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Hillary Clinton gives a speech about inequality in an Armani jacket worth '$12,000'

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee stirs controversy for her choice of jacket

Maya Oppenheim
Tuesday 7 June 2016

Clinton, who is known for her pantsuit collection, has hired a team of image experts AP

Hilary Clinton has come under fire for giving a speech about inequality in a Giorgio Armani jacket reportedly worth $12,495.

It has emerged the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee wore the tweed jacket during her victory speech in April in which she explored topics of income inequality, job creation and retirement schemes.

Clinton, who is known for her pantsuit collection, has hired a team of image experts which includes Michelle Obama’s former assistant Kristina Schake and has opted for higher end European fashion labels in recent months.

“She’s had to have spent in the six figures on this wardrobe overhaul,” Los Angeles-based political image consultant Patsy Cisneros told The New York Post.
But Clinton has stirred criticism for her choice of jacket on social media since reports emerged yesterday.

“Hilary Clinton is a total hypocrite,” Fox new contributor Richard Grenell wrote on Twitter.
Another user said, “Hillary's jacket is worth almost as much as the annual salary of one minimum wage worker”.

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Hillary Clinton wore a $12,495 Armani jacket during a speech about inequalityHillary Clinton faced flak after reportedly wearing an Armani jacket worth more than $12,000 during a speech about inequality

Although not all Twitter users have been negative, one said, “God forbid someone works hard and buys themselves nice things”.

In the past, Clinton’s choice of clothes have been widely mocked, with her colourful pantsuit collection prompting numerous memes.
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Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has also been spotted in designer clothing and has been open about his penchant for Italian-made Brioni suits.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/pe...-a7068581.html

The surprising strategy behind Hillary Clinton’s
designer wardrobe

By Leah Bourne
June 5, 2016 | 7:25pm


The many suits of Hillary Clinton. Photo: Getty Images

Hillary Clinton’s New York primary victory speech in April focused on topics including income inequality, job creation and helping people secure their retirement. It was a clear attempt to position herself as an everywoman.

But an everywoman she is not — she gave the speech in a $12,495 Giorgio Armani tweed jacket.

The polished outfit was a stark contrast to the fashion choices Clinton has made in the past. As first lady, Clinton wore frumpy pastel skirtsuits. As New York senator and secretary of state, she attempted a more serious look, wearing pantsuits in a rainbow of colors — so mocked that they sparked memes.

In comparison to Michelle Obama, who’s become known as a style icon during her time in the White House and appeared on the cover of Vogue twice, Clinton has never been able to nail down a personal aesthetic that works for her.

But now, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, whose dowdy and matronly style has haunted her throughout her entire political career, is making her first real effort to play the fashion card.

She’s upgraded the designers she wears, opting for high-end European labels, and hired a team of image experts that includes former Michelle Obama aide Kristina Schake, who’s been tasked with shaping her style and making her more relatable.

She’s even rumored to have “Veep” makeup artist Barbara Lacy on the payroll.


$12,495 — cost of the Giorgio Armani jacket Clinton wore
to her New York primary victory speech in April.
Photo: Startraks Photo

But this new look comes with a hefty price tag. “She’s had to have spent in the six figures on this wardrobe overhaul,” says LA-based political image consultant Patsy Cisneros.

Clinton, who loves to say that she left the White House in 2001 “dead broke,” is now dressing the part of someone who can command $325,000 for a single speech. Factoring in the designer labels she’s wearing, plus the number of new outfits she’s been photographed in over the past year, she’s likely spent at least $200,000 on new clothes to wear on the campaign trail.

And there’s a good chance that cash is coming out of her own pocket. For example, no designers are actively promoting that she’s wearing their labels — something that probably wouldn’t happen if she were getting her threads for free. Whether she’s given discounts is harder to say, although she has been spotted at stores like Bergdorf Goodman — so she is buying some items off the rack, a stark contrast to Michelle Obama, whose staff calls designers directly.

It’s a marked shift from Clinton’s 2008 run, when she regularly recycled outfits such as blue-and-tangerine pantsuits from DC-based designer Nina McLemore.

