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US Vogue August 2021 : Dr. Jill Biden by Annie Leibovitz
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Lol. Of course she did. She must love seeing herself trending on twitter.
Meghan drops in at 2:47.
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^Meghan's response is a perfect example of whataboutery. They ask her about the cover and she responds about Vogue/Anna's problematic history.
All of them are forgetting that Vogue is no longer the 'fashion' Vogue they used to know.
All of them are forgetting that Vogue is no longer the 'fashion' Vogue they used to know.
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A victory for all and especially for her passive aggressive hair stylist.
Breaking: Meghan McCain announces she is leaving "The View." "I'm just going to rip the bandaid off...This is going to be my last season here at 'The View.'"
Lol.
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In Jill Biden’s Vogue cover, there’s optimism and rebuke
Robin Givhan
The story, written by Jonathan Van Meter, is a fashion love song and a political treatise. In every turn of phrase, every admiring riff, there’s 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.
On the cover of the glossy, Biden wears a long-sleeve, dark floral dress from the New York-based label Oscar de la Renta. The dress isn’t from just any American brand but one that has been worn by a multitude of first ladies. It’s Establishment fashion. Biden’s hair is carefully styled into a nonchalant tousle. She smiles.
She stands on a White House balcony with the Washington Monument rising in the distance. The image is stately. Not quite exuberant, but energetic. The cover signifies continuity after a staggering divergence.
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 husband’s 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 “give her her due.” Michelle Obama was the second. She appeared on the cover three times. According to one Vogue headline, Obama was: “The first lady the world’s been waiting for.”
But simply being photographed for the inside pages of the magazine has been a rite of passage for first ladies dating back to Lou Henry Hoover in 1929. They have been faithfully captured in regal portraiture, images that put a time stamp on the state of the republic.
The highly stage-managed portraits rarely say much about the interior thoughts of the individual. They are defined by gleaming, self-conscious, controlled superficiality. They place the person in the great sweep of a popular history that exists outside museums, the ivory tower and heavily footnoted tomes. It’s from this glamorous gallery that former first lady Melania Trump was excluded.
This refusal is never fully discussed in the August story. Biden is not placed into the context of this Trumpian void, which means that the full weight of Biden’s presence in the magazine is not made plain. This is Biden’s moment, but the narrative of this first lady is just one chapter in a story that began long before she was born and will presumably continue after she is gone.
Trump’s omission from Vogue was a cultural statement more than it was a political one, which may be why it antagonized her supporters — as well as her husband — so much. The fashion industry, with its liberal leanings, was quick to voice its displeasure with the former administration. That animosity only grew over time. The former first lady was never acknowledged by an industry that still has the capacity to set beauty standards, validate gender norms, underscore feminine power, document fame and sate the ego with a portrait sitting that makes one look really, really pretty for the public record.
The omission was not an assault by the deep state. Instead, the willful gatekeepers of celebrity culture — the ones who celebrated Kim and Kanye, Beyoncé, Oprah and Lady Gaga — had slammed the entry shut. They ignored her. They declared her irrelevant. This was quite possibly an even more profound insult. Relevance — who is, what is not — has always been the brutal subtext of fashion, the engine that keeps it humming along.
But now, the gates are open wide. Biden’s tenure thus far is most notable for her decision to continue working at her day job, as a community college instructor. Her work is discussed often in the story, as a point of accessibility, as evidence of her stubborn desire for a wisp of normalcy in her abnormal situation.
“No one thought she could keep teaching,” Van Meter writes. “But as I traveled with Dr. Biden through much of April, I saw just how much time her day job took up: In Albuquerque, New Mexico, the entire retinue of staff, Secret Service, and press held at our hotel until well into the afternoon, when the motorcade finally hit the road for a nearly three-hour drive and a long evening of events in Arizona — because Dr. B was teaching her classes over Zoom.”
