Anna Wintour
Gender	female
Born	November 3, 1949 (1949-11-03) (age 57)
Birth place	London, England
Circumstances
Occupation	Magazine editor
Marital status	divorced
Title	Editor-in-chief, U.S. Vogue
Family	Patrick, James, and Norah (siblings); Charles (father)
Spouse	David Shaffer
Children	Charles and Katherine ("Bee")
Ethnicity	English-American
Salary	$7.5 million (reportedly)[1]
Notable credit(s)	Editorial assistant, Harpers & Queen, Harper's Bazaar; fashion editor, Viva, Savvy, New York; creative director, U.S. Vogue; editor-in-chief, British Vogue and House & Garden

Anna Wintour (born November 3, 1949, in London) has been the editor-in-chief of American Vogue since 1988. She became interested in fashion as a teenager and advised her father Charles, editor of the Evening Standard, on how to better make the newspaper appealing to the youth of mid-1960s London. After dropping out of school at 16, she began a career in fashion journalism. Her career took her across the Atlantic, with notable stints at New York and Home & Garden. She returned home for a tumultous year to turn around British Vogue, and later assumed control of the franchise's flagship magazine in New York. She revived a stagnant publication, a success that has earned her wide acclaim in the industry. Image File history File links Anna_Wintour. ... November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 58 days remaining. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... For other meanings, see vogue. ... Patrick Wintour is political editor of The Guardian, known for the quality of his contacts inside the Labour government. ... David Shaffer is a world famous child psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute of the NY Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City. ... This article is about the English as an ethnic group and nation. ... Harpers & Queen is a British society magazine (i. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Harpers & Queen. ... Viva was an adult womans magazine published by Bob Guccione and Kathy Keeton. ... Practical know-how. ... Headquarters New York magazine is a weekly magazine, founded in 1968, concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. ... House & Garden (sometimes House and Garden, but the magazine uses the ampersand) is a magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. ... November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 58 days remaining. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Editor in chief is a publications primary editor. ... For other meanings, see vogue. ... Fashion illustration by George Barbier of a gown by Jeanne Paquin, 1912, from La Gazette du bon ton, the most influential fashion magazine of its era. ... Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo Station The Evening Standard is a British tabloid newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast England. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... Fashion journalism is an umbrella term used to describe all aspects of published fashion media. ... The Atlantic Ocean forms a component of the all-encompassing World Ocean and is directly linked to the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Southern Ocean. ... Headquarters New York magazine is a weekly magazine, founded in 1968, concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. ... Boston (almost invariably called Boston magazine and often incorrectly written as Boston Magazine) is a glossy monthly magazine concerning life in the Greater Boston area and has been in publication for more than 40 years. ... NY redirects here. ...

Like her predecessor Diana Vreeland, she has become a fashion icon. Her bob haircut and sunglasses have become a common sight in the front row of the most exclusive fashion shows. Away from the cameras, she has become as much an institution in the fashion world as her magazine. Universally hailed for her keen eye for fashion trends and support for younger designers, her aloof and demanding persona has earned her the nickname "Nuclear Wintour". A former personal assistant, Lauren Weisberger, wrote the 2003 bestselling roman à clef The Devil Wears Prada, later made into a successful film starring Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, a fashion editor widely believed to be based on Wintour. She has also drawn both praise and criticism for her willingness to use the magazine and its cachet to shape the industry as a whole. Animal rights activists have also singled her out for her continued promotion of fur. Diana Vreeland (July 29, 1906 in Paris, France – August 22, 1989) was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. ... Look up icon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Woman sporting bob with finger waves, late 1920s A bob is a haircut, usually for women but occasionally for men, in which the hair is cut short, but a weighted area is left to fall between the ears and chin. ... Species Sus barbatus Sus bucculentus Sus cebifrons Sus celebensis Sus domesticus Sus heureni Sus philippensis Sus salvanius Sus scrofa Sus timoriensis Sus verrucosus Pigs are ungulates native to Eurasia collectively grouped under the genus Sus within the Suidae family. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Fashion design is the applied art dedicated to the design of clothing and lifestyle accessories created within the cultural and social influences of a specific time. ... Brief introduction on the history of fashion design and designers Fashion design is the art dedicated to the creation of wearing apparel and lifestyle. ... A personal assistant, personal aide, or PA for short, is someone who assists in daily personal tasks. ... Lauren Weisberger (born March 28, 1977 in Scranton, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist and author of the 2003 bestseller The Devil Wears Prada, a speculated roman à clef of her time as a put-upon assistant to Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. ... See also: 2002 in literature, other events of 2003, 2004 in literature, list of years in literature. ... A bestseller is a book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on a list of top-sellers. ... A roman à clef or roman à clé (French for novel with a key) is a novel describing real-life events behind a façade of fiction. ... The Devil Wears Prada is a 2003 best selling novel by Lauren Weisberger about a young woman who, fresh from college, gets a job working as a personal assistant to a powerful fashion magazine editor that turns increasingly hellish as she struggles to keep up with her bosss capricious... The Devil Wears Prada is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 comedy-drama film, a loose screen adaptation of Lauren Weisbergers 2003 novel of the same name. ... Mary Louise Streep, mostly known as Meryl Streep (born June 22, 1949) is a two-time Academy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, two-time SAG-winning, Grammy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. ... Miranda Priestly is a fictional character in Lauren Weisbergers 2003 novel The Devil Wears Prada, portrayed by Meryl Streep in the 2006 film adaptation of the novel. ... A civet, or sea fox, photographed in the Zigong Peoples Zoo, Sichuan, 2001. ... A dogs fur usually consists of longer, stiffer, guard hairs—which can be straight, wiry, or wavy, and of various lengths, hiding a soft, short-haired undercoat. ...

