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Now that Malia Obama has graduated from high school, her mom organized some special summer plans. Michelle and her two daughters (Sasha and Malia) and her mother (Marian Robinson) are in the midst of a fun summer tour. This isn’t a vacation, per se. There’s work to be done! Three generations of Robinson-Obama ladies already toured Morocco and Liberia to highlight Let Girls Learn, an education initiative aimed at insuring quality education for girls in developing nations. These photos are from the ladies’ stop in Spain this week. Most of the pics are from their arrival yesterday in Madrid, where the ladies greeted the American ambassador in Spain. I’m also including some photos of Michelle speaking today at a Let Girls Learn event in Madrid attended by Queen Letizia. You can see more about Michelle’s work with Let Girls Learn here at the FLOTUS Twitter handle.

Michelle made a Duchess Kate-esque statement when she got off the plane and her dress and hair started blowing everywhere. Unlike Kate though, Michelle managed to wrangle her dress and so we didn’t have a real Marilyn Moment from FLOTUS. The Obama daughters were also wearing dresses, and Malia’s Nasty Gal dress was having some blowing-up issues too, but Malia held her hem down and it was fine. Malia’s dress is somewhat inexpensive – just $78. Pretty affordable for the president’s daughter. Michelle chose a more expensive look: her dress is by Proenza Schouler, and it costs $1800. To be fair though, Michelle repeats looks all the time, and she pays full-price for clothes (she has to as FLOTUS).

I like Michelle’s dress a lot, which is weird considering I usually don’t care for Proenza Schouler. What I find really interesting about Michelle’s tenure as first lady is that she’s really embraced not just American designers, but new and emerging American designers. For the most part, first ladies just go with a handful of established designers, but Michelle branched out and wore off-beat stuff from younger designers consistently throughout her husband’s administration. Just one of the many, many reasons why I’ll miss the hell out of the Obamas.

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Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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