But just like Clinton’s fashion choices of the past, the makeover could turn out to be divisive. On one side will be those who say it’s an appropriate expense for Clinton, given that she’s in the unprecedented position of running for president as a woman — and looking the part is crucial to her success. On the other side are those who will see her spending as being out of touch with her message.

It’s a tough spot to be in, but Clinton follows a long line of politicians who’ve spent big bucks on a campaign wardrobe. The Republican National Committee infamously shelled out $150,000 for new clothes for Sarah Palin in the 2008 election.

Michelle Obama is known for wearing designer labels from Jason Wu to Prabal Gurung, and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has a penchant for Brioni suits, which cost upward of $7,000 each.


$4,000 — cost for similar styles of the Susanna Beverly Hills jacket Clinton showed up in for an event in Baldwin, Iowa.
Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Purely from a fashion perspective, experts say Clinton’s new style is more modern and carefully accessorized. “She’s moved away from those monochromatic pantsuits,” says Washington, DC-based political style blogger Christina Logothetis. “And she is just generally looking much more pulled-together . . . It was a really necessary refresh.”

Some recent style hits for Clinton include a custom-made blue silk Ralph Lauren suit worn to last year’s campaign kickoff on Roosevelt Island (similar styles of the jacket sell for $2,200 and up), a blue beaded coat by Andrew Gn donned at a New York City fundraiser on March 2 (similar styles by the designer sell for $3,000 and up at Bergdorf Goodman), and a tailored black suit custom-made by Susanna Beverly Hills sported at a Knoxville, Iowa, campaign rally on Jan. 25 (the label’s suits start at $6,000).


$1,200 — cost for similar styles of the
navy Armani Collezioni jacket worn to
a Las Vegas debate in October.
Photo: EPA/JOSH HANER /
THE NEW YORK TIMES / POOL

Cisneros says the campaign will have succeeded from a style standpoint if voters focus less on what Clinton is wearing than they have in the past. “[The Clinton campaign] is not going for glamour — they are going for something more natural,” she says.

The hope is that Clinton stands out on the trail for her accomplishments rather than for her style, and that her fashion choices become less of a talking point than they have in the past. “Do we see her more than we see the clothes? Do we see her more than we see the makeup?”

Still, the trendier pieces she’s been mixing into her wardrobe — from a black-and-white leather car-coat to a belted white jacket to a pink-and-white gingham coat — haven’t gone unnoticed, and have people drawing comparisons on Twitter to Kerry Washington’s Olivia Pope on “Scandal.”

Her accessory choices have been equally high-fashion, including pricey Mikimoto pearls, Chanel pins, necklaces by Marco Bicego, Joan Hornig and Robert Lee Morris (all of which cost thousands of dollars each), and low-heeled Manolo Blahnik pumps.

While it remains to be seen how Clinton’s fashion upgrade will ultimately resonate when the general election officially kicks off — in part because style has always been a sticky topic for her — experts caution that voters are ultimately looking for authenticity, and a politician’s sartorial choices play a key role in shaping that image.

“You see these candidates try to fit into whatever little country diner they’re eating a burger at — and it’s an attempt to reflect and be representational [of the voters],” says Johanna Blakley, deputy director of the Norman Lear Center and a media professor at the University of Southern California.

But can she achieve that while wearing thousands of dollars’ worth of clothes?

Washington, DC-based image consultant Lauren Rothman says Clinton should refrain from being ostentatious if she wants to avoid a backlash. “The fact that her fashion choices have been functional rather than glam has let [how much she’s spending] go under the radar,” Rothman says. “What got Sarah Palin in the end were her flashy fashion choices.”

http://nypost.com/2016/06/05/hillary...at-least-200k/

Personally, I think the $12,495 Armani Jacket is ugly as sin!

She looks like she is wearing a hospital gown worn backwards.

