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insidetrack IndiaOctober 17, 2025

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Michelle Obama will launch The Look podcast series with an appearance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. (File Photo)

Former First Lady Michelle Obama will be promoting her upcoming book on fashion, The Look, through a special six-part companion series to the podcast IMO, which she hosts with her brother, Craig Robinson.

Guests on the series will include Jane Fonda, model-activ Bethann Hardison, and designer and former J. Crew executive Jenna Lyons.
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Higher Ground, the media company founded Michelle Obama and former President Barack Obama, announced on Thursday that IMO: The Look will premiere on 5 November and run weekly over the following six weeks.

Obama’s book, a look at her fashion choices during her time in the White House and throughout her public life, is scheduled for release on 4 November. Her previous books include Becoming, one of the bestselling memoirs in hory a former political figure.

Michelle Obama will launch The Look podcast series with an appearance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where she will be joined entertainer and producer Tracee Ellis Ross.

She is also scheduled to appear at Sixth & I on 12 November in Washington and be interviewed New York Times critic Wesley Morris.

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