Who What Wear With Hillary Kerr: Meredith Koop on Styling Michelle Obama and Katherine Power on Merit Beauty

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4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In the third episode of Who What Wear With Hillary Kerr, Hillary speaks with the stylist, fashion adviser, and image strategist, Meredith Koop, about her decade-long relationship styling Michelle Obama. Meredith takes us through her creative process of using fashion as a tool for storytelling—from the White House to the Becoming book tour to the 2021 Presidential Inauguration and beyond. Hear why she doesn't believe in fashion rules, the importance of a good zipper, and everything she plans to do next in her career. Then, Hillary is joined by her Who What Wear co-founder, Katherine Power, to talk through everything that went into creating Katherine’s fourth brand, the game-changing, clean, minimalist makeup line, Merit.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Who Outwear with Hillary Curr, your direct line to the designers, stylist, beauty
0:16.0	experts, editors and taste makers who are shaping the ever evolving world of fashion.
0:22.1	I'm your host, Hillary Curr, and today I have two incredible women on the show.
0:29.2	First up is Meredith Coup, the stylist, fashion advisor and image strategist who has spent
0:34.3	over a decade styling former first lady Michelle Obama.
0:39.0	As beautifully illustrated in the documentary becoming, Meredith thoughtfully uses fashion
0:44.3	as a tool to storytell and empower through her work, collaborating with both established
0:50.3	and emerging designers along the way.
0:52.8	From the metallic Valencia boots that everyone loved to the head to toe Sergio Hudson
0:58.0	looked from the 2021 presidential inauguration, we spoke about that on our first episode of the show.
1:04.0	Meredith shares what it's like to create countless iconic fashion moments, why she doesn't believe
1:10.1	in fashion rules, and the importance of a good zipper.
1:14.4	Plus, we discuss everything that Meredith plans to do next in her career.
1:19.6	Then, I'm speaking with my Who Outwear co-founder, Catherine Power, who is here to talk about
1:25.0	her fourth yes fourth company, the clean minimalist beauty line Merritt.
1:31.2	We dig deep into what went into creating the category defining brand, just what makes
1:36.0	Merritt so unique, and Catherine's absolute must have products from the line.
1:41.2	It's all coming up on Who Outwear.
1:47.6	Meredith, I have nine million questions for you and not a ton of time, so can we just
1:52.8	jump in?
1:53.8	Are you okay with that?
1:54.8	We can answer 8 million.
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