As Vogue chief Anna Wintour sat down to pen her editor's letter for the February issue, which features Kate Bosworth on the cover and those Marc Jacobs ads we're so obsessed with on the inside, fury boiled in her narrow blue veins. It was time to close the book on the style rag's annual power issue, and Hillary Clinton was nowhere to be seen in its pages. A miffed Wintour writes: "Imagine my amazement ... when I learned that Hillary Clinton, our only female presidential hopeful, had decided to steer clear of our pages at this point in her campaign for fear of looking too feminine."

Indeed, rumors swirled back in November that Clinton had chosen not to sit for the magazine at this time, though she had posed for Annie Leibovitz back in 1998 at the White House, and in 2003, after she became a New York senator. This time around Clinton supposedly left the fashion pack in the lurch after deciding that an appearance in the magazine might make her seem too "elitist" or "too glamorous" for voters.

Seeming elitist and glamorous is hardly a negative, trills Wintour, who decided to devote her latest issue to the senator, proposing fashion choices suitable for the campaign trail. "We would love to see her wear a demure coat in delicious plum by Carolina Herrera to memorial services on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. Or a niftily tailored white silk pantsuit by Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein when she campaigns in Florida," Wintour enthuses.

For a "romantic Valentine's Day look," (um, ewwww) the editrix also suggests Clinton don one of several shiny floor-length evening gowns by Oscar de la Renta or Ralph Lauren. And should Clinton eschew her advice as well as future offers to sit down for a chat sesh with the magazine's Julia Reed? Wintour's vote, she suggests, hangs in the balance.