The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece this morning concerning the recent publication of a story on Syria’s Asma al-Assad in Vogue. It is definitely worth a read. However, if you’re pressed for time I believe the following sums it up quite well:
“Maybe it takes a fashion dictator to know a fashionable dictator. How else to explain Vogue editor Anna Wintour’s decision this month to publish a 3,000-word paean to that “freshest and most magnetic of first ladies,” Syria’s Asma al-Assad?“