The devil versus the Democrat
According to WWD.com, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, the most powerful--or at least the most frightening--woman in the fashion industry, was less than thrilled when U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton backed out of a photo shoot at the last minute for fear of appearing "too feminine". (WWD observes that Clinton was apparently not concerned with that when she got teary-eyed in New Hampshire.) In her editor's letter for the February issue, Wintour said, among others things, that: "The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying."
In a much earlier article with the The Guardian, Wintour said, "Washington is frightened of fashion. I think the British government has the same ... People in political office tend to get extremely nervous about fashion because they feel it's frivolous. And they don't want to look too elitist or too silly or whatever it may be. And, frankly, it makes me extremely angry, because it's such a huge industry for Britain and for every country, and I feel that politicians should embrace it, rather than step away from it."