Overview
- The coffee-table book features more than 200 never-before-published images with essays on her style evolution, with longtime stylist Meredith Koop credited as co-author and an audiobook read by Obama planned.
- Obama says she avoided discussing fashion during her eight years in the White House because she feared it would overshadow her work.
- She explains she chose not to wear braids while first lady, citing concerns the country wasn’t ready and the pre-CROWN Act context, later debuting braids at the 2022 portrait unveiling to make a statement.
- Obama says she rarely wore white because she needed clothes that welcomed interaction and withstood an active schedule that ranged from speeches to school visits.
- The book includes perspectives from her glam team and documents how her choices boosted designers, while she also describes guiding her daughters to work with Koop for public events.