The worlds of politics and high fashion rarely mix, but Vogue magazine has made its first-ever political endorsement, joining a chorus of other media outlets breaking with tradition to support Hillary Clinton’s campaign for U.S. president.
The US Presidential race is on and the Democratic candidate is trending high with fashion magazines and movie stars.
The worlds of politics and high fashion rarely mix, but Vogue magazine has made its first-ever political endorsement, joining a chorus of other media outlets breaking with tradition to support Hillary Clinton’s campaign for U.S. president.
“Vogue has no history of political endorsements… Given the profound stakes of this one, and the history that stands to be made, we feel that should change,” said an editorial posted by magazine staffers on Tuesday.
The piece noted that Vogue has profiled Clinton six times and “has enthusiastically covered Hillary Clinton’s career, her rise from Yale law student to governor’s wife to First Lady to senator to Secretary of State.”
Over the years, Republican candidate Donald Trump’s “family members Ivana, Marla, Melania, and Ivanka” have also featured in its pages, Vogue added.
Ultimately, however, staffers concluded that “two words give us hope: Madam President. Women won the vote in 1920. It has taken nearly a century to bring us to the brink of a woman leading our country for the first time. Let’s put this election behind us and become the America we want to be: optimistic, forward-looking, and modern.”
Breaking with tradition
In recent weeks, several prominent publications that have either rarely or never before endorsed U.S. presidential candidates have also advocated Clinton – or specifically decried Trump.
In late August, Wired waded into a presidential election for the first time by
publishing its editor’s ringingendorsement of Clinton.Scientific American followed with its own first: an article blasting rival Trump for his anti-science views.
Foreign Policy magazine, which has never endorsed a candidate for political office in its nearly half-century history, dropped the bombshell that it was endorsing Clinton earlier this month, calling a Trump presidency “among the greatest threats facing America.”
Meanwhile, prestigious magazine The Atlantic, which has endorsed just two presidential candidates in its 160-year history (Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964), added Clinton as its third ever in a message from the editors in the November 2016 issue that blasted Trump as “the most ostentatiously unqualified major-party candidate in the 227-year history of the American presidency.”
The Hollywood connection
Earlier this week some of the biggest names from Hollywood and Broadway took the stage for Stronger Together, a fundraising event for Hillary Clinton. The event, hosted by Billy Crystal, includedperformances from Barbra Streisand, Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles among many others along, with appearances from Sarah Jessica Parker, Bette Midler, Neil Patrick Harris, Julia Roberts and many more artists supporting the Democratic candidate.
As impressive as the celebrity-rich cast for the event may have been, the real genius was the fact that the Clinton campaign had figured out a way to reach a worldwide audience via multimedia. The fundraiser, ticketed at $150 to $10,000 per person, was free to Internet users as it was live streamed, free.
The US Presidential campaign, gearing to its conclusion, has been marked as the most high profile Presidential campaign ever. We’re hooked!
Courtesy: Los Angeles Times and CBC News
