If one comes across sometimes as being cold or brusque, it's simply because I'm striving for the best. [47] Once in charge, she replaced many of the staff and exerted far more control over the magazine than any previous editor had, earning the nickname "Nuclear Wintour" in the process. She eventually accepted after a bidding war that doubled her salary, becoming the magazine's first creative director, a position with vaguely defined responsibilities. She always arrives at fashion shows well before their scheduled start. "[I]t was a leap of faith and it was certainly a big change for Vogue. [98] She declined to comment. [36], Wintour, unlike Vreeland, "...shifted Vogue's focus from the cult of beauty to the cult of the creation of beauty. "She smiles now and has been seen to laugh," the Observer quoted one as saying. "The Devil Wears Prada transformed Wintour's image from that of a mere public figure into that of a cultural icon. "She's interested in business and money. "[164], Another common criticism of Wintour's editorship focuses on Vogue's increasing use of celebrities on the cover, and her insistence on making them meet her standards. M
[66][67], In 2008, rumours arose that she would retire,[68] and be replaced by French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld. A year later, Sykes, another putative successor, left to concentrate on her best-selling novels set in the city's upper classes and a screenplay. K
[36] In August 2014, Gigi Hadid paid tribute to Wintour's first cover. Life indoors drove many folks to experiment with tactile hobbies like bread baking and quilting. It painted a similar portrait of the real woman. She broke up with Bradshaw and began a relationship with French record producer Michel Esteban, for two years dividing her time with him between Paris and New York. [27] After chronic disagreements with her rival, Min Hogg,[28] she quit and moved to New York with her boyfriend, freelance journalist Jon Bradshaw. Charlie is a graduate of the University of Oxford and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Her connections helped her secure locations for innovative shoots by Helmut Newton, Jim Lee[25] and other trend-setting photographers. [57], At the end of the decade, another of Wintour's inner circle left to run Harper's Bazaar. Wintour was born in Hampstead, London in 1949, to Charles Wintour (1917–1999), editor of the Evening Standard, and Eleanor "Nonie" Trego Baker (1917–1995), an American, the daughter of a Harvard Law School professor. Her great-great-great-great grandfather was Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, who served as the Anglican Bishop of Derry. Dramatic Special category for Twin Peaks (2017), but lost to Ryan Murphy for American Crime Story: The Man Who Would Be Vogue ... Salary ⦠K
As an editor, she has turned class into mass, taste into waste. In it he wrote, "She just never talked to peons like us" to justify his intended actions. "[54] In 2015 she said if she had to pick a favorite of her covers, it would be that one. She learned through her work on a cover involving Rachel Ward how effectively celebrity covers sold copies. [92], She had two children by David Shaffer following their 1984 marriage: Charles (Charlie) born 1985, and Katherine (known as Bee) born 1987. [44] She began dating child psychiatrist David Shaffer, an older acquaintance from London. [104], Her control over the text is less certain. [38], Emma Brockes sees this in Wintour herself: "[Her] unwavering ability to look as if she lives within the pages of her magazine has a sort of honesty to it, proof that, whatever one thinks about it, the lifestyle peddled by Vogue is at least physically possible. S
[71], She has made similar statements in defence of her reported refusal to hire fat people. "[55], "Wintour's approach hit a nerve—this was the way real women put clothes together (with the likely exception of wearing multi-thousand-dollar T-shirts)," one reviewer says. [40] A former colleague arranged for an interview with Vogue editor Grace Mirabella that ended when Wintour told Mirabella she wanted her job. [127] Priestly is 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.