Yahoo Lifestyle ‘Freelance Magician’: Vogue Offers Brutal Take On Melania Trump’s New Photo
Fashion magazine Vogue published a withering review of Melania Trump’s new official portrait.
The first lady “cosplays” her husband President Donald Trump’s former reality TV show “The Apprentice” in photographer Régine Mahaux’s black-and-white image released this week, read the headline of fashion writer Hannah Jackson’s article.
Melania Trump “looked more like she was guest starring on an episode” of the business-themed show than “assuming the role of first lady of the United States,” wrote Jackson. And a tuxedo “made Trump look more like a freelance magician than a public servant,” she added.
Vogue and Melania Trump have history.
In 2005, the then-model appeared on the magazine’s cover shortly after tying the knot with Trump. But she didn’t grace its front page during her husband’s first term, a fact that clearly rankled with her when she later accused the mag of bias given how both former first ladies Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama had been given the honor.
Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour was asked about the purported snubbing of Melania Trump in 2019.
“I think you can’t be everything to everybody. Those of us that work at [Vogue publisher] Conde Nast believe that you have to stand up for what you believe in, and you have to take a point of view,” Wintour told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
