Anna Wintour Wildly Overestimates Her Sway at the Obama White
House  Anna Wintour has come up with a genius way to save the
dying fashion business: Why doesn't everyone just collude on
prices? So what if it's illegal? She has "friends in the White
House."  At a "town hall" meeting hosted Tuesday by the Council
of Fashion Designers of America intended to address how to get
recession-addled shoppers to buy obscenely expensive things they
don't need, Wintour, who chaperoned White House Social Secretary
Desiree Rogers at February's Fashion Week, was thinking outside
the box:  "Could someone lead a committee that would make ground
rules for retailers of when the discounting starts, and then all
the retailers can agree to it?" Ms. Wintour suggested.  It's so
simple, and so illegal. When CFDA president Diane von
Furstenberg pointed out that such an arrangement would violate
anti-trust laws, Wintour was nonplussed: "Is that something we
can change? We have friends in the White House now!"  Anna
Wintour Wildly Overest