Pitiful - as is her incompetence as Senator of New York that never brought jobs promised, voted for licenses to illegal trespassers and as Sect'y of State destroyed forever our beloved Europe by killing the Libyan ruler Gaddafi, whilst killing our Americans devoted to serving America & promoted cancer causing FRACKING across Europe and most of all COLLECTING FUNDS FOR HER rip off "foundation"

She should come out of the closet at least....

well you better get a new designer she or he has very taste for 12..495 your nut's
they are ugly

Originally Posted by southBronx

well you better get a new designer she or he has very taste for 12..495 your nut's
they are ugly

Just awful!

Makes you wonder if she looks in the mirror before leaving the house???

Very derogatory book coming out........

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Clinton’s lover - before and AFTER his marriage - tells how 'lumpy' Hillary with her 'fat ankles and hair on her toes' schemed to get her to LIE on 60 Minutes about Bill's other affairs

• 'There appears to be no limit to what Hillary will do to destroy her perceived enemies,' Dolly Kyle writes in her new bombshell book
• Kyle began sleeping with Bill Clinton after high school and their affair didn't end until he moved to the White House
• 'Billy was a sex addict; I was a codependent,' she admits in memoir that rips the lid off the power couple
• Bill was undone by Wilt Chamberlain's claim to have slept with 20,000 women - That's ten times more than I've had!' he told Dolly
• Dolly says Bill told her he and Hillary - who he called 'The Warden' -needed to have a baby 'so we can appear to be a normal couple'
• 'We need to do something serious to take attention off the Warden's lifestyle,' Bill said and Dolly suggested he sleep with Hillary
• When Dolly met Hillary - May 28, 1974 - she wore a 'misshapen, brown, dress-like thing that must have been intended to hide her lumpy body'
• The garment 'stopped too soon to hide her fat ankles and her thick calves covered with black hair'
• 'Thick brown sandals did nothing to conceal her wide feet and the hair on her toes,' Dolly said, adding that she was embarrassed and staring

By Caroline Howe For Dailymail.com

Published: 07:36 EST, 10 June 2016 | Updated: 10:09 EST, 10 June 2016

Dolly Kyle met Bill Clinton on a golf course in Hot Springs, Arkansas in the summer of 1959 when she was 11 years old and he was 12.

A thunderbolt struck, so powerful and intense, it was love at first sight that lasted 32 years - through all his Arkansas gubernatorial years and right up until 'Billy' - as she calls him - was on the threshold of the White House.

Dolly dated Bill all the way through Hot Springs High School together and they were close when he went off to law school at Yale.

2 short video clips at story link below


Dolly Kyle (pictured in 199 met Bill Clinton on a golf course in Hot Springs, Arkansas in the summer of 1959







Dolly (left as a teen) was just 11 years old when she crossed paths with Bill Clinton (right his senior year of high school). The pair dated through high school and began sleeping with him once they graduated



After heading to college at Yale, Bill told Dolly he had moved in with Hillary Rodham, who he later went on to marry. Bill and Hillary are pictured above during Hillary's student days at Wellesley College

In 1974, he told her of this woman he had moved in with at Yale. It was simply a decent place to live, a roof over his and she would never be an issue between them, he intimated.

The now 60-something Dolly didn't realize at the time that Hillary's role was financial provider, a role that started at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

'Hillary's role of providing financial security for Billy was part of her motivation for the series of financial crimes (yes, crimes) that she committed over the decades'.
'Hillary was upholding her part of the deal to get Billy elected president, after which it would be her turn to be the first woman in the Oval Office', lawyer and author Dolly Kyle writes in her bombshell book Hillary, The Other Woman, published by WND Books.

‘Billy and Hillary Clinton continue to be lying, cheating, manipulative, scratching, clawing, ruthlessly aggressive, insatiably ambitious politicians who are giving public service a bad name – and nothing about them has changed in the past forty-plus years, except that they have deluded more and more people’.

'The Clintons and their misled supporters have rewritten history to suit their political agenda, which is to get votes to get power to get money to get more power to get more money'.

'The Clintons' vicious cycle of intertwining greed and power addictions will have no limit, unless someone stands up and announces, "The emperor has no clothes!"

'Here am I', writes Dolly.

'Ideology, integrity, and love of country were never involved in the "Billary" quest for the White House.

