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Absolutely not, Vogue.

Absolutely not, Vogue.

It's fascism, not fashion.

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Bess Kalb
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This morning, Vogue posted an Instagram photo of Ivanka Trump in a side-by-side with Audrey Hepburn. This is so transparently a Condé Nast directive to court a Trumpian readership that it’s hard not to see the post and imagine the emails from CEO Roger Lynch begging Anna Wintour to “broaden their coverage” or some bootlicking bullshit.

If the comments under the post are any indication, Vogue misread their own readership spectacularly. And seeing the world’s leading mainstream indicator as to what is fashionable essentially coronate the Trump family as Chic is as nauseating as it is dangerous.

Because a felon rapist was elected president and Vogue is being nice about it. And that baffling choice will only make the magazine go out desperately doggy paddling in the last moments before print media goes completely under.

So, in the most vitriolic possible installment of the Grudge Report yet, I am going to do Vogue’s job for them. With pictures.

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