Ms. Versace Comes to Washington: Washington Post

Quoted via Washington Post:

Designer Donatella Versace does not look like a political activist. She is more commonly seen wearing something tight and sparkly, rather than C-SPAN pinstripes or anarchist bandannas. And a few days before the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, where she will be a guest of Vanity Fair magazine, she is in her New York hotel suite wearing form-fitting black trousers and a sleeveless, one-shoulder black top. Even in the midafternoon, she is a glamourpuss with flaxen hair and mile-long eyelashes. She had no plans to ratchet down the razzle-dazzle on account of Washington's conservative reputation.

But do not assume her dinner-table talk is limited to frocks and stilettos. She can parry with any lobbyist or wonk on subjects from the impact of Barack Obama's handshake with Venezuela's Hugo Chávez to his overtures to Cuba's Raúl Castro. Her dining companions, of course, need a significant amount of willpower to keep their eyes from straying to the magnificent jewels on her finger. more