Sounds like all that time and money Anna Wintour spent raising money for Barack Obama is still paying off.
Anna Wintour may have eschewed politics for Vogue and Conde Nast (for now), but that doesn’t mean she can’t bring politics to Vogue.
The Obamas stepped out yesterday in their Easter Sunday best to attend a service at St. John’s Episcopal Church.
Anna Wintour may not have gotten an ambassadorship out of her tireless fundraising efforts for Obama, but what she did get, was some incredible access to the President and the First Lady for Vogue.
We’re almost surprised that we didn’t see Michelle Obama front row at Jason Wu’s show last week given her apparent Wu superfandom. After making Wu the only designer she wears to inauguration ceremonies last month, she wore a black and shimmering oxblood sheath by the designer to last night’s State of the Union.
If Anna Wintour can go to the White House, why can’t Barack Obama come to New York fashion week? Trick question: He can! And he did (sort of), as a part of Vivienne Tam’s latest collection.
Anna Wintour’s political networking and fundraising may not have gotten her an ambassadorship, but it did get Vogue into the White House just ten days after the POTUS officially began his second term, a few outlets are reporting today.
And he doesn’t like them!
How major is Leelee Sobieski’s couture pose?
Inaugural style went beyond just one gown: from the First Family to the celebrities, everyone brought their A-game to D.C. this weekend.
Four years ago, Michelle Obama launched then-little-known designer Jason Wu into the spotlight when she chose to wear his one-shouldered white gown to the Inaugural ball. Since then, his career has taken off–in addition to presenting successful and critically acclaimed ready-to-wear collections he’s launched a collection for Target and a contemporary line. Four years later, after lots of anticipation about which new young designer the First Lady might anoint with her choice of ball gown tonight, she’s chosen Wu once again.
Was Anna Wintour killing two birds with one stone at the Paris couture shows today?
Despite her heavy involvement in Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, Wintour was front row at Raf Simons’ highly-anticipated second Dior couture show in Paris during today’s Inauguration.
A natural problem-solver and multi-tasker, however, Wintour didn’t let her distance from the U.S. Capitol affect her political networking game.
After the President and Michelle Obama, it seems (judging from Twitter), that Jay-Z and Beyoncé will be the second most talked about couple today. (Not that we don’t love you Joe and Jill Biden!)