Family

Her father, Charles Vere Wintour, CBE, was an editor of The Evening Standard; her mother was his first wife, Eleanor ("Nonie") Trego Baker, the daughter of a Harvard law professor, whom he married in 1940 and divorced in 1979. She was named after her maternal grandmother, Anna (Gilkyson) Baker, a Philadelphia socialite.^[2] Her stepmother is Audrey Slaughter, a magazine editor who founded such British publications as Honey and Petticoat.^[3] The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GBE) Knight Commander... Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo Station The Evening Standard is a British tabloid newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast England. ... Harvard Law School, often referred to in shorthand as Harvard Law or HLS, is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... For the record label, see Divorce Records. ... For the song by the Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... Nickname: Motto: Philadelphia maneto - Let brotherly love continue Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States Commonwealth Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Government  - Mayor John F. Street (D) Area  - City 369. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Wintour had four siblings, three of whom survive: James Charles, the managing director of Gravesham Borough Council;^[4] Nora Hilary Wintour, the deputy general secretary of Public Services International in Geneva, Switzerland^[5] and Patrick Wintour, who started as labor correspondent at The Guardian in 1983 and rose to become the political editor first for the The Observer and then in 2006 The Guardian.^[6] Her eldest brother, Gerald Jackson Wintour, died as a child in 1951 when he was struck by a car while bicycling to school.^[7] Managing director is the term used for the chief executive of many limited companies in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth and some other English speaking countries. ... Gravesham is a local government district and borough in Kent, England. ... Public Services International (PSI) is a global union federation of public sector trade unions. ... Geneva (pronunciation //; French: Genève //, German:   //, Italian: Ginevra //, Romansh: Genevra) is the second most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich), and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French-speaking part of Switzerland). ... Patrick Wintour is political editor of The Guardian, known for the quality of his contacts inside the Labour government. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... “Velo” redirects here. ...

Early life

The young Wintour was educated at North London Collegiate School, where she frequently rebelled against the dress code by taking up her skirts.^[8] At the age of 14 she began wearing her hair in the bob that has since become her trademark.^[9] As London began to swing, she became a dedicated follower of fashion as a regular viewer of Cathy McGowan on Ready Steady Go!, and her father regularly consulted her when he was considering ideas for increasing readership in the youth market.^[10] North London Collegiate School is a selective independent day school for girls from the ages of 4 to 18. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... A skirt is a traditionally feminine tube- or cone-shaped garment which is worn from the waist and covers the legs. ... Woman sporting bob with finger waves, late 1920s A bob is a haircut, usually for women but occasionally for men, in which the hair is cut short, but a weighted area is left to fall between the ears and chin. ... Swinging London is a catchall term applied to a variety of dynamic cultural trends in the United Kingdom (centred in London) in the second half of the 1960s. ... Dedicated Follower of Fashion is a 1966 single by British band The Kinks. ... Cathy McGowan on Ready Steady Go! (Rediffusion TV, 1965) Cathy McGowan (born 1945) was a British broadcaster and journalist, best remembered as the presenter from 1964-6 of Rediffusion television’s groundbreaking rock music show Ready Steady Go! // Ready Steady Go! (RSG) was first broadcast in August 1963, its launch... RSG! studio floor with Manfred Mann performing. ...

She began an early pattern of dating well-connected older men. At 15, she was involved briefly with Piers Paul Read, then 24.^[11] In her later teens, she began dating gossip columnist Nigel Dempster and became a fixture on the London club circuit with him.^[12] "She would go to the opening of an envelope", joked a friend.^[13] Piers Paul Read (born March 7, 1941 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, UK) is a novelist and non-fiction British writer and author. ... A gossip columnist is someone who writes a gossip column in a newspaper or magazine, especially a gossip magazine, that prints gossip stories, spreading news of a personal, private nature, and/or rumors and lies, usually about show business, the motion picture and television industries, celebrities, movie stars, superstars, people... Nigel Dempster (1 November 1941-) is a British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist known widely for his celebrity gossip columns in newspapers including the Daily Express (1963-1971) and the Daily Mail (from 1971 to 2003). ...

