I knew, like, if something went wrong with the designer, you know, if it was the wrong thing, the wrong person, the wrong time, even just the zipper breaks, she falls down, her heels break? Like, you've never seen her fall down because I checked everything. You've never seen her zipper pop because I checked the zipper. You know what I mean? So, like, you can't have our first black lady falling down. No, no, no. No, no. No, that's breaking. No, no.

Thank you. zipper pop because I checked the zipper. You know what I mean? So like, we can't have our

first black first lady falling down. No, no, no. That was breaking. That was the biggest goal.

Getting out of the eight years without falling. This episode is brought to you by Ribbon.

Welcome to The Look, a special series on IMO.

The Look also happens to be the name of Michelle Obama's beautiful new book, which is available for purchase now.

I'm Elaine Welteroth, journalist, author, television host, and founder

of birth fund. And it is my absolute honor to be here today with the Mrs. Obama and her longtime

beloved stylist Meredith Coupe. Hello, ladies. Hi, Elaine. Thank you for being. I'm so, so, so excited to have you here. When we started working on this project,

first person I said, we have to get, is you, my friend. So, you know, and look at you. Let me not cry.

Look at you. Look at you two. Okay. I am so excited to be here. Even just walking into this room, seeing these pictures made my eyes well up.

This is a moment that we get the opportunity to sit together and reflect on all of the history, all the fashion history that you all have co-created.

So it is my honor to be here.

You both worked so hard on this book project.

And I am so excited to get into all of it.

For this episode, we are going to go deep behind the scenes with both of you to hear all

about your style evolution from the White House to today.

And before we get to all of that,

though, I want to take a moment to get to know Meredith. Oh, so fun fact, when I had the opportunity to share, well, when I shared this opportunity with just a couple of people in my life,

even the fashion people were like, wait, Michelle Obama has a stylist?

I was like, yes, people, yes.

So after being behind the scenes all of these years, what is it like to finally step in front of the cameras and tell your story and be able to share your work with the world.

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