Her high-end wardrobe decisions have already prompted a storm in austerity Britain – and now Theresa Might is to grace the pages of the world's most influential style bible.
The Prime Minister has secretly posed for celebrated portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz in a style shoot for American Vogue.
Mrs Might's unfold within the forthcoming April version is claimed to be a part of a attraction offensive as she prepares to fulfill Donald Trump.
After these leather-based trousers...Theresa Might is to grace the pages of the world's most influential style bible
But it surely has raised eyebrows as a result of it comes simply weeks after Anna Wintour, the shiny's long-serving editor, obtained a damehood within the New 12 months's Honours Record.
And it follows the 'Trousergate' storm, which erupted after Mrs Might wore a £995 pair of leather-based trousers by Amanda Wakeley for characteristic, just for Tory Nicky Morgan to criticise her extravagance.
It earned the anti-Brexit MP Ms Morgan a ban from No 10.
The fruits of the Prime Minister's modelling session for Leibovitz, who has taken among the most memorable photos of the previous 40 years, might be unveiled within the difficulty which matches on sale in March – the month Mrs Might is anticipated to journey to Washington for her first assembly with the brand new US President.
It's also the month she has vowed to set off the Article 50 course of to withdraw Britain from the EU.
A senior supply mentioned: 'The Vogue shoot will type a central a part of Operation Trump. Theresa is aware of she wants to lift her profile within the US and Anna Wintour was solely too eager to assist.'
Mrs Might and her Downing Road aides had been wrong-footed by Mr Trump's shock election victory, with former Ukip chief Nigel Farage successful the race to grow to be the primary British politician to fulfill the President-elect.
The shoot has raised eyebrows as a result of it comes simply weeks after Anna Wintour, the shiny's long-serving editor, obtained a damehood within the New 12 months's Honours Record
The PM is now set to fulfill Mr Trump throughout the subsequent two months, after two of her key aides travelled to Washington final month to pave the best way.
The Prime Minister has lengthy been a fan of Vogue, and mentioned a lifetime subscription to the journal could be her luxurious merchandise when she appeared on Radio four's Desert Island Discs.
However her selection of the US title over the UK version – for which former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher posed in a 1985 photoshoot with David Bailey – is hanging.
The deputy editor of the British version is Emily Sheffield, the youthful sister of Samantha Cameron.
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And when Mrs Might took energy after the Brexit vote, Ms Sheffield spoke angrily about how she 'deplored' the 'informal denigration' of the achievements of David Cameron's Authorities by the brand new regime, who, she mentioned, steered that 'the reign of the Cameroons was about posh boys with self-importance tasks'.
A Downing Road spokesman mentioned the choice to pose for Ms Leibovitz was taken earlier than Mr Trump's victory, as a result of Mrs Might was a lifelong fan of the journal.
He added that Ms Wintour's honour had been proposed by the International Workplace. Ms Leibovitz's work stretches again to her days as a photographer for Rolling Stone journal within the early 1970s, when she captured the final official picture of John Lennon and Yoko Ono simply 5 hours earlier than he was killed.
The 67-year-old photographer, who instructions charges of as much as £150,00zero a day, has additionally taken official photos of the Queen, together with one for her 90th birthday final 12 months.
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