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In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

  
  Anna Wintour Biog
In May 1997, Wintour revealed that her career had got off to a "shaky start" following her decision to finish her education at the age of 18.
With her razor sharp bob, slim build and sunglasses - which she reportedly wears to shield her eyes from the fashion shows' flashbulbs - Anna Wintour is the fashion industry's ultimate icon.
Wintour, the daughter of Charles Wintour, former Editor of the Evening Standard, has two children by her first husband, Dr David Schaffer, Chief of Child Psychiatry at Columbia Presbyterian.
www.vogue.co.uk /whos_who/Anna_Wintour   (272 words)

  
  ANNA WINTOUR | Fashion Vue Magazine
Anna Wintour is considered one of - if not the - most influential people in fashion today.
Born in Britain on November 3, 1949, Wintour is known for her flawless (albeit icy) exterior and haughty attitude.
Wintour's love of fur makes her a constant target of the animal activist group PETA before, after and during fashion week.
www.fashionvue.com /directory/anna-wintour.htm   (284 words)

  
 Anna Wintour at AllExperts
Anna Wintour (born November 3, 1949 in London, England) is the Editor-in-Chief of the U.S. edition of Vogue, a position she has held since 1988.
Under Wintour's editorship, the magazine renewed its focus on fashion and returned to the prominence it had held under Diana Vreeland.
Despite knowing the role was allegedly based on Wintour, she stated she had no interest in doing a documentary on the Vogue editor, preferring to draw her inspiration from an amalgam of überbosses she's met over the years.
en.allexperts.com /e/a/an/anna_wintour.htm   (792 words)

  
 Defending Vogue's evil genius - By Amanda Fortini - Slate Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: )
If Wintour didn't return the magazine to Diana Vreeland's oft-lauded avant-garde eccentricity—dramatic-looking models in weird, stagy hats—she had her own vision, which was vibrant and elegant and modern.
This is a pleasure enabled by Wintour's ruthless aesthetic, her refusal to participate in the democratizing tendency of most of her competitors.
I'm always totally prepared to dislike Anna Wintour just by the aura that surrounds her in photographs; her haughtiness and dismissing demeanor seem to come right through the camera.
slate.msn.com /id/2113278   (888 words)

  
 PETA UK >> Feat >> PETA vs. Anna Wintour: It Ain't a Pretty Picture
Dubbed "Nuclear Wintour" by the media for her frosty demeanour, Wintour is fur-bearing animals' worst enemy because her magazine continues to feature dozens of pages of pro-fur editorials and advertising each year.
Wintour is such a notorious fur pimp that she was presented with an award by the Fur Council of Canada.
Wintour was recognised for "her support of the fur industry 'at a time when many of her colleagues were bowing to the winds of political expediency' and not showing furs in their publications".
www.peta.org.uk /feat/annawintour.asp   (316 words)

  
 3 Anna Wintour - TIME
But Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue, says she is determined to use her power for good, not evil.
Despite her reputation for being icy and inscrutable, despite the severe perfection of her hairstyle and wardrobe, Wintour has taken it upon herself to act as something of a den mother to fledgling designers and worthy causes.
Wintour knows that anything that puts fashion in a good light reflects well on her, but she insists that it is for her good deeds, rather than her good taste, that she wants to be appreciated.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,993336,00.html   (448 words)

  
 Anna Wintour - Moviefone
Anna Wintour, through the years, has become one of the most powerful...
With her razor sharp bob, slim build and sunglasses - which she reportedly wears to shield her eyes from the fashion shows'; flashbulbs - Anna Wintour is the...
There is reason enough to suspect that US Vogue editor Anna Wintour is in fact the cloven-footed demon known as Satan.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/anna-wintour/437423/main   (100 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Front Row: Anna Wintour: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue's Editor in Chief: Books: Jerry Oppenheimer   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wintour did not graduate from high school and does not write very well, according to the author..so luck, family background, a strong sense of fashion and animal agressiveness played a large role in her rise to the helm of Vogue's masthead.
Anna Wintour was born the daughter of high-ranking British parents, one a social do-gooder and the other a major newspaper editor.
Wintour may know style, and I love Vogue, but if this is what Wintour is like, she doesn't have a lot of depth.
www.amazon.com /Front-Row-Wintour-Vogues-Editor/dp/0312323107   (2518 words)

