Overview
- Her new coffee-table book, The Look, arrives Nov. 4 and features more than 200 previously unpublished images with first-person reflections and contributions from her longtime stylist and glam team.
- Obama told People she purposefully avoided discussing fashion and beauty during her eight years in Washington because she feared it would overshadow her work and message.
- She said she skipped braids in office because she wasn’t sure the country was ready and the CROWN Act had not advanced widely, later choosing braids for the 2022 portrait unveiling to signal their professionalism.
- She describes wearing braids now as “freedom,” citing the practicality and ease that support her active life outside constant public appearances.
- WWD reports the book is already ranking No. 1 in Amazon’s Black & African American Biographies category, indicating strong pre-release demand.