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"Conventional knowledge tells us that the overwhelming majority of the fashion industry leans to the left, politically&amp;amp;#8212;after all, fashion is a coastal, urban industry that, by its very nature, hangs its hat on continual, rapid-paced change. Today&amp;#x27;s WWD reports out how the industry has split its campaign efforts and donation dollars in the current presidential campaign&amp;amp;#8212;check out who&amp;#x27;s donated to Obama and who&amp;#x27;s donated to Romney, after the jump. According to the story, fashion industry execs &amp;quot;have given more to Obama than any of the Republican presidential candidates that vied for their party&amp;#x27;s nomination.&amp;quot; But the split is not as stark as you might think&amp;amp;#8212;in February, for example, &amp;quot;department store, mass retail and apparel brand executives and employees gave a total of $435,160 to the presidential race, 53.9 percent to Obama and 45.9 percent to Republicans.&amp;quot; Fashion industry boldface names that have personally donated to the Obama re-election campaign include Tommy Hilfiger, Tory Burch, and Michael Kors along with execs including Estee Lauder chairman emeritus Leonard Lauder and Levi Strauss chairman emeritus Robert Haas. Fashion designers&amp;amp;#8212;including Marc Jacobs, Tracy Reese, and Derek Lam&amp;amp;#8212;have also gotten behind Obama by creating limited-edition accessories in support of his campaign. But the industry isn&amp;#x27;t 100% pro-Obama&amp;amp;#8212;&amp;quot;The fashion industry is centered in New York and Los Angeles, which tend to be Democratic strongholds,&amp;quot; Phillip Swagel, professor of international economic policy, told WWD, &amp;quot;After that, Romney&amp;#x27;s strength makes sense as well, since he is running as a pro-business candidate.&amp;quot; To that end, Mitt Romney has secured the support of fashion business insiders including PVH&amp;#x27;s chairman and CEO Emanuel Chirico, Paul Marciano of Guess; and Jockey International&amp;#x27;s COO Ed Emma. What are your thoughts about how the fashion industry gets involved in political campaigns? Do the politics of brands affect how you shop? Tell us in the comments. PLUS... &amp;amp;#183; The Obama campaign has its own Project Runway, kind of &amp;amp;#183; What does it take to get women to vote for other women? &amp;amp;#183; Top 10 college women 2012: Ola Ojewumi"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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