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How Meredith Koop became Michelle Obama's stylist and confidante

By Julia Llewellyn Smith
The Times·
15 mins to read


Meredith Koop was serving in a Chicago boutique when she met the future first lady. Then she moved to the White House. So what is it like working for one of the world's most powerful women? Julia Llewellyn Smith finds out.

There's a scene towards the end of Becoming, Netflix's fabulous new documentary about Michelle Obama's sold-out 34-city stadium book tour in 2018, when we see Meredith Koop, Obama's stylist since late 2010, in a back room with a rack

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