Career

From fashion to journalism

Charles Wintour arranged his daughter's first job, at the influential Biba boutique, when she was 15.^[14] The next year, she dropped out of North London Collegiate. Wintour chose not to go to college but instead entered a training program at Harrods. At her parents' behest, she also took some fashion classes at a nearby school, but soon dropped out, saying "you either know fashion or you don't".^[15] She continued dating well-connected older men, this time Peter Gitterman, the stepson of London Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Georg Solti.^[16] Another boyfriend, Richard Neville, gave her her first look at magazine production when she hung around the offices of his popular and controversial Oz.^[17] Biba was an iconic and popular fashion store in the 1960s and 1970s. ... The Harrods storefront Harrods is a department store on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, England that caters to upmarket customers. ... The London Philharmonic Orchestra (frequently abbreviated to LPO), based in London, is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom. ... Sir Georg Solti, KBE (pronounced ) (21 October 1912 - 5 September 1997) was a world-renowned Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. ... Richard Neville is an Australian author and futurist, originally known for publishing and editing the counterculture magazine Oz in Australia and the UK in the 1960s and early 1970s. ... Oz Number 3 Oz was a satirical humour magazine first published between 1963–69 in Sydney, Australia and, in its second and more famous incarnation, from 1967 to 1973 in London, England. ...

She entered the field of fashion journalism in 1970 when Harper's Bazaar merged with Queen to become Harper's & Queen, and the new magazine needed editorial assistants.^[18] While there, she let it be known to her coworkers she ultimately wanted to edit Vogue.^[19] She discovered model Annabel Hodin, a former North London classmate, and used the connections she had built up to secure locations for some striking, innovative shoots, often shot by Helmut Newton and other trend-setting photographers.^[20] One shoot recreated the works of Renoir and Manet using models in go-go boots.^[21]. She left the magazine in 1975 after chronic disagreements with new editor Min Hogg, whose job Anna herself had vied for^[22], and relocated to New York with yet another older boyfriend, freelance journalist and playboy Jon Bradshaw.^[23] Fashion journalism is an umbrella term used to describe all aspects of published fashion media. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Harpers & Queen. ... Helmut Newton portrait on his gravestone. ... Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. ... Édouard Manet - 19th century French painter Mobile_ad-hoc_network - A self configuring wireless network This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Nancy Sinatra wearing Go-Go boots on the cover of Boots: Nancy Sinatras All-Time Hits Go-Go boots were originally created in the 1960s with the intention that they should be worn while dancing. ...

New York

She became a junior fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar in New York in 1975.^[21] Her innovative shoots caused conflict with editor Tony Mazzola, and she was fired after nine months, although she has often claimed to have worked there for longer.^[24] During that time she was introduced to Bob Marley by one of Bradshaw's friends, and disappeared with him for a week.^[25] It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Harpers & Queen. ... Nickname: Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1625 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area  - City  468. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Robert Nesta Bob Marley OM (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and political activist. ...

After several months, Bradshaw's help got her her first position as a fashion editor, with Viva, a women's adult magazine started by Kathy Keeton, then wife of Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione. While she was there for two years until it folded in 1979, she has rarely admitted to working there due to the Penthouse connection.^[26] It would be the first position for which she would be able to hire a personal assistant, and along with it came her reputation for being a demanding and difficult boss.^[27] Viva was an adult womans magazine published by Bob Guccione and Kathy Keeton. ... Kathy Keeton (b. ... Penthouse, a mens magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and soft-core pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. ... Bob Guccione and friend Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini Guccione (b. ... A personal assistant, personal aide, or PA for short, is someone who assists in daily personal tasks. ...

When Guccione shut down the money-losing Viva in late 1978, Wintour decided instead to take some time off. She had endured a difficult breakup with Bradshaw, briefly dating Eric Idle^[28] afterwards. But then she wound up with French record producer Michel Esteban, dividing her time with him between Paris and New York.^[29] Eric Idle (born March 29, 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author and writer of comedic songs. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ...

Return to publishing

In 1980, she went back to work, succeeding Elsa Klensch as fashion editor for a new women's magazine named Savvy,^[30] It sought to appeal to career-conscious professional women who could and would make purchases with their own earnings^[31], a reader Wintour would later target with Vogue. Elsa Klensch was the producer and host of Style with Elsa Klensch, CNNs fashion and design television program, which ran from 1980 to 2000. ... Practical know-how. ...

The next year, she moved on to become fashion editor of New York.^[21] It would be the turning point of her career. There, the fashion spreads and photo shoots she had been putting together for years finally began attracting the attention she wanted them to in the industry, and made her a favorite of editor Edward Kosner. He sometimes bent very strict rules for her,^[32] and aroused the ire of the rest of the staff. Nevertheless, he began letting her work on other sections of the magazine, and she learned through her work on a cover involving Rachel Ward how effectively celebrity covers sold copies.^[32] Headquarters New York magazine is a weekly magazine, founded in 1968, concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. ... Rachel Ward Rachel Claire Ward (born at Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, September 12, 1957), granddaughter of the 3rd Earl of Dudley, is an English actress (and more recently, a director) who has made most of her career in Australia. ...

A former colleague arranged for an interview with Vogue editor Grace Mirabella. It ended quickly, after Anna made it very clear to Mirabella that she wanted her job.^[33] Grace Mirabella (born 1930) is a former editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine where she worked from 1971 to 1988. ...

Condé Nast

Among those in the magazine business whose eyes her New York spreads eventually caught was Alex Liberman, editorial director for Condé Nast, publisher of Vogue. In 1983, he talked to Wintour about a position at that magazine, and she eventually accepted after a bidding war which doubled her salary.^[34] Condé Nast Publications Inc is a worldwide magazine publishing company based in New York City. ...

