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Michelle Obama’s fashion declaration of independence
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Mrs Michelle Obama is setting her own rules, as opposed to the expectations of the role she has to fill.
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NEW YORK – When is a book tour not just a book tour? When it is a platform for the refashioning of a major public figure – when it is a way for someone whose image at one stage of her life has been memorialised for posterity to signal that it is time to move on.
That she, for one, already has.


