With her impeccable square and her sunglasses, Anna Wintour stands straight in her heeled boots. The fashion pope, editor -in -chief of the American publishing of Vogue magazine for over thirty years, rarely leaves its oval solar. Including when, in 2018, she takes place next to Elizabeth II during London Fashion Week. Some were screaming in irreverence, but a specialist in the royal label assured that the wearing of this accessory was not a crime of lese majesty.
At 72 years old, this owner with grip nicknamed “Nuclear Wintour” (word game based on “nuclear winter”, “nuclear winter” in English) follows a rectilinear trajectory which led it to be sacred, in 2017, “The most powerful woman in the world in the media and entertainment field” by Forbes magazine. Born in London, in 1949, but resolutely New York, this journalist’s daughter was once sent back from her college for having disputed the regulatory uniform by shortening her skirt.
She already wore the same hairstyle, but not yet these sunglasses which she explains the omnipresence with a transparency barely tinged with cynicism. “They are really useful to me. I can sit on a show and, if I get bored, no one will notice it. They really became armor,” she explained, in 2009, to the information magazine American television “60 minutes”. “You avoid people to know what you think,” she said, ten years later, on CNN. For glamor, you will have to go back.
austere maintenance
His thing: pretend to move masked and let others build your legend. The austere maintenance of Dame Wintour frame too well with the profile of Miranda Priestly, the heroine of the devil dresses in Prada, written by Lauren Weisberger, one of her former assistants. But even if she often finishes her sentences with a final “it’s all”, such as the character of the novel, Anna Wintour assures that she does not recognize herself in this fiction which did so much for her notoriety. Simple coquetry. To a journalist who asked her who was the most false rumor concerning her, she replied: “They are all true.”