anna

My favorite quotes from the Wall Street Journal article on Ms. Wintour.

• “She didn’t need my authority to do it—she has a remarkable ability to impose her will. If I had had reservations, she probably would have gone ahead anyway.”
• During a trip to China last fall, she was asked during a press conference whether she was really like that. “It’s true, of course, that I beat all my assistants, lock them in a cupboard and don’t pay them,” she deadpanned.
• In 1967, 17-year-old Anna dropped out of school to join London’s wild fashion dance. (17 years old! dropped out of school! now is one of the most powerful business women in the world!)
• Grace Mirabella, then Vogue’s editor, asked Wintour what job she would like if she came to the magazine. “Your job,” Wintour is said to have replied without blinking.
• Wintour concedes she might have pushed the point there: “I’m not terribly proud of putting the Spice Girls on the cover,” she says
• She threw all of Italy into a tizzy last year when it was discovered she would spend only four days in Milan during February’s fashion week. Emergency meetings were called, designers frantically demanded to reschedule their shows and every one scrambled to squeeze 88 runway shows into 70 hours to accommodate her abbreviated stay.
• Her own CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, which raises millions for young American designers, has become something of a model in Europe. She got the idea in 2001, when the World Trade Center disaster disrupted New York’s fashion week, leaving young designers financially stranded. The fund now has a $10 million endowment, and has launched similar programs in Milan and London.
• At a screening of “The Devil Wears Prada,” based on a roman à clef by a former Wintour assistant, she wore Prada (she also wore Prada on the cover shot. perhaps a little wink to the idea?)

Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704893604576200722939264658.html#ixzz1HTNUueW1
She’s amazing. Also, I saw her once in real life. On Fashion’s Night Out. She walked in front of me with her entourage and her giant sunglasses, even though it was nighttime. It was just as awesome as you’d expect.