Monica Lewinsky has continually chosen to rewrite her narrative and she’s doing it in the perfect way with a new partner. On Monday, Feb. 26, the 50-year-old author debuted the “You’ve Got the Power” campaign with Reformation’s stunning workwear collection. In addition to the gorgeous designs, Lewinsky is encouraging people to use their voice and power to vote this election year.
“Together with Monica Lewinsky and Vote.org, we’re reminding you that you’ve got the power,” Reformation’s website proclaimed. “And that you need to vote this year.” Lewinsky shared why she decided Reformation was the right partner in a year when “the stakes are especially high.” She told Variety, “It’s pretty simple: Voting is using our voice to be heard and it’s the most defining — and powerful–aspect of democracy. I’m excited and grateful to be working with Reformation to remind people to register, use their voice and vote! A Ref woman is an empowered woman – and an empowered woman uses her voice.”
The fashions also fiercely served up modern power, delivering a slouchy blazer that feels like it’s right out of Meghan Markle’s closet to a crisply tailored skirt and vest that’s a modern twist on Wall Street wardrobe. (You can see the photos HERE.) Lewinsky looks incredibly confident in the campaign and that’s exactly what Reformation was hoping would shine through. “Monica’s been empowering women to use their voices and feel powerful for a long time, so it just makes sense that she’d help us do the same,” the brand said in a statement to the outlet. “And while great clothes won’t fix everything, putting them on and going to the polls is a pretty good place to start.”
The former White House intern spent decades reflecting on the Bill Clinton scandal that seemed to affect her more than him. He was able to easily move on with his life while she was bullied by the press and critics over their affair. Let’s just remember that he was the one in the position of power while she was in her early 20s. Lewinsky spoke about the “devastating consequences” of her actions a 2015 TED Talk entitled “The Price of Shame.”
“Not a day goes by that I am not reminded of my mistake, and I regret that mistake deeply,” she said in her TED Talk. “In 1998, after having been swept up in an improbable romance, I was then swept up into the eye of a political, legal and media maelstrom like we had never seen before.” Lewinsky learned to recapture her magic through her courage to tell her side of a then-tabloid tale that shouldn’t have been her burden to begin with.
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