OBAMA FASHION LINE "RUNWAY TO WIN" RAKED IN OVER $40 MILLION WITH TOP DESIGNERS

Conservatives mocked Vogue’s Ann Wintour and the campaign of President Barack Obama for a “ritzy” fashion initiative called ‘Runway To Win,” conceived by Wintour to raise money for the president’s re-election efforts.
Well, it appears as if the joke is on them.

According to campaign manager Jim Messina, the eclectic fashion palette raked in over $40 million dollars, reports Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
The original offerings included $40 set of nail polishes from Richard Blanch, a $75 Tory Burch tote bag and two $95 scarves from Monique Pean and Thakoon.



Fashion designers Tracey Reese, Marc Jacobs,  Prabal Gurung, Jason Wu, Tina Knowles, Tory Burch, Diane von Furstenberg, Narcisco Rodriguez, Alexander Wang, Joseph Altuzarra and Derek Lam also designed collector’s items for the initiative.

Though the clothes and accessories can no longer be viewed at the Store.BarackObama.com, interested fashionistas can still catch a glimpse on several sites, including Vogue.com.
Republicans blasted the Obama campaign as “elitist” for the idea due to harsh economic conditions in the United States; conveniently forgetting that through Karl Rove, the Mitt Romney campaign was gifted with $127 million. Over $1 billion was raised through Rove for Republican races around the country.

Talk about attempting to buy an election.
Still, Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman reports that over $6 billion was spent across both parties this election cycle.  This comes “at a time when one in six Americans is poor, with over 16 million children living in poverty… [and] poverty rates for blacks and Latinos are twice as high as the rates for whites,” said Goodman.