She was given the never-before-used title of creative director.^[34] Since her responsibilities were not clearly defined, she often changed aspects of the magazine without letting Mirabella know, which caused friction between Wintour and other staffers.^[35] During this time, she began dating another older man, prominent child psychiatrist David Shaffer, thirteen years her senior, an acquaintance from her younger days in London. He gave her strong emotional support during a difficult and stressful period in her career.^[36] The two married in September 1984.^[37] Psychiatry is a medical specialty dealing with the prevention, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of the mind and mental illness. ... David Shaffer is a world famous child psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute of the NY Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City. ...

Wintour became pregnant by him shortly thereafter, and a year after the marriage was chosen to replace longtime British Vogue editor Beatrix Miller.^[38] She took over in April 1986, shortly after giving birth to her son, Charlie.^[39] Her husband remained in New York, working on a research project about teenage suicide,^[38] and the company paid for her townhouse, nanny and frequent roundtrip flights on the Concorde for the two.^[40] A pregnant woman near the end of her term Pregnancy is the carrying of one or more embryos or fetuses by female mammals, including humans, inside their bodies. ... Teenage suicide is the self-killing of a teenager. ... Leinster House, 18th century Dublin townhouse of the Duke of Leinster. ... A nanny is defined as a childs nurse. The traditional nanny was a servant in a large household and reported directly to the lady of the house. ... British Airways Concorde G-BOAB. Concorde G-BOAD on a barge beneath Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York City in November 2003, bound for the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum. ...

She radically changed British Vogue, steering it from a tradition of eccentricity to a direction more in tune with the American magazine, borrowing her ideal reader from Savvy. " There's a new kind of woman out there", she told her father's old paper, the Evening Standard. "She's interested in business and money. She doesn't have time to shop anymore. She wants to know what and why and where and how."^[30] She replaced many staffers and exerted far more control over the magazine then any previous editor had, earning the nickname "Nuclear Wintour" in the process.^[41] Those editors who were retained began to refer to the period as "The Wintour of Our Discontent". "It was the end of life as we knew it", said Liz Tilberis, who had hoped for the top job herself.^[42] Elizabeth Tilberis, (b 1947 – d 1999) born Elizabeth Jane Kelly, known professionally throughout her career as Liz Tilberis, was a British fashion magazine editor of Manx and English ancestry. ...

Tilberis got the job in mid-1987 when Wintour returned to New York to take over House & Garden. It had long lagged Architectural Digest,^[43] and the company gave her a free hand. Again, she made radical changes to staff and look. "She destroyed House & Garden in about two days," complained a fired editor, referring to the $2 million worth of photo spreads and articles she cancelled in her first week.^[44] She put so much fashion in photo spreads that industry wags began to refer to the magazine as House & Garment, and enough celebrities that it was referred to as Vanity Chair.^[45] House & Garden (sometimes House and Garden, but the magazine uses the ampersand) is a magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. ... Architectural Digest is a glossy American monthly magazine dedicated to interior design, published by Condé Nast Publications. ...

Wintour's changes did, indeed, have a negative effect on the magazine. When "HG" became the name on the cover in March 1988, many longtime subscribers thought they were getting a new magazine and put it aside for the real thing to arrive.^[43] Many eventually canceled, and while some fashion advertisers came over, most of the magazine's traditional advertisers pulled out.^[46]

After ten months, Conde Nast finally made a long-awaited move and put her into the job she had aimed for since 1971: the editorship of Vogue. Under Mirabella, it had become more focused on lifestyles as a whole and less on fashion.^[45] Industry insiders worried that it was losing ground to the upstart American edition of ELLE,^[45] which had been introduced from France in 1985.^[30] Besides sweeping staff changes, Wintour made her mark early on with a shift in the cover pictures. Whereas Mirabella had preferred tight headshots of well-known models, Wintour's covers showed more of the body and were taken outside, in natural light, instead of the studio, echoing what Vreeland had done years earlier.^[30] She used less well-known models, and mixed inexpensive clothes with the high fashion — the first issue she was in charge of, in November of that year, featured a young Israeli model in a $50 pair of faded jeans and a bejeweled T-shirt by Christian Lacroix worth $10,000. Eight months later, another model was shown in wet hair, with just a terrycloth bathrobe and apparently without makeup.^[45] She also made a point of seeing to it that photographers, makeup artists and hairstylists got as much credit for the images as the models.^[30] “Elle” redirects here. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Al Capone. ... Natural Ice Natural Ice, also know as Natty Ice on ad posters, is a macro lager made by Anheuser-Busch introduced in the 1980s. ... For a one-room apartment, see Apartment. ... Blue Jeans Jeans are trousers traditionally made from denim, but may also be made from a variety of fabrics including corduroy. ... T-Shirt A T-shirt (or tee shirt) is a shirt with short or long sleeves, a round neck, put on over the head, without pockets. ... Christian Marie Marc Lacroix (May 16, 1951 in Arles, France) is a French fashion designer. ... Terry cloth. ... A dragon robe from Qing Dynasty of China A robe is a loose-fitting outer garment of various types, including: A gown worn as part of the academic dress of faculty or students, especially for ceremonial occasions, such as a convocations or graduations. ... Cosmetics or makeup are substances to enhance the beauty of the human body, apart from simple cleaning. ... Cosmetics or makeup are substances to enhance the beauty of the human body, apart from simple cleaning. ... A hairdresser is someone whose occupation is to cut or style hair. ...

