When you talk about someone whose influence in fashion is very much respected and admired, there’s no other person that comes to mind but Anna Wintour.
Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of American Vogue and the artistic director of Condé Nast, is widely regarded as the most influential figure in fashion.
American Vogue reaches 11.4 million readers in print and an average of 1.2 monthly visitors online; what’s more, Wintour is arguably the most commercially minded editor ever.
She has parlayed US Vogue’s position as a documenter and badge of acceptance to place the magazine within the industry’s beating commercial heart.
During her 25-year tenure at American Vogue, Wintour has spearheaded the editorial practice of featuring celebrities on the cover, taken the title’s fashion pages out of the studio and onto the street and used Condé Nast’s flagship title’s influence to champion new American designers through the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. Wintour launched Fashion’s Night Out.
In R.J. Cutler’s documentary The September Issue, Wintour said “Growing up in London in the Sixties you would have to be walking round with Irving Penn’s sack on your head to not realise that something extraordinary was happening in fashion. The look of the girl then and everything that was going on then, the pill and the emancipation of women and the end of the class system, just sort of seeing that revolution go on made me love [fashion] from an early age.”
Wintour, already equipped with what would become her trademark bob, took a job at Biba, the London store before completing a training programme at Harrods.
Soon after, following a stint gaining experience at magazine Oz, Wintour took a role at Harper’s & Queen.
Wintour’s skill and enduring professionalism is rarely focused upon by the media, following the release of the film The Devil Wears Prada, based on a book of the same name.
In typical inscrutable style, Wintour wore Prada to the premier. However, the results her style of editorship garners are irrefutable.
Wintour is a trustee of the New York Metropolitan Museum; her involvement turned the museum’s annual gala into one of the most high profile events of the year.
In addition, she is a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party and has raised funds for both Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s presidential bids.
Wintour has two children and is in a relationship with Shelby Bryan, a Texan businessman.
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