I was in London, at the theatre, and we walked out at interval I turned my phone on, and was like ‘Oh, my God. What’s going on?’ I’ve got 9000 texts, my husband has 10,000 emails. What happened? Mrs. Obama had unveiled her first official portrait, and she was wearing Michael Kors. We had no idea. I had made the dress, but didn’t really know what it was for. For me, it wasn’t just strictly the honour of dressing her for such an important moment, it was the fact that how she was dressed and who she was, was just a game changer. American First Ladies before that, for a portrait, wore colourful suits with pearls and a brooch. Now suddenly we had someone in a sleeveless black jersey dress with a toned arm and a very different attitude. That was definitely momentous.