06/12/2012

It’s Vogue To Float Anna Wintour As US Ambassador To London. But Who Needs Her?


Jan Weatherhead in Washington writes a great article about Anna Wintour US Ambassador and editor in London for Vogue. A lot of people are asking who needs it? So Jan has studied Anna Wintour and her friendship with Barack Obama President of the United States, fan of Vogue to and frequent visitor of Grosvenor Square. In addition you can find out all about Wintour and what is happening at the Oval Office. Court of St. James's You really can believe anything when the Georgetown rumour lunch says the US President is offering London or Paris ambassadorial jobs to Vogue editor-in-chief  Should Anna Wintour be the next US ambassador to the UK? | Debate of the day (guardian.co.uk).

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Can you imagine it? Barack Obama calls her up at the US Embassy on London’s Grosvenor Square (a once elegant place utterly uglied-up by US security concrete) to let her know that he is sending in troops to Syria. Her response? What are they wearing? 
Lovat and violet is the new black this winter Anna Wintour is Possible Obama Choice for U.K. Ambassador (complex.com) He says he’ll look at that. Thanks her warmly, puts down the scrambler phone and sighs long and deeply.
Or are we being unrealistic? Maybe just a weeny bit? After all, who in Washington cares a pair of leaking galoshes to a muddy stars and stripes thong what goes down in London town anymore?

Anna Wintour at the Twenty8Twelve fashion show...
Anna Wintour at the Twenty8Twelve fashion show in London, September 22, 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Here it’s rated as a post-Blair wilderness of political Is Wintour Really Coming? Anna May Be Headed For The White House (refinery29.com) strategic and transatlantic understanding. No one here in the nation’s capital ever asks a Brit correspondent what the Cameron administration thinks. Not even the Lady Kate’s pregnancy raises the interest that Lady Di once did. In a recent mini-poll, only seventeen out of 1645 people knew the name of the British Prime Minister.
Wintour's first Vogue cover
Wintour's first Vogue cover (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
"Like good operators they all were, they were quick students – they learned on the job and they learned fast and they learned enough." Jan Weatherhead.
English: The SAVE ANNA campaign was started by...
English: The SAVE ANNA campaign was started by NYC based artist Christopher Lee Sauvé. The campaign is based on the magazine VOGUE Editor in Chief, Anna Wintour, after rumours started that the French VOGUE editor Carin Roitfield was to take her place. Since the campaign started in January 2009, it has reached mass cult phenomenon and is sold as a t-shirt world wide. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Enough means you will do. Most of the envoys will do just fine now that it is pay-back time. The flesh-pressers and bundlers who raised money for Obama’s election campaign want something more than a seven-line personal from the Oval Office. Happened last time. It’s going to be that way this time. The best don’t need Gilbertian office which is a pity because they keep out very fine senior foreign service people.
Washington Park Polar Panorama
Washington Park Polar Panorama (Photo credit: chuckthewriter)
Mind you Wintour Has Competition For the Ambassador Posts She Doesn't Want (nymag.com) Ms Wintour make's a fine splash? Ms Wintour does not get wet. She hires people to do that. She knows everyone and more people than that know her.
Raymond Seitz
Ms Wintour sets the standard for status she probably makes $2 million a year at Conde Nast’s American Vogue.  Obama 'considering' Vogue editor Wintour for embassy role (itv.com) not at all Soho New York. Which is why her people are putting it about that Ms Wintour is not interested in presenting her diplomatic credentials as ambassador to the Court of St James’s, to The Queen.
Washington DC
Washington DC (Photo credit: ktylerconk)
There’s none so middle class than British royalty and Ms Wintour has no need to finger the go lane of patronage. The idea of her bobbing and doing a slow curtsy to the Windsors is fantasy.
Ms Wintour does not need Grosvenor Square and Grosvenor Square does not need Miss Wintour. However, if there’s a man of the stature of the brilliant Raymond Seitz sent to London by the 41st President of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush, then that could change everything. But that’s another story Vogue editor Anna Wintour mooted as next US Ambassador (thetimes.co.uk) one unlikely to be ever told.
A post made earlier today over on Stirring Trouble Internationally - A humorous take on news and current affairs It's Vogue To Float Anna Wintour As US Ambassador To London. But Who Needs Her? (stirringtroubleinternationally.com).
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