Under her editorship, the magazine renewed its focus on fashion and returned to the prominence it had held under Diana Vreeland. Vogue held off the challenge from not only ELLE but Harper's Bazaar, which had lured Tilberis to compete with Wintour, and Mirabella, a magazine Rupert Murdoch founded for Wintour's predecessor. Her most serious adversary, in fact, was within the company — Tina Brown, editor of Vanity Fair and later The New Yorker, whom she competed against for writers and photographers. The two are said to strongly dislike each other, despite some similar personal qualities.^[47] Diana Vreeland (July 29, 1906 in Paris, France – August 22, 1989) was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. ... Species Cereus adelmarii Cereus bicolor Cereus comarapanus Cereus fricii Cereus horrispinus Cereus jamacaru Cereus pachyrhizus Cereus spegazzinii Cereus trigonodendron Cereus vargasianus Cereus is a genus of cacti. ... Tina Brown (born Christina Hambley Brown on November 21, 1953, in Maidenhead, England) is a British-born American magazine editor, columnist, and talk-show host. ... American actress Demi Moore, on a typical Vanity Fair cover (August, 1991) Vanity Fair is a glossy American glamour magazine monthly that offers a mixture of articles based on sensational exaggerations, jet-set and entertainment-business personalities, politics, and lies. ... The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. ...

2000s

The September 2004 issue boasted a record 832 pages, the largest issue of a monthly magazine ever published at that time.^[45] She has also overseen the introduction of three spinoff titles: Teen Vogue, Vogue Living and Men's Vogue. Teen Vogue has outpaced its two top competitors,She penned the song I wanna sex you up by Color me bad in the 90's ELLE Girl and Cosmo Girl in ad pages and dollars, and the 164 ad pages in the début issue of Men's Vogue were the most for a first issue in Condé Nast history.^[48] Her accomplishment in expanding the brand earned her the coveted title of "Editor of the Year," by the industry trade magazine AdAge.^[49] September 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: September 2004 in sports Events Deaths in September • 27 Tsai Wan-lin • 24 Françoise Sagan • 20 Brian Clough • 18 Russ Meyer • 15 Johnny Ramone • 12 Fred Ebb • 11 Peter VII of Alexandria • 8... teenVOGUE magazine began as a version of Vogue magazine for a younger audience. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. ... Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine published in several countries under several names. ... Cosmopolitan, or simply Cosmo, is a magazine published monthly from New York City by the Hearst Corporation. ... Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine published in several countries under several names. ... Advertising Age is a magazine, chronicling trends in advertisement. ...

Her salary is reported to be $2 million a year.^[1]. She also receives generous perks including a $50,000 clothes budget, a chauffeur and a suite at the Hôtel Ritz Paris while attending Paris Fashion Week.^[34] Condé Nast president Si Newhouse also had the company make her an interest-free $1.6 million loan to purchase her townhouse in Greenwich Village.^[50] Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. ... The Washington Square Arch Greenwich Village (IPA pronunciation: ), also called simply the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City named after Greenwich, London. ...

She has become well-known even outside the fashion world, and has been alluded to or parodied even before The Devil Wears Prada.

Fashion industry power broker

Anna Wintour, through the years, has become one of the most powerful people in fashion, setting trends and anointing new designers. The Guardian has called her the "unofficial mayoress" of New York City.^[51] She has worked behind the scenes to encourage fashion houses to hire younger, fresher designers such as John Galliano, who owes his position at Christian Dior to her intervention. She persuaded Donald Trump to let Marc Jacobs use a ballroom at the Plaza Hotel for a show when he and his partner were short of cash. More recently, she persuaded Brooks Brothers to hire the relatively unknown Thom Browne.^[52] Her protégée at Vogue, Plum Sykes, became a successful novelist, drawing her settings from New York's fashionable élite. The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... Nickname: Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1625 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area  - City  468. ... John Galliano CBE (born January 28, 1960, in Gibraltar) is a British - Gibraltarian fashion designer. ... Christian Dior (January 21, 1905 – October 23, 1957), was an influential French fashion designer. ... Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American business executive, entrepreneur, television personality and author. ... Marc Jacobs (born April 9, 1963 in New York City) is an American fashion designer. ... A ballroom is a large room inside a building, the designated puprose of which is holding dances (balls). ... The Plaza Hotel as seen from the corner of 5th Avenue and 59th Street in Manhattan For the music festival PlazAid, click here The Plaza Hotel in New York City is a landmark 19-story luxury hotel on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South in Manhattan, currently... Fashion design is the applied art dedicated to the design of clothing and lifestyle accessories created within the cultural and social influences of a specific time. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Victoria Plum Sykes is a British-born fashion-writer, novelist and New York socialite. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ...

