Even the Mueller Report Has a Fashion Influencer in It
Russian fashion insider, street style star, and entrepreneur Miroslava Duma appears in the Mueller report, which was released today by the Department of Justice.
In December 2015, Duma "passed along invitations" to Donald and Ivanka Trump for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum for Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko, the report says.
Duma is described as a "contact of Ivanka Trump's from the fashion industry" in the document.
Influencers are everywhere these days from Coachella, to the front row of fashion week, to your local brunch spot; and now, because no place is truly safe, they're also in the Mueller report.
Russian fashion influencer Miroslava "Mira" Duma is mentioned in the nearly 450-page document from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation on Donald Trump's possible collusion with Russia during the 2016 election, which was released today by the Justice Department. Duma-a fashion week regular, street style star, and entrepreneur-is listed in a section of the report regarding Trump's travel plans to Russia as a presidential candidate. She's described as a "contact of Ivanka Trump's from the fashion industry" in the text. Bloomberg reporter Kim Bhasin pointed out her surprising cameo on Twitter.
☮️ to the 🌎🌍🌏 #onasecretmission
A post shared by Miroslava Duma (@miraduma) on Mar 15, 2019 at 5:40am PDT
Duma, who boasts 1.6 million Instagram followers, co-founded the digital media brand Buro 24/7 in 2011 (but sold her stake in the company last March). The oft-photographed style insider turned tech CEO in 2017 when she launched Future Tech Lab, a fashion investment company and incubator, but her connections and influence go beyond the fashion industry.
In December 2015, according to the Mueller report, Duma invited Donald and Ivanka Trump to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on behalf of Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko. (It's unclear how exactly she and Prikhodko became connected.) Trump declined the invitation, and Duma suggested to Rhona Graff, executive assistant at the Trump Organization, that he "send a formal note" to Prikhodko to inform him of his absence.
Read the full excerpt mentioning Duma (from Volume 1, pages 78-79 of the report) below:
Second, like Cohen, Trump received and turned down an invitation to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. In late December 2015, Mira Duma-a contact of lvanka Trump's from the fashion industry-first passed along invitations for Ivanka Trump and candidate Trump from Sergei Prikhodko, a Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. On January 14, 2016, Rhona Graff sent an email to Duma stating that Trump was "honored to be asked to participate in the highly prestigious" Forum event, but that he would "have to decline" the invitation given his "very grueling and full travel schedule" as a presidential candidate. Graff asked Duma whether she recommended that Graff "send a formal note to the Deputy Prime Minister" declining his invitation; Duma replied that a formal note would be "great."
Duma has been embroiled in a quite a few controversies in the past year. Last January, she came under fire after posting a handwritten note from Russian designer Ulyana Sergeenko that read, "To my n***as in Paris." The scandal exacerbated days later when the fashion blogger Bryanboy re-surfaced a video of Duma making transphobic and homophobic comments. She has since apologized for her remarks. Back in Duma's native Russia, she was also at the center of a smear campaign targeting fashion influencers and members of the industry who'd become successful abroad, writers Connie Wang and Valerie Stivers reported for Refinery29 last May.
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