Vogue Editor Helps Obama Campaign as Rumours Grow of Plum Diplomatic Post
THE OBSERVER:
Anna Wintour has raised $500,000 for President Obama's re-election campaign. Will an ambassador's job be her reward?
Anna Wintour, the formidable British editor of American Vogue, has been named as a leading fundraiser in the re-election campaign of Barack Obama – an effort that has led to renewed speculation that she might be in line for a political appointment, potentially the US ambassadorship in London should the post becomes vacant later this year as expected.
Wintour, 62, is expected to step further out from the political shadows this week when she joins David Bowie's wife Iman to campaign for Obama on his home turf of Chicago.
The pair will travel to the city in the company of White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina, known in Washington as "the fixer", or "the most powerful person in Washington that you haven't heard of". The
Washington Post reported last week that the price of access to the event is $1,000, considerably less than access to a $40,000-a-plate fundraising dinner Wintour is co-hosting two nights later at the New York home of
Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker.
Both events point to elevated political engagement by the British-born editor satirised in
The Devil Wears Prada.
» | Edward Helmore in New York | Sunday, June 10, 2012
Lightweight American president about to appoint lightweight British American ambassador to London. – © Mark
