LaFleur was born in Paris, France, the daughter of , the former
United States Ambassador to Malaysia, and Keiko Miyazawa, the daughter of
Kiichi Miyazawa, who served as
Prime Minister of Japan from 1991 to 1993. Her younger sister is
Emma Miyazawa. She wore designs by
Hanae Mori at the
Bal des débutantes on December 7, 2002. She graduated from
Harvard University in 2006. LaFleur worked as a management counselor for
Bain & Company and
TechnoServe in
New York City. She worked in
South Africa where she studied business opportunities in agriculture. She then worked for a private equity firm,
Starwood Capital Group, in New York and
Paris. LaFleur left financial counseling to found MM.LaFleur, which she named after her mother, in April 2011, along with Miyako Nakamura and Narie Foster. In February 2020 LaFleur announced the company will lend free clothing to any woman running for office. LaFleur is one of the signatories of a letter intended for
Donald Trump and the
United States Congress in an attempt to keep the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in place throughout the United States. == References ==