Like many successful power brokers, she rarely makes her wishes known directly. Fashion industry publicists say that a simple "Do you want me to go to Anna with this?" from a subordinate is often enough to settle a dispute in Vogue's favor.^[52] A publicist is a person whose job is to generate and manage publicity for a public figure, especially a celebrity, or for a work such as a book or movie. ...

Personal life

Marriage, relationships and children

She has two children by Shaffer, Charles (Charlie) and Katherine (known as Bee), who blogs for the Daily Telegraph^[53]. The couple divorced in 1999; tabloid newspapers and gossip columnists speculated that it was an affair with millionaire investor Shelby Bryan that ended the marriage^[54] but Wintour has refused to comment.^[55] She maintains an ongoing relationship with Bryan that friends say has mellowed her. "She smiles now and has been seen to laugh," the Observer quoted one as saying.^[56] To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ... For the record label, see Divorce Records. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... A gossip columnist is someone who writes a gossip column in a newspaper or magazine, especially a gossip magazine, that prints gossip stories, spreading news of a personal, private nature, and/or rumors and lies, usually about show business, the motion picture and television industries, celebrities, movie stars, superstars, people... For other uses, see Millionaire (disambiguation). ... The word investor may refer to: A person who makes investments Investor AB, a Swedish investment company institutional investor corporate investor This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... John Shelby Bryan (born March 12, 1946) is an American communications executive, also known for his affair with Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue magazine. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Philanthropy

Wintour is also a noted philanthropist. She serves as a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.^[21] Wintour began the CFDA/Vogue Fund in order to encourage, support and mentor unknown fashion designers. She has also raised over $10 million for AIDS charities since 1990, by organizing various high profile benefits.^[21] A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, or reputation to a charitable cause. ... The word trustee is a legal term that refers to a holder of property on behalf of a beneficiary. ... Metropolitan Museum of Art New York Elevation The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as The Met, is one of the worlds largest and most important art museums. ... The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a non-profit trade group for American fashion designers founded in 1962. ... Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ... MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ...

Work habits

She rises daily before 6 a.m., plays tennis and has her hair and makeup done, then gets to Vogue's offices at 8. She always arrives at fashion shows at their scheduled starting time. "I use the waiting time to make phone calls and notes; I get some of my best ideas at the shows," she says.^[53] According to the BBC documentary Boss Woman, she is similarly efficient with her time elsewhere in her day, rarely staying at parties for more than 20 minutes at a time and getting to bed by 10:15 every night.^[57] For other uses, see Tennis (disambiguation). ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion (US$7. ...

Her control over the magazine, particularly her strong suit, photo layouts, has long been industry legend. She has since her first days as editor required that photographers not begin until she has approved Polaroids of the setup and clothing. Afterwards, they must submit all their work to the magazine, not just their personal choices.^[58] But her control over the text is less certain. Her staffers swear she reads everything written for publication^[59], but former editor Richard Storey has claimed she rarely, if ever, read any of Vogue's arts coverage or book reviews.^[60] Polaroid is the name of a type of synthetic plastic sheet which is used to polarise light. ...

Similarly, in younger days she often left the task of writing the text accompanying her layouts to others, since, many of those who did say, she has minimal skills in that area.^[61] Today she writes little for the magazine save the monthly editor's letter.

At Vogue, she reportedly has three full-time assistants but sometimes surprises callers by answering the phone herself.^[52] She often turns her cell phone off in order to eat lunch uninterrupted, and likes to have a good steak for her midday meal.^[62] Others who have known her likewise report that high-protein meals have been a habit of hers for a long time. "It was smoked salmon and scrambled eggs every single day" for lunch, says a coworker at Harpers & Queen. "She would eat nothing else".^[20] Motorola T2288 mobile phone A mobile phone is a portable electronic device which behaves as a normal telephone whilst being able to move over a wide area (compare cordless phone which acts as a telephone only within a limited range). ... A steak (from Old Norse steik, roast) is a slice from a larger piece of meat, typically beef. ... A representation of the 3D structure of myoglobin, showing coloured alpha helices. ... Smoked salmon is salmon, typically a fillet that has been cured using salt and generally sugar and then hot or cold smoked. ... Scrambled eggs Scrambled eggs is a dish made from the lightly beaten combined whites and yolks of two or more (usually chickens) eggs, sometimes with a little milk or water added, and stirred while cooking. ...

Personal fashion preferences

As the editor of the world's most prestigious fashion magazine, her public wardrobe is often closely scrutinized and imitated. While in her earlier days she mixed fashionable t-shirts and vests with designer jeans, once she started at Vogue as creative director she switched to Chanel suits with miniskirts.^[34] She continued to wear them even through both pregnancies,^[56] opening the skirts slightly in back and keeping her jacket on to cover up.^[63] Designer jeans are jeans that were marketed as fashion and status symbols. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... A skirt is a traditionally feminine tube- or cone-shaped garment which is worn from the waist and covers the legs. ...

