Anna Wintour is bringing presidential politics to Paris Fashion Week when she hosts a fundraiser for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign next month in the city of lights.
The Conde Nast chief will hold the event at an undisclosed location on March 4, according to a report from Business of Fashion where she will be joined at the event by Rufus Gifford, finance chair for the Biden-Harris 2024 presidential campaign.
Tickets reportedly start at $500 and go up to $10,000 and would benefit the Biden Victory Fund.
Wintour has long used her numerous connections in the fashion and entertainment worlds to help raise money for Democratic political candidates.
Anna Wintour will reportedly host a fundraiser on March 4 in Paris for Biden’s 2024 campaign
Over the past few weeks, President Biden has been crisscrossing the country raising money for his reelection bid as his administration remains in embattled in a series of crises in Washington.
Last week, the president traveled to New York City for a trio of fundraisers attended by wealthy New Yorkers including actor Robert De Niro.
The fundraising blitz came just days before special counsel Robert Hur released his report on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents which raised serious questions about the president’s ‘poor memory.’
The weekend before, Biden rubbed shoulders with major donors during a fundraising swing through California and Nevada which included an event at the $32 million Los Angeles home of filmmaker George Lucas.
The Biden campaign revealed last month that it has raised $235 million since launching last April and finished 2023 with $117 million in cash on hand – which the campaing said was the highest total amassed by any Democratic candidate at this point in the cycle.
His war chest was boosted by a series of star-studded fundraising events, including one featuring singer-songwriter James Taylor and three days in California for gatherings with Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Shonda Rhimes, Rob Reiner, and David Geffen.
President Biden arriving in New York City where he attended a series of fundraising events for his reelection campaign on February 7
Jill Biden arriving at the home of Anna Wintour in October for an intimate fundraiser that included some of the biggest names in fashion
Wintour’s fundraiser in Paris next month is not the first time the former Vogue editor-in-chief has raised funds for the president’s reelection bid. Last year, she hosted fundraising events with Vice President Kamala Harris and with First Lady Jill Biden.
In October, DailyMail.com captured exclusive photos of First Lady Jill Biden arriving at the former Vogue editor’s $12 million Manhattan townhouse that include an A-list guestlist including fashion designers Michael Kors and Tory Burch.
In 2022, Wintour joined the president, first lady and a series of other celebrities and officials at the White House for a State Dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron and Brigette Macron.
Wintour also attended and hosted several fundraisers for the president’s 2020 campaign.
She announced her endorsement of Biden in 2020 after Super Tuesday with an op-ed in Vogue where she called the then-candidate ‘a man of character and has so many qualities that we are in desperately short supply of in Washington right now: decency, honor, compassion, trustworthiness, and best of all experience.’
Wintour was also a fierce supporter of Hilary Clinton in 2016 and a major fundraiser for former President Obama’s campaign.
Anna Wintour arriving at the White House for a State Dinner hosted by President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden for the French President Macron and Brigitte Macron in 2022
Then-First Lady Michelle Obama hugs Wintour at the grand opening of the Anna Wintour Costume Center Grand Opening at Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2014
Anna Wintour arriving at the White House for a State Dinner hosted by President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in 2012
After former President Trump took office in 2017, Wintour appeared on the Late Late Show where she was asked by host James Corden who she would never invite back to the Met Gala, the benefit for the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute, known as the party of the year, Wintour did not skip a beat responding, ‘Donald Trump.’
First Lady Jill Biden and Vice President Harris have both appeared on the cover of Vogue as did Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama when they were First Ladies.
Melania Trump was snubbed that honor and did not get to grace the cover of the fashion magazine during her husband’s time in office. She did appear on the cover wearing her wedding dress back in 2005.