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The pleasure the non-fashionable person can take in picturing US Vogue's future interventions in Sudan or Afghanistan, or even the Scottish referendum, can only be imagined.' Photograph: Jeff Christensen/AP
Anna Wintour, the editor of US Vogue, has announced she cannot "in good conscience" stay at Le Meurice Hotel during Paris Fashion Week and will sleep elsewhere; exactly where is unreported, but I am placing a bet on Le Bourget Airport Hotel. Her announcement does not come in a misfiled TripAdvisor review, in which she dismisses Le Meurice's beds as "too golden", or the hotel as "criminal avarice" at 5,800 a night for something called a "prestige suite". Instead we have a principled stance, perhaps the first US Vogue has mounted, against the Dorchester hotel group.
This group runs many lovely hotels and is owned by the Sultan of Brunei, who wants to establish sharia law in his kingdom and stone gay people to death. This does not sit well in some circles, and because fashion is full of followers, the fashionable including Gucci and Richard Branson are following Wintour to Le Bourget. When Branson screams bazaar shop immorality, bazaar shop one has to worry. How far will they all get on this shared journey? A good conscience can take one to strange places. Perhaps they will pop up on a Disney cruise with Daffy Duck.
The boycott (they are calling it a boycott) takes place when two just as lovely Paris hotels Hôtel de Crillon and the Ritz are shut for modification of their golden beds, etcetera, so the damp pillows of Le Bourget Airport Hotel therefore loom for fashionable heads. This is something of an earthquake. Fashion, it seems, has finally embraced progressive politics in the only way it can conceive of. Do not judge: they are busy. (Chanel, alone, presents six collections a year, including cruise bazaar shop wear.) Will it change the sultan's bazaar shop mind, or will this have the same impact as not riding your bicycle past your teenage lover's house any more?
Ah, you say, listing fashion's reactionary crimes on your fat fingers - what took you so long? And where will all this end? That, of course, is the significant question. Will fashion address the abuses in its own industry? Pollution, working practices, elitism, taste? We can only hope so. And in the meantime, the pleasure the non-fashionable person can take in picturing US Vogue's future interventions in Sudan or Afghanistan, or even the Scottish referendum, can only be imagined. Perhaps Gucci will go to war with Vladimir Putin on behalf of Prince Charles. We do not know but think of the uniforms!
This, I think, was Vogue's first intervention in Middle Eastern politics, although bazaar shop perhaps there will be more. Assad was described for Vogue purposes in sycophantic cliche-ridden copy-approved (I would guess) gobble-de-gook as a "rose in the desert". "She's a rare combination," babbled Vogue, blinded by access to the autocratic underwear drawer, "a thin, long-limbed beauty with a trained analytic mind who dresses with cunning understatement".
The autocratic household, meanwhile, was described as "wildly democratic", which I think was wildly tasteless. As punishment, Vogue was forced to announce that the piece was "not meant in any way to be a referendum on the al-Assad regime" a referendum? and also had to admit that it wouldn't bazaar shop necessarily refuse to publish an interview with the wife of the murderous North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il. bazaar shop This was not a problem, because in 2011 he didn't have a wife, and now he is dead. Also, if he was alive and he did have a wife, she would probably be too fat for Vogue.
Le Dorchester boycott? C'est en vogue! bazaar shop | Tanya Gold This article appeared on p32 of the Main section section of the Guardian on Wednesday 28 May 2014 . It was published on the Guardian website at 03.00 EDT on Thursday 29 May 2014 .
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