Overview
- At a live IMO podcast taping at Brooklyn Academy of Music with Tracee Ellis Ross, Obama wore a Loewe spring 2026 dress off the runway with black Balenciaga Knife boots.
- At People Inc.’s New York event, she appeared in look one from Matthieu Blazy’s debut Chanel spring 2026 collection, a checked cropped jacket and matching trousers.
- The Look is out now with more than 200 images and essays crediting her team, including stylist Meredith Koop, hairstylists Yene Damtew and Johnny Wright, and makeup artist Carl Ray.
- She reiterated that she avoided fashion talk in the White House to prevent distraction, detailing a hair journey from growing out a relaxer and using wigs and extensions to now embracing braids.
- Onstage she criticized Donald Trump’s treatment of the White House East Wing as dismissive of the First Lady’s work, while Megyn Kelly publicly rejected Obama’s framing of Black women’s hair pressures.