'It was always a codependent, co-conspiratorial grab for money and power and more money and more power'.

'Unfortunately for them and for the United States of America, there is never enough to satisfy addicts'.


'Ideology, integrity, and love of country were never involved in the "Billary" quest for the White House.' says Bill's ex lover





Dolly Kyle writes about her relationship with Bill Clinton and meeting his wife in her bombshell book, Hillary, The Other Woman. She says Clinton first confessed his desire to be president to Dolly back in high school



Dolly dated Bill all the way through Hot Springs High School together and they were close when he went off to law school at Yale

Dolly watched Bill Clinton grow up in Arkansas. She witnessed Hillary bringing her carpetbag to Arkansas.

'I know what really happened'. She heard it firsthand.

The 'Man from Hope', only lived in Hope, Arkansas, until the age of seven when he moved to Hot Springs.

The segregated climate in the South festered an attitude towards blacks and allowed Clinton to use the phrase 'G**damn n****r,' which Dolly heard him frequently say.

Clinton first confessed his desire to be president to Dolly back in high school and began chasing it when he was an Arkansas delegate to Boys Nation in the summer of 1963 that took him to the White House and a photo-op with President John F Kennedy in the Rose Garden.

Hillary jumped into that dream by defining herself as financial provider, so Billy told Dolly.

Her support allowed him to pursue 'his addictions to politics, power and sex'.

Bill's mother had supported the family financially while his stepfather drank. Now it was Hillary supporting him and he introduced Dolly to the woman from Yale on the evening of May 28, 1974 at the airport in Little Rock.

It was election night and Senator William Fulbright was running for re-election. He had been Clinton's champion, gave him his first Senate job while Bill attended Georgetown University; introduced him to powerful people in Washington; supported him for the Rhodes Scholarship he won; a teaching job at Arkansas Law School and his endorsement as well as intros to financial backers for Bill's first congressional campaign that he eventually lost.

Bill's plane landed and he was first to de-board followed by 'a dowdy-looking woman who appeared to be middle-aged'.
Bill greeted his lover Dolly formally with an extended hand while she checked out this mystery woman accompanying him.








Bill introduced Dolly to Hillary (pictured in her college years) on the evening of May 28, 1974 at the airport in Little Rock. She said Hillary's support allowed him to pursue 'his addictions to politics, power and sex'.

'I couldn't imagine why Billy would haul such a person in the plane with him in public. She was wearing a misshapen, brown, dress-like thing that must have been intended to hide her lumpy body. The garment was long, but stopped too soon to hide her fat ankles and her thick calves covered with black hair'.

'Thick brown sandals did nothing to conceal her wide feet and the hair on her toes'. Dolly was embarrassed that she was staring.

Hillary's eyes, glared at her from behind coke-bottle-thick lenses' with an air of real hostility.

Her thick eyebrows melded together stretching across her forehead.

'In that moment, I noticed that the woman emitted an overpowering odor of perspiration and greasy hair. I hoped that I wouldn't gag when she got in the car'.

Finally the introduction: 'Dolly, this is Hillary. Hillary, Dolly.'

'I was stunned,' Dolly recalled, thinking it was 'some kind of a sick joke' - a woman in a hideous disguise.

Dolly extended her hand but Hillary only glared and nodded.

The plan had been to go the Fulbright's campaign headquarters, but when the votes came in he was losing.

Hillary signaled to Bill and the plan was changed. He would head back to the airport.

'I don't want to be seen with a loser,' Bill told Dolly.

This was his mentor on the most critical night of his 30-year career. It brought tears to Dolly's eyes that he would not pay his respects to the man responsible for his career.

At that time, Hillary was working in Washington, DC and 'trying to become a political force under her own steam'.

'It was a futile attempt,' Dolly writes.


Bill began chasing his dream to become president when he was an Arkansas delegate to Boys Nation in the summer of 1963. The 1963 trip took him to the White House and a photo-op with President John F Kennedy in the Rose Garden



Hillary (pictured in 1974 working for the Rodino Committee bringing impeachment charges against President Richard Nixon) was working in Washington, DC and 'trying to become a political force under her own steam', but Dolly claims it was a 'futile attempt'

Her job with the Watergate investigation ended.
'I do believe that Hillary showed the same lack of integrity there that would later get her into more serious trouble'.

