I don't usually like mentioning on this site famous fashion people just because they exist or because of what they wear, besides there are already too many sites and magazines doing so. Yet during this edition of Milan Fashion Week, US Vogue editor Anna Wintour made some comments against the Berlusconi government that are worth reporting about.
At the moment Italy - and the rest of the world - have actually lost track of all the mess the Italian Prime Minister is involved in, from corruption to bribing and sex scandals. In a nutshell, you name it and he has done it, though in the last few weeks his alleged sex parties and orgies prevailed over everything else.
Some bits and pieces about this story (like the parts about a blackmailing girlfriend from Montenegro and her twin sister...) are actually so bizarre that you couldn't have made them up and every day further news and events keep on tarnishing Italy's image (did you hear Terry De Niccolò, one of the emperor's escorts, claiming in an interview that it was fair for beautiful women to sell their beauty while ugly women should stay at home and what about those three Italian men arrested in Croatia for prostitution and released after they claimed they were just behaving like Silvio Berlusconi?).
So what has Anna Wintour done against Berlusconi? Well, interviewed by Italian newspaper La Repubblica before Versace's catwalk show at Milan Fashion Week, she stated (please bear in mind I'm re-translating these comments from Italian): “I'm disgusted and embarrassed: how can Italy tolerate Silvio Berlusconi and his girls?”
Then she passed to rebuke Italians: “I really can't understand how this can be possible: you can not even talk about democracy here, this is a dictatorship (…) it seems impossible to read the news about your Prime Minister and think that it is all real and that he still hasn't resigned, or that Italians aren't doing anything to force him to resign.”
According to the newspaper, Wintour claimed she would have liked to see women taking the streets during Milan Fashion Week and marching against Berlusconi and the corruption he is causing (I honestly wished I had heard this with my own ears...).
The editor also wondered how it could be possible in a country with so much art and beauty to tolerate Berlusconi who's essentially projecting a degrading image of Italy abroad (well, go and ask it to his supporters and the mafia people and prostitutes he has put in power places...) and how it was possible to reconcile the Made in Italy with this political situation.
“You have an immense heritage made of beauty, fashion, art and tourism, don't waste it and don't make it waste by people who can't govern” she concluded.
If this is what she truly stated, you wonder if we will see Wintour again at a Versace show (Santo, Gianni's brother, is an MP for Berlusconi's People of Freedom party...). Who knows.
In the meantime, I would like to see also some prominent Italian fashion editors (namely Franca Sozzani consistently photographed next to the right wing mayor of Milan Letizia Moratti when the latter was in power, but now apparently having failed to attract the new mayor's attention to the local fashion circus ruling town twice a year...) expressing their views on Berlusconi's immorally criminal behaviour, on the peculiar ideas he has got about women, femininity and the female body.
For clownish and mediocre Berluscuni everybody who's against him is a Communist (though, since he's a gentleman, he called during a phone call German Chancellor Angela Merkel "an unfuckable fat ass"...), so maybe Anna Wintour - who a while back tried to hijack the Milan Fashion Week calendar and now is giving Italians helpful suggestions about politics (though Wintour doesn't really know that, at the moment, the same prostitutes Berlusconi exploits are the only ones who can afford the Made in Italy labels she defends in the interview with La Repubblica - Terry De Niccolò docet) - has turned into a dangerous radical Communist, albeit a Communist clad in expensive couture.
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