Her practice of wearing sunglasses indoors has been the subject of many speculative explanations. These have ranged from a simple affectation to facetious suggestions that she is Satan and the glasses conceal glowing red eyeballs. According to biographer Jerry Oppenheimer, however, she really wears them to conceal poor eyesight (her father's vision deteriorated seriously in his later years, and she fears a similar fate). A former colleague he interviewed recalls finding her Wayfarers in her office once while she was out and putting them on, only to get dizzy from the strength of the prescription lenses.^[64] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Satan (disambiguation). ... Jerry Oppenheimer is a best-selling author who has written critically acclaimed, unauthorized biographies of several high-profile public figures, including Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, Anna Wintour, Rock Hudson, Barbara Walters and Ethel Kennedy. ... Visual perception is one of the senses, consisting of the ability to detect light and interpret (see) it as the perception known as sight or naked eye vision. ... The Ray-Ban Wayfarer is an iconic design of sunglasses available with polarized lenses and spring hinges, manufactured by Ray-Ban since 1952. ...

Politics

Anna is a liberal who endorsed Al Gore in his presidential bid.^[65] She has viewed politics primarily through the lens of fashion, famously saying "If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in the New York Times."^[66] This article discusses the history and development of various notions of liberalism in the United States. ... Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. ...

Lauren Weisberger's roman à clef, The Devil Wears Prada, supposedly about Wintour and Vogue.

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The Devil Wears Prada

Further information: The Devil Wears Prada (novel)

Weisberger's novel is told in the voice of Andrea "Andy" Sachs, a young woman fresh from college with literary ambitions. Andy gets a job as junior assistant to legendary editor Miranda Priestly, who among her many similarities to Wintour is British, has two children, and serves on the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Priestly is depicted as a tyrant who makes impossible demands of her subordinates, gives them almost none of the information or time necessary to comply and then berates them for their failures to do so.^[67] Prior to its publication, Wintour told the New York Times, "I always enjoy a great piece of fiction. I haven't decided whether I am going to read it or not."^[68] While it has been suggested that the setting and Priestly were based on Vogue and Wintour, Weisberger denies this, and even gives Wintour herself a cameo appearance near the end of the book. The Devil Wears Prada is a 2003 best selling novel by Lauren Weisberger about a young woman who, fresh from college, gets a job working as a personal assistant to a powerful fashion magazine editor that turns increasingly hellish as she struggles to keep up with her bosss capricious... First-person narrative is a literary technique in which the story is narrated by one character, who explicitly refers to him or herself in the first person, that is, I. the narrator is a fool putting his nose into the storytelling exercise. ... Miranda Priestly is a fictional character in Lauren Weisbergers 2003 novel The Devil Wears Prada, portrayed by Meryl Streep in the 2006 film adaptation of the novel. ... The Devil Wears Prada is a 2003 best selling novel by Lauren Weisberger about a young woman who, fresh from college, gets a job working as a personal assistant to a powerful fashion magazine editor that turns increasingly hellish as she struggles to keep up with her bosss capricious... Metropolitan Museum of Art New York Elevation The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as The Met, is one of the worlds largest and most important art museums. ... This page is about the religious concept of Tyranny. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

The novel's portrayal of Wintour/Priestly is not entirely negative. Andrea notes that she does manage the difficult task of making all the key editorial decisions in a major fashion magazine every month all by herself^[69] and that she has genuine class and style.^[70]

Yet it is almost universally believed that the book's success was due to the real-life angle. Neither Vogue nor any other Condé Nast publications reviewed Weisberger's book. When the film was released, one of the company's magazines, The New Yorker, ran a review that disparaged the novel in comparison.^[71] The New York Times's Janet Maslin avoided mentioning Wintour's name in one of the paper's two negative reviews of the book.^[72] Its favorable notice of the movie mentioned neither Vogue nor Wintour.^[73] The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... Janet Maslin is a book critic for the daily New York Times. ...

Film adaptation

Further information: The Devil Wears Prada (film)

During production of the movie in 2005, Wintour was reportedly pressuring prominent fashion personalities, particularly designers, not to make cameo appearances in the movie lest they be banished from the magazine's pages, at least temporarily.^[74] She denied it through a spokesperson who said she was interested in anything that "supports fashion". But, while many designers are mentioned in the film, only one, Valentino Garavani, actually appeared as himself.^[74] The Devil Wears Prada is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 comedy-drama film, a loose screen adaptation of Lauren Weisbergers 2003 novel of the same name. ... The Devil Wears Prada is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 comedy-drama film, a loose screen adaptation of Lauren Weisbergers 2003 novel of the same name. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2005. ... Martin Scorsese appears briefly in an uncredited role in this scene from his feature film Taxi Driver. ... Valentino is a fashion house created by Valentino Garavani, a famous fashion designer born on May 11, 1932, in the town of Voghera, Italy. ...

The film was released, in mid-2006, to great commercial success.^[75] Wintour attended the première wearing Prada. In the film, actress Meryl Streep plays a Priestly different enough from the book's to receive critical praise as an entirely original (and more sympathetic) character (although Streep's office in the film bears similarities striking enough to Wintour's^[76] that she reportedly had it redecorated).^[77] Premiere, from French language première meaning first, generally means a first performance. Premieres for theatrical, musical, and other productions are often extravagant affairs, attracting large numbers of socialites and much media attention. ... Prada, S.p. ... Mary Louise Streep, mostly known as Meryl Streep (born June 22, 1949) is a two-time Academy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, two-time SAG-winning, Grammy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. ...

