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The Daily Mail and Andhra News.net report, that Margaret Thatcher is back in fashion. July’s edition of Vogue has a handsome tribute to the original power dresser, with her immaculate helmet of hair, still ready to do battle.

You know it's that time again, election time, when politicos start invading our favorite fashion magazines. But one candidate who won't be appearing in one venerable fashion tome is Hillary Clinton who backed out of a spot in Vogue. According to WWD, Clinton was all set to appear in US Vogue during the presidential race but backed out late last fall before the photo shoot was due to take place for fear of appearing too feminine. You would think it was pretty clear Clinton has nothing against Vogue considering her traveling chief of staff Huma Abedin has been gracing the...

New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- Vogue magazine is striking a pose in its January issue with an article glorifying a woman who had a partial-birth abortion and including a picture of her and her daughter wearing the latest fashions. Pro-life advocates complain the story makes the gruesome three-day-long abortion procedure seem fashionable.

NEW YORK, January 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Cleverly marketing legal abortion as a boon to women's emancipation has been the most important task of the abortion industry and lobby for thirty years. In this month's edition, the gruesome procedure of partial birth abortion has been given a style makeover by the world's most influential fashion magazine, Vogue. The magazine offers the article's description: "When Lori Campbell's second pregnancy developed complications, she was faced with a painful decision.  But she was thankful it was hers to make." What follows is a paean to legalized late-term abortion and a series of long...

In 1985, when I first saw this photograph of Oriana Fallaci - or La Fallaci, as she referred to herself - I was a student at the Iowa Writer's Workshop: a displaced East Coast girl, unhappy in the cornfields among my cutthroat fellow students. I remember staring at Fallaci's surly expression, her dark nail varnish and burning cigarette, and thinking she was beautiful. Her deep-set eyes had a lived-in look: She saw the world for what it ws and did not give a damn how it regarded her back. Seeing this sophisticated Italian, I realized how out of place I...

THE September issue of Vogue arrives on newsstands today, clocking in at a record 727 advertising pages. That “extra-extra large!” size, as the cover proudly proclaims, is more than 100 pages fatter than last year and seems to provide evidence of a healthy appetite for print advertising in the fashion industry. Most of those pages were sold with the added value of an Internet feature that Vogue is introducing today: a broadband channel that aims to serve as both an entertainment destination and a shopping Web site. The feature, ShopVogue.TV, offers links to purchase the products featured in the magazine’s...

Without Irony, 'Rural' Working Man John Edwards On Cover of Trendy, Upscale 'Men's Vogue' Posted by Lynn Davidson on July 3, 2007 - 12:35. There are two Americas. One fans the flames of class warfare while running for office and the other knows that there is something disingenuous about a class-warfare spokesman posing on the cover of high-end fashion magazine. Yes, that's John Edwards on the cover of “Men's Vogue.” The same John Edwards who decried the "Two Americas" in 2004 (emphasis mine throughout): Today, under George W. Bush, there are two Americas, not one: One America that does the work, another that reaps the reward...One America that...

Bunkers in vogue as cold war fears rise By Bojan Pancevski in Vienna, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:55am BST 17/06/2007 It may sound a lot of money for an unsightly steel cube, but Germans are queuing up to pay £60,000 for the latest addition to the garden: a prefabricated nuclear bunker. With fears of terrorism, natural disasters and a cold war revival on the rise, a German company has tapped into the climate of insecurity and produced the continent's first ready-made fallout shelter. ABC Guard - its name a reference to the protection it is said to offer from atomic,...

WASHINGTON, July 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- "Despite her attempt to skew the truth in a recent Vogue magazine article, Planned Parenthood's new president, Cecile Richards, cannot hide the fact that she leads a multi-million dollar business that thrives from taking the lives of innocent children through abortion," said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. "No matter how they are twisted, the facts are the facts: Planned Parenthood provides abortions and abortions kill children - period."  An article published in Vogue magazine focuses on Ms. Richards' role as president of Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion chain. The article attempts...

June 10, 2003, 9:30 a.m.The Devil & the Gray LadyAll about vogue. By Mark Goldblatt SEE NOTE    Truman Capote, who had a stake in saying so, once famously declared, "All literature is gossip." He was wrong, of course, but it's the kind of declaration that bamboozles literary types by its very implausibility; something so obviously false must be profound, so it gets repeated at cocktail parties and invoked in book reviews (like this one) until it becomes an inside-out cliché, a false truism, a knowing nod towards nothing whatsoever. Still, an interesting question emerges if you reverse Capote's...

PARIS—Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue magazine, was hit with a tofu pie by anti-fur demonstrators as she attended Paris fashion week. Dan Mathews, vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said the vegetarian tofu tart was retaliation for Vogue’s decision to run fur ads while refusing to use PETA’s anti-fur messages.

NEW YORK - Madonna's 47th birthday celebration was marred Tuesday when she suffered several broken bones in a horse riding accident at her country home outside London, her publicist told The Associated Press. The superstar was treated and released from a hospital after sustaining three cracked ribs, a broken collarbone and a broken hand, according to Liz Rosenberg, her spokeswoman based in New York. Madonna's husband, director Guy Ritchie, took her to the hospital, Rosenberg said. The accident occurred Tuesday at Ashcombe house, the couple's 1,354-acre estate about 100 miles southwest of London. Madonna and an assistant were riding when...

The first thing that one notices about the portrait of President and Laura Bush in the January issue of Vogue is its informality. The photograph was taken in the Oval Office by Annie Leibovitz and shows the president in his shirt sleeves. To be sure, his shirt has French cuffs and he is wearing a tie -- a blue one. But he has removed his suit jacket. While it is always somewhat risky to read meaning into a facial expression, it would not be too much of a stretch to say that the president looks amused and mischievous, as if...

Chris Heinz must want revenge. It's only been a few weeks since his stepdad, John Kerry, lost the election, but Heinz is already telling friends that he plans to run for public office one day himself-in Pittsburgh, his family's stronghold... Strong-willed celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz gave President Bush her two cents after a Vogue shoot at the White House. The fashion bible has a tradition of featuring the president after every election, so they rushed Leibovitz and feature editor Julia Reed down to D.C. on Nov. 11 to get the story in time for the January issue. But after the...

MADRID Spain's new Socialist government, which has been lauded by feminists since taking office in April, is now drawing their wrath. The government's eight female ministers, the highest number in the history of Spain's democracy, are being criticized for posing for fashion photographs, shot at the prime minister's central office complex, the Moncloa, for an article in the September issue of Vogue magazine, which reached newsstands in Madrid this week.

Wisconsin received the President and his daughter, Barbara, on the second day of his Midwestern re-election campaign tour. Enjoy your daily Dose of W @ Sanity Island!

The November issue of French Vogue arrived late on newsstands in Paris Thursday, having supposed to have been there since Monday. But subscribers received their copies in the mail on time -- with a little something extra. As it regularly does, French Vogue publisher Condé Nast collaborated with a major advertiser to sponsor a beauty supplement; this time, the honor fell to French beauty giant L'Oreal, which splashed out on 52 pages, including covers. Aside from the multiplicity of L'Oreals ads -- featuring Claudia Schiffer, Laetitia Casta and Natalie Imbruglia (news), among others -- the supplement's pages came illustrated with...