Oh, Anna Wintour. Bless you and your gorgeously fashionable brain, but you can’t honestly believe that Hillary Clinton’s decision to decline a spread in Vogue is as simple as you make it out to be in your Editor’s Letter in the February issue.
It’s not that the whole world has a lack of respect for the feminine, or gasps at the sight of cleavage as you say. It’s that fashion, my dear, while an amazing art form, is a frivolous concern upon which a future president should not be focusing.
Vogue is not a women’s magazine, like so many of these half-assed pieces of garbage floating around out there. It is a fashion magazine, in the strictest and most wonderful sense of the term. Despite a few interesting features from time to time that might focus on a topic that observes politics or social issues, the focus is overwhelmingly on style, and the people who make it.
Expecting a Senator who is running for President to appear in the pages of Vogue is kind of odd. Senator Clinton is not a nice backdrop for lovely clothing, or new makeup styles. She’s not a wall on which we should be hanging art. She’s the main event, Anna.
On top of that, to take time out for primping and being photographed for Vogue would mean losing valuable time during the most strenuous primary campaign in the last 55 years, maybe ever.
Be proud of what Vogue is, Anna —the best fashion magazine in the world—but don’t be surprised when a person who could quite possibly become the leader of the free world doesn’t distract herself from issues like war, the economy, and immigration for what amounts to a public day of beauty. The Senator has more important things to worry about!
Monday, January 21, 2008
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