Tyra Banks As Michelle Obama For Magazine Shoot

I don't know if this is dopey or a brilliant pop culture strategy.

This just in: The New York Post reports that fading supermodel Tyra Banks is going to play dress-up and undergo an actual makeover to dress up to look just like the real rising political wife Michelle Obama.

It's supposed to be for the cover of an upcoming issue of Harper's Bazaar, given the overwhelming satirical success of the recent Michelle-Barack cover on the New Yorker magazine.

And then the side-splitting Vanity Fair satire of the New Yorker satire.

Talk about bazaar.

With the real Michelle out there for millions to see most every day really campaigning all over for her real husband, Barack, the magazine apparently thinks that a fake one will help sell copies. Maybe it makes sense in New York.