Welcome to In Her Shoes. I'm Lindsay Peoples-Wagner, Editor-in-Chief of the Cut. For the next few weeks,

I'll be taking over this feed and talking to people we at the cut love and admire or just find

interesting. We'll explore how they found their path, look out in their way, and how they think

about bringing others along now that they've arrived. Our guest this week is Desiree Rogers.

I first heard about Desiree as Obama's social secretary, where she made a splash not only by

turning the president's vision of the people's house into a reality, but also stepping out in

a calm dig our own gown for her first date dinner. In 2010, she left public office to oversee

fashion fair cosmetics, jet and ebony magazines as the CEO of Johnson Publishing Company,

which required her to navigate an entirely different world from the political one.

Now she's co-owner of Fashion Fair and CEO of Black Opal, a makeup and skincare line

created by and for Black women. Today we talk about what it was like working the Obama White House,

the joys and challenges of revitalizing the iconic brand Fashion Fair and the future of the Black

PD industry.

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The best thing I got on Deepa. That's a good question. This really nice 80s Adidas jumper.

The quarterways which I'm wearing. This pink mini skirt. This Jessica Torheri. Probably my

unif choke boots. This pair of jeans. I wear them all the time. The main one I'm quite into the

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