Dolly suggested her boss had little respect for Hillary as a young lawyer and 'he doubted that she had any potential to bring honor to the profession'.

A lawyer and graduate of Yale, Hillary wanted a career in Washington. She flunked the DC bar exam and moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas, where Bill was teaching law at the University of Arkansas.

But she had her spies there months before to uncover Bill's lovers but being 'furriners' from Chicago, they weren't getting any help on ratting out Bill.

Dolly started sleeping with Bill after high school and admits 'Billy was a sex addict; I was a codependent'.

'Then I read about sex addiction. I realized that Billy and I shared a similar problem,' she writes.

He confessed his sex addiction to Dolly in 1987 and was undone by Wilt Chamberlain's claim to have slept with 20,000 women.

'That's ten times more than I've had!' he told Dolly.

He notoriously never used a condom and Dolly guessed Hillary wasn't concerned because she wasn't sleeping with him because of her 'lifestyle'.

It didn't matter that Bill married Hillary in October 1975, Dolly writes.

Dolly and Bill continued their love affair and were safe in Arkansas because no one liked Hillary, she says.

Chomping at the bit for her own term as governor or president, she still had private investigators tracking Bill and the 'women he was dating or attacking'.

Bill called her 'the Warden', but 'she had to keep his nose clean in the public mind because she was riding his coattails to political power'.



Bill Clinton was elected president of the United States in 1992. He is pictured above with Hillary at the 1993 Inaugural Ball

'Hillary needs the power' and she is ruthless, Dolly writes.
Hillary's well-chronicled foul mouth and anger towards the White House security detail existed in the governor's mansion as well.

She resented that she had to dress like Southern women, Dolly says. She visited dress shops but generally didn't buy anything.

In March 1979, Bill told Dolly he wanted a child but had a low sperm count.

'We need to have a baby so we can appear to be a normal couple. We need to do something serious to take attention off the Warden's lifestyle'.

He did not use the word lesbian. He was asking Dolly to pray that a baby would be forthcoming. Dolly suggested he had to bite the bullet and sleep with Hillary.

Hillary is not a leader. She is a coattail-clutcher who has a litany of jobs with no accomplishments'

Within a year, Chelsea Victoria Clinton was born and Bill fell head over heels with the little baby.

But Hillary felt trapped being at home with a baby and couldn't wait to get back to work.

'How long do I have to stay at home with this kid?' Dolly recalls her asking her friend, Louise.

She stayed home with baby Chelsea for three months before returning to work. .

Fast forward to Bill as governor and Hillary, the first female partner of the Rose Law Firm, their relationship was not at its best, Dolly writes. She says there were hissy fits, and Clinton threw dishes at Bill in the Kitchen and broke a kitchen cabinet door – all signs of her anger.

Bill lost the governorship after one year and Hillary was furious, knowing that she was no longer the state's First Lady and had to move out of the governor's mansion and into a tiny house, Dolly writes.

And she was furious, too, that Bill wanted to stay home with the baby. He confessed to Dolly but it was the baby that kept the couple together.

'Hillary was busy studying the exit polls and wondering if it might be time to find another coattail to clutch on her way to the White House,' Dolly recalls.

Political guru Dick Morris, who had worked on their 1978 gubernatorial race, then came on scene.


Hillary, who just clinched the nomination for the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, is pictured above campaigning with Bill in April

Bill had passed on being chair of the National Democratic Party and opted for a job with a local law firm.

It was Morris who devised the winning plan to get back into the Governor's mansion. Bill had to apologize for his arrogance among other sins during his first term and Hillary Rodham had to change her name to Hillary Clinton.


The plan worked and they moved back in the manse in 1983.

Still, 'Hillary is not a leader. She is a coattail-clutcher who has a litany of jobs with no accomplishments', Dolly claims.
Dolly writes that Hillary failed as co-president and failed as senator 'unless you are impressed with the bills she introduced to name a couple of post offices'.

