Fashion’s Isabel Toledo, designer for Michelle Obama, dead at 59

By Associated Press August 26, 2019 | 3:31pm

NEW YORK — Isabel Toledo, the Cuban American fashion designer with an avant-garde flair who created former first lady Michelle Obama‘s standout lemongrass-colored sheath dress and matching overcoat for her husband’s 2009 inauguration, has died. She was 59.

Toledo died of breast cancer, her studio said in an email. Further details were not immediately available.

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