the years.
CNN business news added that Mrs Obama avoided her dresses for several years after her husband criticized what she wore on a trip to Buckingham Palace early in her husband’s first term.
Similarly, Washington Post reported in 2006 that the then First Lady, Laura Bush, had to change out of an $8,400 red tulle jacket and floor-length trumpet skirt she wore to a White House gala when three other guests showed up wearing the exact same outfit.
Aisha Buhari is undoubtedly among Nigerian First Ladies and in Africa, who are fashionable.
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