Wintour reportedly said the film would probably go straight to DVD.^[62] It made over US$300 million in worldwide box office receipts. Later in 2006, in an interview with Barbara Walters which aired the day of the DVD's release, Wintour said she found the film "really entertaining" and praised it for making fashion "entertaining and glamorous and interesting…. I was one hundred percent behind it".^[78] DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... Barbara Jill Walters[1] (born September 25, 1929- [2]) is an American journalist and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), evening news magazine (20/20), and on The ABC Evening News, as the first female evening news anchor. ...

While Wintour may have borne no malice toward the film and those involved in it, she has reportedly never forgiven Weisberger.^[79] When it was reported that her editor suggested she completely start her third novel over, her spokesman suggested Weisberger "should get a job as someone else's assistant."^[80]

Ultimately, The Devil Wears Prada may have actually done Wintour a favor by increasing her name recognition. "Besides giving Weisberger her fifteen minutes", Oppenheimer writes, "[it] ... place[d] Anna squarely in the mainstream celebrity pantheon. [She] was now known and talked about over Big Macs and fries under the Golden Arches by young fashionistas in Wal-Mart denim in Davenport and Dubuque."^[79] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... French fried potatoes, commonly known as French fries or fries (North America) or chips (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and Commonwealth) are pieces of potato that have been chopped into batons and deep fried. ... Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ... Davenport is a city in the American state of Iowa that borders the Mississippi River. ... Nickname: The Key City, City of Five Flags, Masterpiece on the Mississippi Location in the State of Iowa Coordinates: Country United States State Iowa County Dubuque Incorporated 1833 Government  - Type Council-Manager  - Mayor Roy D. Buol  - City manager Michael C. Van Milligen Area  - City 71. ...

Other criticism

While her success at turning Vogue around and her support of the fashion industry and charity work are universally acknowledged, criticism of her management style as depicted by Weisberger has continued. She has also been accused of imposing an élitist æsthetic on the magazine, promoting celebrities over fashion personalities and making demands that even prominent subjects change their image before being featured in its pages.^[56][45] Elitism is the belief or attitude that the people who are considered to be the elite — a selected group of persons with outstanding personal abilities, wealth, specialised training or experience, or other distinctive attributes — are the people whose views on a matter are to be taken the most seriously, or...

In 2005, two years after The Devil Wears Prada, Oppenheimer's, Front Row: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue's Editor In Chief was published. It drew on many unnamed sources, often with grudges, to paint a similar portrait of the real woman. According to Oppenheimer, Wintour not only declined his requests for an interview but directed others not to cooperate.^[81], consistent with other reports that she goes to great lengths to manage her public image. When she took over as American Vogue editor, gossip columnist Liz Smith reported rumors that she had gotten the job by having an affair with Newhouse. Wintour was reportedly furious and made her anger the subject of one of her first staff meetings.^[30] She remained angry enough that she still complained about it when accepting a media award in 2002.^[82] Gossip column A gossip column is an article in a newspaper or magazine written by a gossip columnist. ... Liz Smith (born February 2, 1923 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a popular gossip columnist. ... An affair is often a euphemism for a situation where two people are involved in an inappropriate romantic relationship. ...

Personality

She is often described as cold and aloof. "At some stage in her career, Anna Wintour stopped being Anna Wintour and became 'Anna Wintour', at which point, like wings of a stately home, she closed off large sections of her personality to the public", wrote The Guardian.^[66] Many former coworkers told Jerry Oppenheimer of how she kept her distance from most of them. But she is also known for volatile outbursts of displeasure, and the "Nuclear Wintour" sobriquet is a result of both. Despite its wide use, she dislikes it enough to have demanded that the New York Times not use it.^[41] The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

"I think she has been very rude to a lot of people in the past, on her way up — very terse," said the same friend the Observer quoted on the positive effect of her relationship with Bryan. "She doesn't do small talk. She is never going to be friends with her assistant".^[56] A former assistant said, "You definitely did not ride the elevator with her."^[83] Even those who like her admit to some trepidation at her presence. "Anna happens to be a friend of mine," says Amiel, "a fact which is of absolutely no help in coping with the cold panic that grips me whenever we meet."^[62] A personal assistant, personal aide, or PA for short, is someone who assists in daily personal tasks. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Elevator surfing. ...

She has often been described as a perfectionist who routinely makes impossible, arbitrary demands of those who work for or under her, and treats them unkindly: "kitchen scissors at work," in the words of one commentator.^[45]She once made a junior staffer look through a photographer's trash to find a picture he had refused to give her.^[30] An intern at the magazine was told she must not make eye contact with Wintour or initiate conversation with her. One day in the hall, the intern saw Wintour trip and stepped over her rather than violate this taboo.^[56] "The notion that Anna would want something done 'now' and not 'shortly' is accurate," Barbara Amiel says of The Devil Wears Prada. "Anna wants what she wants right away."^[65] A longtime assistant says "She throws you in the water and you'll either sink or swim."^[84] Perfectionism, in ps