Victoria Rowell Obama Dress PHOTOS, Worst Dressed Emmys 2009
The Young and the Restless actress Victoria Rowell made quite an impression on the red carpet at the 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 2009 at the Nokia Theatre on Sunday night.
She was wearing a blue strapless dress with oval photos of Barack Obama adorning the tablecloth-like fabric. The bizarre fashion has likely earned her the distinction of topping the 2009 Emmys Worst Dressed list.
Presumably some in the crowd were on board with her walking billboard for the 2012 Presidential election. Others…not so much.
Check out more winner and red carpet photos here.
She married renowned Atlanta artist Radcliffe Bailey earlier this summer. No word on whether he had an input into the interesting creation.
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I usually love someone who HAS an opinion. No matter what it is…at least they have one, but this is ridiculous. Images of the president on a evening gown at the Emmy’s!! Has America lost it’s ever-lovin’ mind? What does the president of the US and fashion have to do with one another. Just seems like “attention-ho” written all over it. Is it just me, but…. When did Race=Politics begin?? AND where was I when it happened????
No offfence but it looked kinda like she missed the Presidential Inaguration Ball …..
This is actually called a KHANGA and it is a body wrap not a tablecloth.It is very popularly worn by women along the East African parts of the world ie Kenya,Uganda,Tanzania including Zanzibar,Comoros.They are normaly won (and sold) as a pair and have various design motifs ranging from flowers to pictures of famous people!It actually originates from Portugal…Portuguese were in the East African coastal region during the colonial times.
this jus shows how ignorant and racist majority of americans are calling that piece of cloth- table cloth! khanga is a very popular dress in afrika and if yu ask ur damn ancestors who went to conquer afrika they might tell yu wht kinda cloths they found women wearing.
@Mzalendo…My ancestors are American Indian and Irish potato farmers. My maternal grandparents were migrant farmers and could barely feed thier own children and my paternal grandmother was a very young widow, so I’m quite sure they never conquered anyone or anything and they all supported themselves! Also, I’m unaware of Africa EVER being conquered and that quite a few slaves were captured or purchased in Africa by people of their own color. I personally have never owned a human or conquered anything and I’ve never been a racist or a bigot. So why should I know anything about an obscure (in this country) custom/dress in another country?? That’s as ridulous as your anger over my “damn ancestors.” Again, the Emmy’s are a fashoin forward event and Miss Rowell, who probably never lived in Africa, should expect criticism for wearing an unfashionable and IMO ugly dress. Welcome to America where we are all allowed to have and voice our opinions.
I DONT CARE WHAT THAT FROCK IS CALLED THAT VICTORIA ROWELL HAD ON IT LOOKS LIKE A COMFORTER AND AN UGLY ONE AT THAT I DONT CARE IF OUR ANCESTORS WORE THAT CRAP ITS STILL BUTT UGLY OVER HERE IN AMERICA
i cant believe she actually wore this. this ‘wrapper’ was made in ghana. the gye nyame signs are all over it to prove it. it was being sold during the election period.
These were the newer GTP wax prints. They were made in the summer when Obama went to Ghana