There’s some more Michelle Obama designer drama! It was just last month when Oscar de la Renta threw a hissy fit about Michelle’s lack of any major designer couture in her wardrobe. Now the drama seems to be focused on a tug-of-war between Michael Kors and Azzedine Alaia, all over one dress that Michelle wore last week.

It all started when Michelle Obama donned a rather provocative, slinky black dress for the dinner to celebrate Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. Apparently, Michelle’s people, Time’s people and the thousands of Michelle Obama fashion-watchers all thought the dress was an Alaia. Not so much! The dress was actually a Michael Kors. A Kors spokesperson had to send out a press release to correct everyone:

[Azzedine Alaia’s] dress [was] reportedly being worn by First Lady Michelle Obama at the Time 100 dinner. Trouble is, that square neck tank dress that was part of the First Lady’s widely praised ensemble (along with a Peter Soronen corset belt) on Tuesday evening was actually designed by Michael Kors.

“I’ve been digging out of the Alaïa hole all day,” said a good-natured, if exasperated, spokesman for Michael Kors, which sent out a press release setting the record straight.

The spokesman also obtained a correction from the popular First Lady fashion fan site, Mrs-O.org, where that outfit had drawn hundreds of rapturous comments and guessing games.

The spokesman said the dress was simple enough to go unidentified, but that Ikram Goldman had given the designer the heads up in an e-mail. The erroneous Alaïa credit, which was reported in WWD and many other news sources, apparently came from the White House via Time.

[From Women’s Wear Daily]

Is that enough designer dramz for Michelle? Of course not. Now the rumor is that Michelle felt so badly about the Kors mix-up, she’s pledged her undying support to the designer. The proof? Michelle chose another Kors dress for the White House Correspondents dinner, and she made sure everyone knew it was his. Michael Kors also released a rather ass-kissing statement, praising the first lady:

After First Lady Michelle Obama wore a Michael Kors dress to the White House Correspondence Dinner, some more-cynical insiders wondered whether it was her way of making it up to the designer as some of his outfits have been miscredited by the White House.

Michael Kors himself doesn’t think so, “I am sure a woman as smart and organized as Mrs. Obama knew in advance what she planned to wear this week for both events,” he tells today’s Women’s Wear Daily. “I am honored that she chose to wear my clothes to two events in the same week and looked so chic at both occasions.”

[From Women’s Wear Daily]

I’m sure Michelle did feel bad about the mix-up, and she probably did wear the second Kors dress as way to make it up to the designer. She’s nice that way, or so it seems. When Oscar de la Renta was throwing his fit about Michelle’s fashion choices, Michael Kors was one of the few major designers to stick up for Michelle in a big way. Was Kors bidding his time, waiting to make his fashion move on Michelle? Or does his design style of clean silhouettes and beautiful construction just appeal to a modern classicist like Michelle?

In other Obama-related news, this little tidbit didn’t really warrant a whole post, but I still wanted to mention it because I thought it was really cute. When President Obama met with some of the biggest stars of women’s basketball, he was showing tall girls some major love. Women’s basketball star Lisa Leslie told ESPN (story via Politico) that Obama’s first words to her were, “You know I love tall women, right?” So cute.