[128]. [149], "I think she has been very rude to a lot of people in the past, on her way up – very terse," a friend told The Observer. Likewise, Hillary Clinton was told not to wear a blue suit. [113] As she rebounded from the end of her marriage and the turnover in the magazine's editorial staff, a fellow editor and friend noted that "she's not hiding behind her glasses anymore. [142] When it was reported that the novelist's editor told her to start her third novel over, Wintour's spokesman suggested she "should get a job as someone else's assistant. "A decade ago this summer, Wintour became a living, breathing avatar for a certain kind of boss—the terrible kind, with 'great' a halfhearted asterisk," wrote Alison Herman. [140]), Wintour reportedly said the film would probably go straight to DVD. In 2009, Wintour was the focus of another film, R. J. Cutler's documentary, The September Issue. [71] "I don't find her to be accessible to people she doesn't need to be accessible to," agrees Vogue publisher Tom Florio. Yep, still waiting on that queue. Its circulation had long lagged behind rival Architectural Digest,[50] and Condé Nast hoped she could improve it. Weisberger, 322. Instead, it reminds women to take satisfaction, parading all manner of fineries (clothes, furniture, travel destinations) that a successful woman might buy, or at least admire. Her older brother, Gerald, died in a traffic accident as a child. [158] "Nobody was wearing fur until she put it on the cover in the early 1990s," says Vogue co-worker Tom Florio. Millions of real salary data collected from government and companies - annual starting salaries, average salaries, payscale by company, job title, and city. "[109] "I know when to stop pushing her," says Coddington. "We once had a piece about breast cancer which started with an airline stewardess, but she wouldn't have a stewardess in the magazine so we had to go and look for a high-flying businesswoman who'd had cancer. [22], In 1970, when Harper's Bazaar UK merged with Queen to become Harper's & Queen, Wintour was hired as one of its first editorial assistants, beginning her career in fashion journalism. [38], The following year, she became fashion editor of New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art; 12 January 1999; Oppenheimer, pp. The president is the chief diplomat of the United States. [71] She began the CFDA/Vogue Fund in order to encourage, support and mentor unknown fashion designers. [108] She has been credited with killing grunge fashion in the early 1990s, when it wasn't selling well, by telling designers if they continued to avoid glamour their looks would not be photographed for Vogue. Z, 8.5 million company & government reported. [19], "I think my father really decided for me that I should work in fashion," she recalled in The September Issue. "[154], Peter Braunstein, the former Women's Wear Daily media reporter convicted of sexually assaulting a coworker, allegedly planned to kill Wintour because of perceived slights. Teen Vogue has published more ad pages and earned more advertiser revenue than either Elle Girl and Cosmo Girl, and the 164 ad pages in the début issue of Men's Vogue were the most for a first issue in Condé Nast history. "[41], Wintour has been a supporter of the Democratic Party since Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate run and John Kerry's 2004 presidential run and serving Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 presidential runs as a "bundler" of contributions. [72][73] Wintour appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to promote it,[74] defending the relevance of fashion in a tough economy. [79] Wintour starred in The Fashion Fund, which aired on Ovation TV that year as well;[80] she was named the 39th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. She was involved briefly with Piers Paul Read, then 24. [97], Wintour and Shaffer divorced in 1999. This is a pleasure enabled by Wintour's ruthless aesthetic, her refusal to participate in the democratizing tendency of most of her competitors. She wants to know what and why and where and how. Wintour was born in Hampstead, London in 1949, to Charles Wintour (1917â1999), editor of the Evening Standard, and Eleanor "Nonie" Trego Baker (1917â1995), an American, the daughter of a Harvard Law School professor. O
In 2004, a court ruled that she and Shaffer were to pay $104,403, and Wintour herself an additional $32,639, to settle a lawsuit brought against them by the New York State Workers' Compensation Board. [88] A protégée at Vogue, Plum Sykes,[58] became a successful novelist, drawing her settings from New York's fashionable élite. (She calls that an exaggeration. "[41], Her remarks about obesity have caused controversy on more than one occasion. [88] The Guardian has called her the "unofficial mayoress" of New York City. "We spend our working lives telling people which it-bag to carry but Anna is so above the rest of us she does not even have a handbag. At her parents' behest, she also took fashion classes at a nearby school. [109] It made over $300 million in worldwide box office receipts. O
