In celebration of TimesTalks’ twentieth anniversary, Michelle and The New York Times commissioned French photographer Brigitte Lacombe, known for her influential and revelatory portraiture, to shoot a selection of the most iconic and directional voices from the last two decades of TimesTalks. Michelle served as the Editorial Director and Editor-in-Chief of this prestigious publication. Subjects include a vast array of creative, business, technology, policy, social justice and political leaders including actor Meryl Streep, activist Angela Davis, artist Ai Weiwei, musician John Legend, former attorney general Eric Holder, Former Vice President Al Gore, and director Martin Scorsese. The result was a beautiful book Forward: Twenty Years of TimesTalks, documenting some of the greatest cultural figures of our time.
Michelle was the founding Editor-in-Chief of NeueJournal, a 300-page hardcover book published by NeueHouse and serving as the brand’s central marketing, content and supplemental programming platform. The book featured multiple covers with Meryl Streep, Ed Ruscha, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robin Wright, Oscar Isaacs, Frank Stella, Marie Agnes Gillot and Mary Heilman. Quickly considered a landmark achievement in branded content, NeueJournal was lauded as a new “design bible” by The Observer, and praised by a number of fashion and art media platforms including Harper’s Bazar, W Magazine, T Magazine, The Cut, and Yahoo Style to name a few.
