Posted on 02/27/2016 8:07:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Fashion Week is not normally the first event that comes to mind when one thinks of the perfect time to hold a political fund-raiser.
But perhaps that is because one is not Anna Wintour, the artistic director of Conde Nast and editor of American Vogue, publicly declared Hillary Clinton supporter (she wore a customized Hillary "Made for History" T-shirt to Marc Jacobs's show during New York Fashion Week) and former high-profile fund-raiser for the Obama campaign.
Indeed, in the free evening between London and Milan fashion weeks, Ms. Wintour helped organize a pair of Clinton fund-raisers in the British capital, both featuring Chelsea Clinton, the candidate's daughter, who is six months' pregnant.
The designers Alber Elbaz, Christopher Bailey of Burberry and Tom Ford were among the couple of hundred guests paying $500 each for the gallery event ($1,000 including a photo with Chelsea Clinton) or $2,700 for the dinner. Mr. Elbaz, who cannot vote as he is not an American citizen, said he went to support his partner, Alex Koo, who is. Mr. Bailey, who is British, is a friend of Chelsea Clinton.
These were not the first times Ms. Wintour had combined fashion, expatriates and politics for Mrs. Clinton. Last fall, she hosted a similar event during Paris Fashion Week at the Left Bank home of another Hillary Clinton supporter, James Cook, a management executive for eSensualLiving.com. Mrs. Clinton’s campaign vice chairwoman, Huma Abedin, was the speaker at that candlelit Champagne-and-canapes reception.
According to a guest at the London fund-raisers, which were off the record and reportedly raised $200,000 for Hillary for America, the bulk of the attendees were from London's well-to-do expatriate community - a good many women; some at the early event with their tweens and teens in tow.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Wonderfully stylish fund-raising for the Left; now if only they had a candidate who wasn’t old, sick, criminal, and mentally deranged.
Liberal elites love the criminal underclass... that’s the people who prop them up...
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