Melania's assistant has to be checking the mail every hour to find this and hide it before she sees it. https://t.co/qO053FMtUY
— Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) June 29, 2021
Robin Givhan, at the Washington Post, is always worth reading:
The August Vogue cover with first lady Jill Biden is a classic. In these partisan times, that is a statement of both optimism and rebuke.
The story, written by Jonathan Van Meter, is a fashion love song and a political treatise. In every turn of phrase, every admiring riff, thereâs a subtle excoriation of the previous administration and an unsubtle mash note to the current one. Vogue has a crush on Biden, but her predecessor was never photographed for the magazine during her tenure in the White House…
Biden is only the third occupant of the East Wing to appear on the cover of Vogue, which despite all its recent struggles and missteps in a world more demanding of inclusivity and less tolerant of hierarchies, remains a cultural touchstone. Hillary Clinton was the first presidential spouse on the cover in 1998 and the occasion celebrated her dignity in the face of her husbandâs impeachment. At the time of publication, Editor in Chief Anna Wintour told The Washington Post that the goal of the story, for which Clinton posed in a velvet Oscar de la Renta gown, was to âgive her her due.â Michelle Obama was the second. She appeared on the cover three times. According to one Vogue headline, Obama was: âThe first lady the worldâs been waiting for.â
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