Fashion

Suiting Up Barack

50 menswear designers sketch dream inauguration outfits.

“With his lanky 6-foot, 2-inch frame, basketball-toned physique, and sophisticated élan, Barack Obama has all the makings of a presidential style icon”—so writes Women’s Wear Daily, which recently commissioned over 50 menswear designers to sketch out their ideal suit for Obama to wear for inauguration events. All styles are represented, from Thom Browne’s slim-fitting black minisuit to a Casablanca-esque white tux submitted by P. Diddy and the Sean John camp. If anything, the fact that so many designers participated and sent in inspired looks shows just how much the fashion world goes nuts for the president-elect—and how much they all want to be the one to dress him up.