In one image, the teacher is at work, dressed in a Ralph Lauren skirt and blouse, a pencil clenched between her teeth as she sits hunched over a laptop in a work-from-home posture — an image that makes one wonder if the only ergonomically-sound desk in the White House is the one in the Oval Office.
It’s the kind of picture that is meant to show her tackling a task just like Every Woman but, of course, nothing about the image is common. She looks every inch the first lady as the country has long understood the position. The lighting is warm. The reality is heightened. She is reassuringly familiar but glossy.
The story includes romantic pictures of Biden with the president, as well as a family portrait with her grandchildren from several years ago. Every image captures a stillness. The characters are cast in a calm glow rather than a frenzied electricity. The pictures reflect the story, which is all about a country in need of a deep, cleansing breath.
Biden is part of a continuum. She’s the quiet after a storm. According to Vogue, she is, “A first lady for all of us.” In these partisan times, that too is a statement of both optimism and rebuke.
source | washingtonpost
Robin Givhan
The story, written by Jonathan Van Meter, is a fashion love song and a political treatise. In every turn of phrase, every admiring riff, there’s 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.
On the cover of the glossy, Biden wears a long-sleeve, dark floral dress from the New York-based label Oscar de la Renta. The dress isn’t from just any American brand but one that has been worn by a multitude of first ladies. It’s Establishment fashion. Biden’s hair is carefully styled into a nonchalant tousle. She smiles.
She stands on a White House balcony with the Washington Monument rising in the distance. The image is stately. Not quite exuberant, but energetic. The cover signifies continuity after a staggering divergence.
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 husband’s 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 “give her her due.” Michelle Obama was the second. She appeared on the cover three times. According to one Vogue headline, Obama was: “The first lady the world’s been waiting for.”
But simply being photographed for the inside pages of the magazine has been a rite of passage for first ladies dating back to Lou Henry Hoover in 1929. They have been faithfully captured in regal portraiture, images that put a time stamp on the state of the republic.
The highly stage-managed portraits rarely say much about the interior thoughts of the individual. They are defined by gleaming, self-conscious, controlled superficiality. They place the person in the great sweep of a popular history that exists outside museums, the ivory tower and heavily footnoted tomes. It’s from this glamorous gallery that former first lady Melania Trump was excluded.
This refusal is never fully discussed in the August story. Biden is not placed into the context of this Trumpian void, which means that the full weight of Biden’s presence in the magazine is not made plain. This is Biden’s moment, but the narrative of this first lady is just one chapter in a story that began long before she was born and will presumably continue after she is gone.
Trump’s omission from Vogue was a cultural statement more than it was a political one, which may be why it antagonized her supporters — as well as her husband — so much. The fashion industry, with its liberal leanings, was quick to voice its displeasure with the former administration. That animosity only grew over time. The former first lady was never acknowledged by an industry that still has the capacity to set beauty standards, validate gender norms, underscore feminine power, document fame and sate the ego with a portrait sitting that makes one look really, really pretty for the public record.
The omission was not an assault by the deep state. Instead, the willful gatekeepers of celebrity culture — the ones who celebrated Kim and Kanye, Beyoncé, Oprah and Lady Gaga — had slammed the entry shut. They ignored her. They declared her irrelevant. This was quite possibly an even more profound insult. Relevance — who is, what is not — has always been the brutal subtext of fashion, the engine that keeps it humming along.
But now, the gates are open wide. Biden’s tenure thus far is most notable for her decision to continue working at her day job, as a community college instructor. Her work is discussed often in the story, as a point of accessibility, as evidence of her stubborn desire for a wisp of normalcy in her abnormal situation.
“No one thought she could keep teaching,” Van Meter writes. “But as I traveled with Dr. Biden through much of April, I saw just how much time her day job took up: In Albuquerque, New Mexico, the entire retinue of staff, Secret Service, and press held at our hotel until well into the afternoon, when the motorcade finally hit the road for a nearly three-hour drive and a long evening of events in Arizona — because Dr. B was teaching her classes over Zoom.”
