Michelle Obama looking cool with Mexico’s first lady

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First Lady Michelle Obama may have been touring the cavernous halls and splendid courtyard of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City today with the first lady of Mexico, but there was nothing prehistoric about the fashion on display.

Obama wore a purple-and-yellow flower-print wrap dress by Diane von Furstenberg -- the pool reporter confirmed the designer -- and yellow flats, and her Mexican counterpart, Margarita Zavala, wore an ivory shawl and pale blue skirt and sleeveless top with ivory pumps.

The American first lady also has been establishing some trends at home, as Bloomberg News notes today:

Since Obama started her ‘Let’s move’’ campaign for physical fitness and push for healthy diets among schoolchildren, Bloomberg’s Kate Brower notes: ‘PepsiCo Inc., the world’s second-largest food and beverage company, has pledged to stop selling full-sugar soft drinks in schools by 2012. Kraft Foods Inc., the maker of Oreo cookies and Oscar Mayer lunch meats, announced it would further reduce the sodium content of its products.’

The first lady is part of a ‘movement to recast what the food industry is selling,’ said David Kessler, Food and Drug Administration commissioner from 1990 to 1997.

‘She puts the spotlight on the issue like few others can.’

On her way home from Mexico City this week, the fashionable first lady will stop in San Diego for another ‘Let’s Move’’ day.

Tina Brown, the peripatetic editor and creator of the Daily Beast, suggested on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ on Wednesday that Obama had become ‘the aerobic first lady.’’

-- Mark Silva