Asma al-Assad’s Vogue profiler Joan Juliet Buck explains her ‘Rose in the Desert’ horror
JOAN Juliet Buck has been on the Piers Morgan CNN show. Buck is the author of the god-awful “Rose in the Desert” profile on Syria’s Asma al-Assad that appeared in Vogue not long before the Acton-born lovely’s husband started killing his countrymen. It included the line:
She is ‘glamorous, young, and very chic… a thin, long-limbed beauty with a trained analytic mind who dresses with cunning understatement.’…
No watch, no jewelry apart from Chanel agates around her neck, not even a wedding ring, but fingernails lacquered a dark blue-green. She’s breezy, conspiratorial, and fun…
Here’s Buck. It’s cringeworthy. She seem to be saying she was obeying orders. Maybe she can lecture at the Vogue college:
Posted: 27th, February 2012 | In: Reviews Comments (2) | TrackBack | Permalink