She also, Dolly claims, failed as secretary of state and as a defender of women over the past 40 years. Hillary instigated threats on women who had sex with her husband, a serial sex abuser.

Bill's 12-year affair with Gennifer Flowers exploded on the news in early 1992.

The Clintons' reaction was for Dolly, a lover of Bill's for years, deny that he had any liaison with Gennifer but admit that he did have a lengthy close relationship with her that began when they were in high school.

They wanted the big lie to be told on the television show, 60 Minutes, with Hillary, Bill and Dolly sitting in a room facing the camera.

The Clintons believed that the confession would make Gennifer's story disappear and now the media would focus on Dolly, who was loved in Arkansas.

But Hillary didn't care about her husband's affections for Dolly. She did care if Gennifer Flowers' confession derailed Bill's run for President that year.

Dolly, a stickler for the truth, however, refused to go along with the big deceit and she was told, 'Bill and Hillary will have to destroy you'.

Dolly claims that Hillary did try to destroy here.

'There appears to be no limit to what Hillary will do to destroy her perceived enemies.' she writes.

'In her speeches and on her website, without giving any evidence of what she has done, Hillary states that she has been fighting for women for over forty years.

'She is confused again. She has been attacking women for over forty years'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti....html?AID=7236

i think women need to think about how long Hillary Clinton has been at whatever she claims she was fighting for such as civil rights, womens rights and so forth and then look around the country and see what the result of her "fighting" has been. Sure, a few women have through special elevation programs risen to lead some companies, there are a couple of handfuls of women in the US Senate and even a few Governors.

Outside of the special ones, what about the other women? Look at Medicaid rolls comprised mainly of women and children, in 2008 there were 49 million people on Medicaid, today there are almost 75 million. Look at wages for the non-special women, and by that I mean not the ones in the media or in politics or heading up companies in high visibility make it look like women are moving up, I mean everyone else .... working for $9 an hour or less and can't even get 40 hours a week of that without working 2 or 3 jobs.

Women have moved up the ladder of responsibility, being required to work to survive along with raising their children, but wages and incomes have not risen with it. So until women can earn sustainable livelihoods for their toil and sustain themselves and their families on their own and with husbands earning big as well, all the so-called "fighting" Hillary has done has been ALL TALK, NO ACTION.

Plus she's really evil because she knows that her stance in support of illegal immigration is robbing the livelihoods, wages and incomes of American Women forcing them out of the work force or into working poverty. She knows the free trade treason deals that she supports one day and then blows with the wind against on another day suck the good, secure, high paying jobs out of our country leaving both men and women n the lurch and forced onto welfare to survive.

It's time to stop listening to these deadbeats like Hillary who talk a game they never actually play to win. They talk it at election time and go back to their own business as usual as soon as they're elected. I think Hillary is actually kind of stupid. She knows the political language to speak, but has no clue what it means or the hard work to follow through and worse, she really doesn't care. She just pretends to care to try to advance herself into a history book.

That's not what we need. That's what we've had with Obama for 8 years, an incompetent elected to be the first black President in the history books. What Hillary wants is to be the first women President in the history books. Well, that's all nice, but that's not what we need, what we need is the real deal, a real worker, a real American who is in this race for one reason and that's to help US fix our country before it's too late, not to be the first this or that in the history books.

Trump is the only one in this race for US. If America doesn't grab this opportunity like a fly ball in the stands, then we all deserve the alternative. This candidate needs our 100% support every minute of every day. Some want to call that drinking the "Trump Punch", well, that's the attitude that will lose the election and the only hope we have of fixing our country before it's too late.

To win in November, we must be ALL IN FOR TRUMP TO WIN, because the opposition is ALL IN to defeat US so they can pass amnesty, TPP and perpetuate the destruction, demise and dissolution of the United States.

VOTE TRUMP!

RYAN'S GOTTA GO!

SUPPORT PAUL NEHLEN!

SCOTT BROWN FOR VP!

That's funny, Newmexican!!