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[101], Wintour is also involved with charities. "She's obsessed only about reflecting the aspirations of a certain class of reader," she says. Without even lifting a finger, the average non-working family could expect to earn an average salary of between $30,000 and $40,000, according to Time. [84], In May 2020, former editor-at-large, André Leon Talley, released his second memoir, The Chiffon Trenches, which exposed Talley and Wintour's personal fall out in 2018 after he was discontinued as Vogue's Met Gala red carpet reporter. "[142], When The September Issue was released three years later, critics compared it with the earlier, fictional film. L
[106] Earlier in her career, she often left writing of the text that accompanied her layouts to others; former coworkers claim she has minimal skills in that area. She is never going to be friends with her assistant. "She doesn't know when to stop pushing me. "She lets you know it's not a problem if you can't do something she wants." David Berger begründet in 67 Sekunden, warum er trotz seiner CDU-Mitgliedschaft dieses Mal mit Erst- und Zweitstimme die AfD wählen wird. You have to see photographs and pieces that you couldn't possibly see anywhere else."[55]. Barbara Joan Estelle Amiel, Baroness Black of Crossharbour, DSS (born 4 December 1940), is a British-Canadian conservative journalist, [43] She continued to wear them during both pregnancies,[101] opening the skirts slightly in back and keeping her jacket on to cover up. Defenders also point out she continued supporting Gucci despite her strong belief Kering should not have let Tom Ford go. Through her paternal grandmother, Wintour is a great-great-great granddaughter of the late-18th-century novelist Lady Elizabeth Foster (later the Duchess of Devonshire) and her first husband, the Irish politician John Thomas Foster. [27] There, the fashion spreads and photo shoots she had been putting together for years finally began attracting attention. J
[36][38] After making sweeping changes in staff, she changed the style of the cover pictures. [83] According to a January 2017 report in The Nation, an American news magazine, it was rumored that Wintour would have become the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom had Hillary Clinton been elected President of the United States the previous November. All complied. T
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At staff meetings, she earned Wintour's respect as the only person who publicly challenged her. [18] In her later teens, she and gossip columnist Nigel Dempster became a fixture on the London club circuit. [76], In 2013, Condé Nast announced she would be taking on the position of artistic director for the company's magazines while remaining at Vogue. [34], In late 1978, Guccione shut down the unprofitable magazine. B
"It means more people are going to get better fashion," she told Dana Thomas. "I do not think fiction could surpass the reality," a British fashion magazine editor says of The Devil Wears Prada. When the president receives foreign diplomats, he endorses them in the public's eye. You have to walk about a mile into the office before you get to her desk and I'm sure it's intentional," Coddington says. G
In addition, she will be working as global editorial director of Vogue. More recently, she persuaded Brooks Brothers to hire the relatively unknown Thom Browne. [133] "I think she enjoys not being completely approachable. She has rarely discussed working there, due to that connection. She returned to London and was the editor of British Vogue between 1985 and 1987. A former colleague he interviewed recalls trying on her Wayfarers in her absence and getting dizzy. Z, Salary by Job:
[118], Lauren Weisberger, a former Wintour assistant[119] who left Vogue for Departures along with Richard Story, wrote The Devil Wears Prada after a writing workshop he suggested she take. Anna Wintour is still the boss..."