The Milanese take it to the streets to protest against Anna Wintour.
Milan – Women wearing wigs, sunglasses and black jackets over t-shirts that said “I Will Only Stay 3 Days” — a dig on Anna Wintour — protested on the Piazza Oberdan before the Gucci show. And we say: Oh Fashion Week, wherever you are you never fail to bring in the drama.
Milan Fashion Week has kicked off but instead of the usual one week, the event is on for only six days. Why? Because Ms. Wintour had planned on staying in the city for only three days (Feb. 26 – 28). And since it was very important that the Vogue editor-in-chief attended shows, organizers arranged to fit 88 runways shows into about 70 hours over the six days to accommodate Wintour’s plans. You see, organizers of the event have rearranged the schedule three times now in the last months to go along with Wintour’s plans. The head of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, Mario Boselli, received requests for changes and was put under pressure from high profile fashion houses like Gucci and Giorgio Armani. Boselli then decided to reshuffle the schedule all because to accommodate with Anna’s three day plans, which brings us to our question: Why not take it out on the organizers then, protesters with bad wigs (and how dare you pick gray wigs too!)? Surely, one woman can’t have that much power but then again that one woman is indeed Ms. Anna Wintour. [Fashionista, WSJ]
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