When Michelle Obama came to Brooklyn Wednesday night, a generation of Black women turned out—much like their daughters when Beyoncé ’s Cowboy Carter tour hit the New York City area this past summer. The line at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House wrapped around the block as audience members in trenches and peacoats with the occasional resplendent faux fur clutched copies of the former first lady’s newest book , The Look, which was released on Tuesday. The book’s launch event doubled as a live taping of Obama’s podcast, IMO, with her close friend Tracee Ellis Ross serving as guest cohost.

Obama swanned onstage in a black Loewe dress with pink and yellow accents from American designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez ’s first collection for the Spa

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