[82], In a May 2017 ceremony at Buckingham Palace, Wintour was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to fashion and journalism. [174] When Wintour took over at Vogue, gossip columnist Liz Smith reported rumours she had gotten the job through an affair with Si Newhouse. Eventually, she left, complaining to The New York Times that Wintour had not even sent her a baby gift. [94] According to the BBC documentary series Boss Woman, she rarely stays at parties for more than 20 minutes at a time and goes to bed by 10:15 every night. [132], The film version of the Weisberger novel (screenplay penned by Aline Brosh McKenna) has not been the only movie to have a character borrowing some aspects of Wintour. "[58], Her defenders have called criticism sexist. Her father, a sculptor and mechanic, left the family when Rene was just two, and thus her mother raised Rene and her sister, Toni, as a single mom. [146], 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. [123] Wintour herself makes a cameo appearance near the end of the book,[124] where it is said she and Miranda dislike each other. [17] Her father regularly consulted her when he was considering ideas for increasing readership in the youth market. [99] She and Vogue publisher Ron Galotti once retaliated for a protest outside the Condé Nast offices during the company's annual Christmas party by sending down a plate of roast beef. She dislikes it enough to have asked The New York Times not to use it. Now she's having fun again. This Secret Garden", "Vogue documentary tries to get a read on the chilly Wintour", "Styling Politicians in the Age of Image Wars", "Anna Wintour on COVID-19, the Met Gala, and Why She Will Be Voting for Joe Biden", Anna Wintour Steps Toward Fashion's New Democracy, "Good Witch Glenda Comes to Bazaar as Classy, Chilly Kate Gets Gate", "On TV: 'Ugly Betty' tackles the cruel fashion world with grace", "In 'The Devil Wears Prada,' Meryl Streep Plays the Terror of the Fashion World", "The Cameras Zoom In on Fashion's Empress", Wintour In $140,000 Worker's Comp Default, "Fashion Diary: Why She's the No. [7][8], Wintour is a member of a landed gentry family. "'Maybe I should try to work for one of her enemies? "[169] In 2009, residents of Minneapolis took umbrage after she told 60 Minutes she could "only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little houses." The grievances reflected in the novel and film "[seem] like an increasingly petty complaint when held up against a readership that remains well into the seven figures and the undisputed edge in ad sales that comes with it. "[177], Current editor of American Vogue magazine, Conde Nast artistic director, Oppenheimer, 99. F
"She's not too pushy", agrees François-Henri Pinault, chief executive officer of Kering, Gucci's parent company. Ten months later, she became editor of US Vogue. In the fall, Vogue Living was suspended indefinitely, and Men's Vogue cut back to two issues a year as an outsert or supplement to the women's magazine. "She doesn't do small talk. [36], Complaints about her role as fashion eminence grise are dismissed by those familiar with how she actually exercises it. Other editors said they had to rush through the earlier shows, and lesser-known designers who had to show later were denied an important audience. The gig economy, supercharged by a pandemic, is breathing new life into some bygone hobbies, ones associated more with retirees than entrepreneurs. It focused on the sometimes-difficult relationship between Wintour and creative director Grace Coddington. Afterwards, they must submit all their work to the magazine, not just their personal choices. "...[H]er animosity intensif[ied] after her father married Slaughter. "[167], Giorgio Armani, who at the time was co-chairing a Met exhibition on superheroes' costumes with Wintour, drew some attention for his personal remarks. She became interested in fashion as a teenager. J
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It means you get a better seat in a restaurant or tickets to a screening or whatever it may be. [4] Her parents were married in 1940 and divorced in 1979. In 2008 and 2012, she co-hosted fundraisers with Sarah Jessica Parker, the latest being a 50-person, $40,000-per-person dinner at Parker's West Village town house with Meryl Streep, Michael Kors, and Trey Laird, an advertising executive, among the attendees. Send your resume over to Anna Wintour—they've never liked each other very much. N
[103] She exerts a great deal of control over the magazine's visual content. Her parents were married in 1940 and divorced in 1979. It was just very natural. "[151], She has often been described as a perfectionist who routinely makes impossible, arbitrary demands of subordinates: "kitchen scissors at work," in the words of one commentator. [41], Another Vogue writer has complained Wintour excluded ordinary working women, many of whom are regular subscribers, from the pages. [5] Wintour was named after her maternal grandmother, Anna Baker (née Gilkyson), a merchant's daughter from Pennsylvania. Wintour is seemingly the only person on earth who knows how to run a steady print operation in 2016 ... At 10 years old, Miranda Priestley is iconic but ever-so-slightly out of date.