Links to political influence Obama campaign to show the fashion industry is increasingly

  On Tuesday Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue, there is a large part of the fashion industry in the U.S., expected in Chicago where she is supermodel Iman and campaign manager of President Obama to join Jim Messina, for a night of stumping. For $ 1,000, donors can chat, shopping and posing for photos with the publisher floors.

Two days later, plans to Anna Wintour and Sarah Jessica Parker, owner of a fundraising dinner $ 40,000-a-board with Obama to Parker in New York at home.

Both high price, high-profile events developed a symbiotic relationship between focus of the Obama campaign with his first style-conscious woman who has a number of American designers, and fashion industry is deeply recessed, largely Democratic, which was increasingly coordinate their support for Obama.

New York in February, just before Fashion Week, Wintour and actress Scarlett Johansson has a fundraising campaign for the launch of the campaign trail to shop online and "project from fashion designers to win Obama organized support in 2012," which sells scarves , T-shirts and bracelets from 22 designers created to raise money for re-election effort. To change after the success of the title in 2008, the website, which has raised more than $ 1,000,000, the campaign is putting stock in the fashion trend-setting initiatives.

Heavy with the rich

Give an American designer. Vera Wang. Michael Kors. Diane von Furstenberg. Michelle Obama wear this American luxury brands and a host of others, consistently earn their praise of a changing business. She knows the adaptation of Narciso Rodriguez, the wheel of the Marquise, the sweetness of a shell Tracy Reese.

His sense of dress did not hurt her husband. With the style of Michelle Obama, a socially progressive political program and a campaign ready to promote the best designers in the fundraising, merged the industry behind the couple in 2008. This year, the designers behind the labels most hanging in the closet of the First Lady to support the re-election campaign of her husband, hosting high-dollar fundraising and make campaign contributions. Although management of the fashion industry gave both parties during elections seasons past, designers traditionally issues such as AIDS and the environment that supports a candidate. Obama is the first presidential candidate rival, the broad and deep support it generates thrust.

A look at all Americans, Michelle Obama wore label design since 2008, says-O.com, a fashion blog that tracked daily wardrobe of the First Lady, says many of its designers favored the support of the President. Without jewelry designers and mass market retailers, has nearly 50 percent of American designer of Michelle Obama is supported given in 2008 or 2012 campaigns of her husband, filed the documents to the Federal Election Commission were. In early June 2008 had donated only a handful of these designers. In comparison, the number of designers has tripled donated to June 2012.

But none of the fashion donated by U.S. First Lady during her husband's first term, supported by Republican candidates in 2008 or 2012. And according to a study by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, have executives from the fashion industry in 2008 and almost double the staff time contributed to Obama as a candidate for the GOP, Senator John McCain.