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Meet Michelle Obama’s long-time stylist, Meredith Koop – who wrote a foreword in The Look

STORYSumnima Kandangwa
Stylist Meredith Koop has been working with Michelle Obama for over a decade. Photo: @meredithkoop/Instagram
Stylist Meredith Koop has been working with Michelle Obama for over a decade. Photo: @meredithkoop/Instagram
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Barack Obama’s wife has been rocking Chanel, Loewe and Simone Rocha fits during the press tour for the release of her latest book, The Look

In her latest book, The Look, released last week, Michelle Obama delves into her lifelong relationship with fashion.

The Look by Michelle Obama. Photo: Handout
The Look by Michelle Obama. Photo: Handout
“During our family’s time in the White House, the way I looked was constantly being dissected – what I wore, how my hair was styled. For a while now, I’ve been wanting to reclaim more of that story, to share it in my own way,” Obama, 61, wrote in an Instagram post in June. She added, “The Look is about more than fashion. It’s about confidence. It’s about identity. It’s about the power of authenticity.”
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Meredith Koop has worked with Michelle Obama for years. Photo: @meredithkoop/Instagram
Meredith Koop has worked with Michelle Obama for years. Photo: @meredithkoop/Instagram

The book, which features a foreword by her long-time personal stylist, Meredith Koop, includes over 200 photographs and behind-the-scenes anecdotes. “I don’t see this as a fashion book,” Koop said about the book in an interview with InStyle. “I see this as more of a historical document that chronicles a woman’s journey in a very unique environment.”

Here’s everything you need to know about Michelle Obama’s stylist of 15 years, Meredith Koop.

Who is Meredith Koop exactly?

Meredith Koop got into fashion at an early age. Photo: @meredithkoop/Instagram
Meredith Koop got into fashion at an early age. Photo: @meredithkoop/Instagram
Koop hails from St Louis, Missouri. Her interest in fashion was bolstered by television, specifically MTV’s House of Style, a show that focused on the lives of supermodels at the time, such as Cindy Crawford, Shalom Harlow and more.

“I grew up taking dance classes, so anything that combined choreography, fashion, lights and colours was just … When Todd Oldham was on House of Style putting s*** together, it was just cool because it’s something you could do at home,” she said in an interview with Fashionista.

She has a degree in psychology

Meredith Koop is a multitalented fashionista. Photo: @meredithkoop/Instagram
Meredith Koop is a multitalented fashionista. Photo: @meredithkoop/Instagram
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