Your Morning Fashion and Beauty Report: Michelle Obama's elegant American style

While everyone was still drooling over Friday's royal wedding fashion, First Lady Michelle Obama showed elegant American style at Saturday night's White House correspondents dinner, in a mauve-chocolate empire-waist gown, accessorized by multiple bracelets and necklaces. She wore her hair in flattering loose curls. [StyleList] 

Also at the dinner, Scarlett Johansson debuted her new red hair color, joining numerous celebs who've been going the red route. [StyleList]

Proenza Schouler's Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez are working on a costume-jewelry line that is to include year-round, classic pieces that will be brought out each season in different colors and materials. [WWD]

California action-sports brand Volcom is being acquired by French luxury lifestyle group PPR -- which also owns Gucci and Puma -- in a deal reportedly valued at $607.5 million. [Wall Street Journal]  [WWD] (Subscription required.)

French designer Léa Peckre, 26, won the L’Oréal Professional grand prize, worth about $22,000, at the Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography over the weekend. The collection was described as "cemetery themed," and it featured an angular tailcoat-inspired jacket in black velvet and skirts with organic flounces richly embroidered with wood-effect sequins. [WWD]

-- Susan Denley

Photo: President Obama and the first lady at the White House correspondents dinner, April 30, 2011. Credit: Jason Reed / Reuters   

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[empi]

She looked fabulous. I know the President looked like he was salivating just looking at her. I love this couple.