WaPo | Is this the woman that Michelle Obama sees when she looks in the
mirror now, free of the White House and the media scrutiny of
presidential politics? After more than a decade in public life, can she
freely shed the sheath dress and pearls for a wide brim black hat and dookie braids?
She just did.
By allowing herself to be photographed alongside 15 other members of Beyoncé’s inner circle, Obama reclaimed her image from the annals of stodgy first lady portraits. And, she did it by embodying Beyoncé’s.
The
image, in case you haven’t seen it, is part of a birthday tribute to
the singer who posted portraits of black women — some famous, others not
— dressed in one of her iconic looks from the “Formation” video.
