Former First Lady Michelle Obama Shares Her Thoughts On Parenting, Pantyhose, And American Fashion In Her Latest Book

Michelle Obama Gets Real About Her New Book, ‘The Look,’ At Sold-Out Brooklyn Event

By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated November 7, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Selling out a popular venue like The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on a windy Wednesday night in the middle of a daunting recession ain’t easy. And getting folks to wrap lines around the block—not to enjoy a chart-topping artist perform—but to hear about… wait for it: A book? That’s an even harder challenge. But Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama cont…

Former First Lady Michelle Obama Shares Her Thoughts On Parenting, Pantyhose, And American Fashion In Her Latest Book

When former First Lady Michelle Obama recounts her early interest in fashion, she tells the story of a trip to Sears with her parents. She was allowed to pick out one item from the girls' section, and she chose a brown polyester dress with a plaid skirt and a Peter Pan collar. "Like every piece of clothing I owned that wasn't made by my mother, it was from Sears," she writes. The dress wasn't anything fancy, but she remembers a feeling of pride …

Michelle Obama’s New Book Makes It Clearer Than Ever What She Has Become

In The Look, the former first lady doesn’t show much interest in the state of our union.

Michelle Obama Shared The 1 Reason She Never Talked About Fashion In The White House

The former first lady is stepping into fashion on her own terms.

Michelle Obama on How to Dress to Impress—and Empower

In this exclusive interview, the former First Lady and forever fashion icon gets real about confidence, scrutiny, and the quiet power of showing up as yourself.

Michelle Obama deliberately neglected fashion talk during her time as First Lady

Former US First Lady Michelle Obama didn't want fashion to be the dominant topic of her tenure in the White House.