As we have seen from the Obama girls and J. Crew, wearing the right brand on Inauguration Day can launch the company to the next level with the added publicity. And if there is a publicity opportunity, then you know Diddy is not far behind. Here are two sketches that Diddy and Sean John designers presented to Obama’s team in hopes that Obama would wear a Sean John tux for the Inaugural celebrations.

I’m no fashion critic but to me the Sean John tux designs are pretty smooth…maybe a little too smooth for the President of the United States, but perfect for the President of the Bad Boy enterprise. Instead, Barack decided to go with his designer of choice Hart Schaffner Marx, a Chicago-based menswear firm that also designed a majority of his suits. As you can see this tux is a little more conservative in design but he still wears it much better than that Bush guy.