Wintour Wednesdays, Thursday Edition: "Fashion, That's All She Thought About"

Welcome to Wintour Wednesdays, our peek inside the unauthorized biography Front Row—Anna Wintour: What Lies Beneath the Chic Exterior of Vogue’s Editor in Chief by Jerry Oppenheimer. Is Wintour’s glacial demeanor affected or genuine? How did she develop her affinity for fashion? And how many decades has she had that haircut, anyway? Let’s find out!

Well, if there’s one lesson to be gleaned from Anna Wintour’s climb to the top of the corporate ladder, it’s that it never pays to stay in a job where you’re not appreciated,

Says former Harpers & Queen fashion editor Min Hogg:

“She had a degree of ambition that must eat away at her heart all the time. Fashion was her absolute world, and she did know more about it than me, so she just didn’t know how to deal with having someone like me over her. Fashion, that’s all she thought about, and she didn’t like anyone who didn’t—in other words, me.”

After a dramatic clash during the shows in Paris, Anna left the magazine—and the country. In New York, she took a junior fashion editor position at Bazaar. Enduring numerous disputes with the editorial director and rumors of her affairs with the photographers she hired for Bazaar’s shoots, Anna was let go after about nine months on staff. This is how she explained it:

“It was for the couture,” she said, “and the editor in chief had a breakdown because I had used models with dreadlocks. You know, it wasn’t a blonde American look!”

Well, she’s certainly mastered the blonde American thing now, hasn’t she?

Next week: Anna does time at Penthouse’s sister publication Viva.

Comments

[natalie]

what happened to Wintour Wednesdays? :/