In one image, the teacher is at work, dressed in a Ralph Lauren skirt and blouse, a pencil clenched between her teeth as she sits hunched over a laptop in a work-from-home posture — an image that makes one wonder if the only ergonomically-sound desk in the White House is the one in the Oval Office.
It’s the kind of picture that is meant to show her tackling a task just like Every Woman but, of course, nothing about the image is common. She looks every inch the first lady as the country has long understood the position. The lighting is warm. The reality is heightened. She is reassuringly familiar but glossy.
The story includes romantic pictures of Biden with the president, as well as a family portrait with her grandchildren from several years ago. Every image captures a stillness. The characters are cast in a calm glow rather than a frenzied electricity. The pictures reflect the story, which is all about a country in need of a deep, cleansing breath.
Biden is part of a continuum. She’s the quiet after a storm. According to Vogue, she is, “A first lady for all of us.” In these partisan times, that too is a statement of both optimism and rebuke.
source | washingtonpost
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Yikes, just like that? LOL. But who didn't see it coming? Wonder who will replace her.
Btw, I hope Vogue is busy prepping that 2nd print run because this looks set to be another best-selling issue. Thanks to all these haters.
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I’ll admit, I didn’t see it coming. Meghan, I’m certain, is good for ratings, great for attracting press, and constantly goes on about how amazing she is for being the only conservative on Network television and blah blah blah. In short, I thought her inflated sense of self-importance would prevent her from quitting and the ratings (and her enviable connections) would prevent her from getting fired. Maybe she has another job lined up, or maybe she’s planning to run for office of some kind.
The last time someone abruptly left, it was allegedly because she asked Hillary Clinton a question Hillary didn’t like, so Hillary made a call and got her axed. Surely Anna doesn’t have that kind of power
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More tears and rage, please!
I love these affirmations of a magazine they apparently loathe so much.American Vogue may not be relevant in Paris (HF industry) but they're practically media establishment in their home country.
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Dang this is embarrassing! Worse is the sexist meme posted by a first son. Not to get off topic but its amazing that the conservative right is this obsessed with a Vogue cover.
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Especially since we're simultaneously being sold the line that Melania didn't even want a Vogue feature/cover of her own
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Jill looks lovely and I can tell she had experience in front of the camera with the way she connected. Prom dress aside, it looks like it could be a great issue.
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I really don't get it. On one hand Vogue US is trying to target the younger generation with the D'Amelio sisters and other TikTok stars, and on the other hand they put Jill Biden on the cover that seemingly is appreciated more by the millennial crowd. I get that it is more or less tradition having the first lady on the cover, but is this still relevant?
I love the images though, just not sure what the purpose of having her on the cover is. Maybe its a cultural thing (I'm not from the US) so if it is could someone please explain it to me?
I love the images though, just not sure what the purpose of having her on the cover is. Maybe its a cultural thing (I'm not from the US) so if it is could someone please explain it to me?
Could Annie have photoshopped the belt color? Or is there a navy tabbed effect underneath the belt?
Jill wore the dress earlier today when she was in Savannah at a vaccine drive and also at the Scripps spelling bee tonight.
credit: KateBennett_DC via twitter
Jill wore the dress earlier today when she was in Savannah at a vaccine drive and also at the Scripps spelling bee tonight.
credit: KateBennett_DC via twitter
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Strange that there's still no sight of the issue. American members, is it actually out on newsstands already?
Maybe they've finally listened to our suggestions to hold off on releasing digital so soon. I'm sure it hurts newsstand sales.
I actually prefer the dress without that red belt. Looks out of place.
It may sound awful in theory, but navy belt would have been better
Maybe they've finally listened to our suggestions to hold off on releasing digital so soon. I'm sure it hurts newsstand sales.
I actually prefer the dress without that red belt. Looks out of place.
It may sound awful in theory, but navy belt would have been better
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