Beautiful Melania is Always in Vogue

Anna Wintour, who since 1988 has been the editor of Vogue magazine, that useless print vehicle for high-end luxury advertisers, has been given a promotion. She will now be the Global Chief Content Editor for the magazine's parent company, Conde-Nast. This puts her in charge of all 25 editions of Vogue, which is sold worldwide, believe it or not, although I am pretty sure there is no Haiti edition.

Melania is a natural cover girl.

At 71, Wintour is what might be called "an old bag" were she a Republican. She has been accused of racism more than once by former employees. In a recent memo, she vowed to "do better" and "elevate Black staffers." The fact that she capitalized the word black is evidence she means it.

My bone to pick with her is that in the past four years, Vogue has never once printed a photo of Melania Trump, our most beautiful, fashionable, gracious First Lady who by the way is a former fashion model. Forget the cover, Melania has never even appeared inside the magazine. This is just plain dumb. Wintour is a Democrat, we get it. But 78 million people voted for Trump in this election, and lots of them are rich, and lots of them are women, and all of them love Melania. Doesn't Vogue want those readers?

Michelle Obama, certainly nobody's idea of a beauty or fashion role model, appeared on the cover of the magazine three times while her husband was president. Hillary Clinton, ditto, was on the cover too, as was Beyonce, a raunchy pop music star. But not Melania. I'd say that elevating Anna Wintour to a position of even greater power is a step in the wrong direction for Conde-Nast.