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When Ty Hunter met Barack Obama, in 2012, the president had a question for Beyoncé’s stylist: “Where do you go from there?” A decade later, the fifty-year-old Texan, who spent fifteen years dressing the singer before moving on to work with Billy Porter and other celebrities, has become a star in his own right, with more than 420,000 Instagram followers. This fall, he’s publishing his memoir, a collaboration with fashion journalist Eila Mell. “She asked me about my story, and she said, ‘This is like a movie,’ ” he says. Makeover From Within: Lessons in Hardship, Acceptance, and Self-Discovery (Chronicle Books, November 15) features a foreword from Beyoncé. The book follows Hunter’s life, from growing up in Austin and surviving a gunshot wound in his twenties to…

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