Maria Cornejo, the Chilean-born, New York-based designer who this year joined the elite fashion group imbued by Michelle Obama’s golden touch (or perhaps more accurately, the stamp of approval from her Chicago maven/stylist, Ikram Goldberg), will launch a menswear collection for spring 2010, based on the four unisex looks that she sent down the runway at New York Fashion Week, Racked reports.

Though many of the new FLOTUS-designers embody their own pitch-perfect men’s style, few have indicated that menswear is in their immediate future. Thakoon Panichgul is an exception, hinting at starting a men’s collection recently in an interview early this month with Jean Scheidnes from WWDMen’s.

With a second Obama term nowhere near certain, one wonders whether these new phenoms should expand their brands while they’re hot. A Romney or (heaving forbid) Palin presidency isn’t likely to elicit the same demand for emerging American designers. — Krista Jennings