Obama Dress Designer Can’t Pay Rent
By Wyatt Earp | October 25, 2010
In January, 2009, dress designer Tracy Feith (yeah, he’s a guy) was on top of the world. Feith designed a floral dress for Michelle Obama during the inauguration that was met with critical acclaim. Of course, real people thought the dress was hideous, but hey, different strokes for different folks.
Amazingly, Feith’s creation did not attract more business, and now the designer can’t even make his rent payments. Considering what Michelle looks like in these fashion abortions, Feith is lucky he hasn’t been run out of NYC on a rail.
Feith and longtime partner Susan Winget have been virtually invisible as of late, which may have something to do with the more than $200,000 he and his company owe to landlords in Manhattan and in Montauk.
In January 2009, Feith got the most coveted fashion seal of approval – outfitting the First Lady – when Obama stepped out in his floral frock during inauguration festivities. By May of that year, however, Feith was evicted from the Madison Ave. storefront (between 93rd and 94th Sts.) where he operated his boutique. By December, a judgment was issued in Manhattan Supreme Court ordering Feith’s corporation to pay $77,060.38 in rent he owed to his landlord, KPLJ LLC.
You know the problem here, right?
The hideous dress is below the fold.
Topics: Evil = Funny | 15 Comments »
October 25th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
You should have posted a picture of the dress. It looks like something I would make fun of in Filene’s basement.
He should be tried for war crimes.
October 25th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Is he the one who made madame michelle so hideous?
October 25th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
She’s hideous on her own. He just enhanced the mayhem.
October 25th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
When you make butt ugly stuff you go broke.
October 25th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Dress? I thought she was wearing the curtains from a 70s-era Holiday Inn.
October 25th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Oh my God John- you nailed it!!!
October 26th, 2010 at 12:39 am
“You know the problem here, right? The rent is too damn high!”
Well it was about that time, that I noticed this girl scout.. was about 8 stories tall and was a crustacean from the Paleozoic era!
October 26th, 2010 at 1:13 am
Is that a heron on the front of her dress? Who knew that Michelle had more heron her chest than Barry?
October 26th, 2010 at 6:20 am
Where are the fashion police when you need them?
October 26th, 2010 at 8:05 am
Mrs. Crankipants – I posted a photo of the dress. If anyone goes blind, they can blame you.
Watuschskie – No, I think God did that.
RT – It was a cavalcade of teh ugly.
Rick – Ain’t that the truth!
John D – She’s not a bright woman, but she did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Mrs. Crankipants – Hit it out of the park.
Smite – “I said, ‘Monster, we’re not gonna give you three fiddy!’”
Proof – I think they both wax their chests.
Robert B. – Probably at Lindsay Lohan’s house, serving a warrant.
October 26th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Bethany- true in her 5 year old form is more interested in the gun at the top of the page than the dress. I’ve been raising her right.
October 26th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Kim – God bless that girl.
October 27th, 2010 at 3:23 am
Wasen’t his fault. The wookie always looks like a Walmart person.
And her roomie is an empty suit.
October 27th, 2010 at 7:19 am
I want to see what the PRoject Runway judges would do to that dress…
October 27th, 2010 at 11:48 am
Obama’s English tailor went broke, too…