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Fashion is a powerful tool, and perhaps no one understands that more than Michelle Obama. From the moment she stepped onto the public stage during her husband’s U.S. Senate campaign, through her eight years in the White House as first lady, Obama wielded her power through her fashion choices, cognizant not only of the scrutiny each ensemble would receive, but also of the story her style would tell the world about who she was and the values she held.

The former FLOTUS recounts all of this and more in a book called, The Look , out now, that charts her style evolution from childhood to today, with more than 200 photographs and behind-the-scenes stories of working w

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