Cookie banner

This site uses cookies. Select "Block all non-essential cookies" to only allow cookies necessary to display content and enable core site features. Select "Accept all cookies" to also personalize your experience on the site with ads and partner content tailored to your interests, and to allow us to measure the effectiveness of our service.

To learn more, review our Cookie Policy, Privacy Notice and Terms of Use.

or
clock menu more-arrow no yes mobile

Filed under:

Designer Pastries in London; Anna Wintour, Master Fundraiser

Racked is no longer publishing. Thank you to everyone who read our work over the years. The archives will remain available here; for new stories, head over to Vox.com, where our staff is covering consumer culture for The Goods by Vox. You can also see what we’re up to by signing up here.

Hello Saturday, welcome to our inaugural edition of weekend content on Racked.


Image via Betty

LONDON— Every season, the Berkeley Hotel in London fancies up its high tea with a selection of cookies and pastries inspired by runway looks. This season's collection includes pastry effigies of creations by Tom Ford, Chloe, Victoria Beckham, Miu Miu, Tory Burch, Jil Sander, Prada, Miu Miu, and Roger Vivier. [Betty via Refinery29]

WASHINGTON— In the past three months, President Obama's network of fundraisers has raised $34.95 million. Among the money-wrangling heavyweights on the White House list? None other than the fashion fabulous Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, who's raised more than $500,000 for Obama and the Democratic Party. [USA Today]

SAN FRANCISCO— Designer Phillip Lim debuts his fall-winter 2011 collection video exclusively at Style.com. Shot by Andrew Paynter, the short film shows models cycling around San Francisco. Girls on bikes: super on-trend, no? [Style.com]

EVERYWHERE— If models-reading-books-backstage photos aren't enough proof for you that models can, you know, read, then check out Modelinia's rundown of what models, including Sessilee Lopez, Chrissy Teigen, Constance Jablonski, and Tiiu Kuik are reading this summer. Granted, some of them are reading picture books and children's literature but still, it's reading. [Modelinia]