Recovering gossip columnist George Rush imagines a future where Anna Wintour is denied the glittering post of US Ambassador to France and instead ends up in the Asian desert as our envoy to the fictitious Falafelstan.
In a satire in The Huffington Post, Rush — channeling the plummy British voice of the Vogue editor-in-chief — tells of a disastrous meeting with badly dressed local leaders:
“The minister from Schwarmastan said, ‘Why are you wearing sunglasses in doors? There is no sun in here!’ I said, ‘I can take them off now. Clearly, I’m looking at someone who’s not too bright.’
The minister from Tabouli laughed, but other ministers started throwing shoes at me. Hideous brown shoes I wouldn’t give to [a] homeless man!”