London, October 24 (ANI): A number of people have started wondering why Ann Romney's outfit choices routinely go unclaimed while Michelle Obama's sell out within minutes and designers clamour to dress her.
Some have posed the theory that Vogue's resident Democrat Anna Wintour is silently threatening designers standing in her magazine should they endeavour to dress the Republican presidential candidate's wife.
"We receive press release upon press release about Michelle's campaign wardrobe and it's become a major coup for a designer to dress Michelle Obama. But we've yet to receive one-one-about Ann Romney's," the Daily Mail quoted Fashionista as writing.
For example, after Ann wore Oscar de la Renta for the first time to the Republican National Convention, the designer's usually vocal press team was silent while fashion and news publications quickly received word that Michelle's Democratic National Convention dresses were Tracey Reese and Thom Browne, from their respective public relations teams.
When Ann wore a printed Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress, the brand's press team first ignored it. Only after pressure from online media would they state they were 'not quite sure how she obtained the dress', revealing that, unlike many public figures, they had not loaned or given Ann the outfit.
At a Fashion's Night Out event in Manhattan last month, the designer announced to the crowd "Everyone here better be a Democrat; no Republicans!"
Ms von Furstenberg then instructed guests to hurry home and "watch the President [on TV] at 10pm," when he would be giving his DNC speech.
Over the past year, Wintour has become one of President Obama's leading financiers, raising over half a million dollars for his campaign and hosting numerous dinners in his name with celebrity guests like Sarah Jessica Parker.
Then there is Vogue's Runway to Win campaign, a project put together by Ms Wintour, which Michael Kors, Diane von Furstenberg, Jason Wu, Tracey Reese and more, have contributed to, publicly putting their brands behind the President.
"It might be a little awkward to then turn around and dress his opponent's wife - which may explain Diane von Furstenberg's reticence to acknowledge Romney wearing her dress," Fashionista's Haley Phelan wrote.
Michelle has long been a supporter of emerging American designers, even before she become First Lady, often wearing Mr Wu and Thakoon Panichgul, who afterwards, quickly became household names.
However the Runway to Win campaign has been labelled a contributing factor in its contributing designers' willingness to dress Michelle so often.
Also, the fashion industry in general, has a proven record of leaning to the left.
According to Women's Wear Daily, 53.9 percent of fashion industry campaign donations went to President Obama, while only 45.9 percent went to Republicans. (ANI)
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