  
 Anna Wintour / Jossip
• PETA is pissed at Anna Wintour for traumatizing innocent peacocks, not inviting PETA to her fancy costume gala.
ANNA Wintour is as picky with words as she is with her wardrobe.
But Anna hates the word 'blog' so much, she refuses to call anything on her site a blog and has charged her staff with coming up with a new word that isn't as garish-sounding.
www.jossip.com /gossip/anna-wintour   (2792 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Front Row: Anna Wintour: Books: Jerry Oppenheimer
Anna Wintour has been called many things over the years: "Nuclear Wintour" by her fearful subordinates at British Vogue, "cold, suspicious and autocratic, a vision of skinniness" by Grace Mirabella, the editor-in-chief whose job she grabbed at American Vogue, and "The Devil" in a recent bestselling roman a clef, written by Wintour's assistant.
Anna Wintour is one of those people that it's almost absurdly easy to hate...
Anna Wintour was born the daughter of high-ranking British parents, one a social do-gooder and the other a major newspaper editor.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312323107/realintegrity-21/ref=nosim   (1034 words)

  
 The Budget Fashionista -Miss Anna (Wintour) Don't Like Fat People   (Site not responding. Last check: )
On the show, Andre confirmed what we already knew "Miss Anna (Wintour, the Vogue Editor in Chief) don't like fat people." I'm pretty sure that she also doesn't like poor people, people who ride the subway, people who can't walk in 4 inch stilettos, Santa Claus, and small children.
Before you start to bash her royal evilness, peep this: Wintour was one of the first embrace the Budget Fashionista concept, featuring a mixture of high and price pieces on the covers of Vogue.
Note: Interestingly, Miss Anna's thoughts sound eerily familiar to the controversial statement made by rapper and preppy style icon, Kanye West.
www.thebudgetfashionista.com /archives/my_glamorous_life/miss_anna_dont.php   (294 words)

  
 Gawker, Manhattan Media News and Gossip
Anna Wintour's spawn was begotten of David Shaffer, chief of Columbia's division of child and adolescent psychiatry, who, another professor has charged, coordinated his systematic "Machiavellian ouster" from the school.
And Anna Wintour was spotted escaping from the nightmare via Town Car this afternoon, accompanied by two older men—with nary a sign of her Charles or Bee.
No wonder Anna Wintour "refuses to call anything on her site a blog and has charged her staff with coming up with a new word that isn't as garish-sounding.
www.gawker.com /news/anna-wintour   (2790 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Front Row Anna Wintour What Lies Beneath by Jerry Oppenheimer
It is also an intimate examination of Wintour’s personal passions and needs, her loves lost and won, and her feuds and achievements.
Anna Wintour’s story is an inside look at one of the world’s most influential women as well as the catty, competitive bitch-eat-bitch world of fashion.
Based on scores of interviews, this revealing biography chronicles the insecure and creative climb of Anna Wintour to the top of the bitchy, competitive fashion magazine world, exposing for the first time how she artfully reinvented herself along the way.
www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0312323115   (349 words)

  
 The Summer of Her Discontent
Anna Wintour, the most powerful woman in fashion, is curled behind a sleek wooden desk in her vast corner office in the new Condé Nast building, a phone tucked beneath her Louise Brooks bob, forehead buried in her hand.
Indeed, Wintour dodged the arrows and soldiered on through August, lunching at her usual haunts and maintaining a high profile.
Friends of Wintour's had long remarked on the disparity between the glamorous editor and her bookish husband, a respected child therapist.
nymag.com /nymetro/news/people/features/1460/index.html   (1434 words)

  
 Talk of the Tents: Anna Wintour is my hero
Wintour sold the couple, dressed in Trovota (whatever that means), by playing the air-kiss game in front of hundreds of photographers this week.
Behind those dark sunglasses, bob cut and stoic expression, Anna Wintour does have a sense of humor.
Anna, dah-ling, call me in August and let's hatch a devilish scheme for Spring 2008 Fashion Week in September.
weblogs.newsday.com /entertainment/fashion/blog/2007/02/anna_wintour_is_my_hero_1.html   (283 words)

  
 Anna Wintour and Carolina Herrera:
Anna Wintour seems to have—if only temporarily—pushed her Pradas and Chanels to the back of her spacious closet to make room for Herrera’s colorful and lady-like designs.
But hey, when Anna Wintour is your name and the dress is by Carolina Herrera, there’s no such thing as a fashion faux-paus.
September 15: Pairing a Vera Wang top with Herrera’s fall collection gold lame skirt, Wintour deviated from her usual head-to-toe one designer look in an ensemble that was decidedly more fashion forward while attending such shows as J. Mendel and Calvin Klein, the latter of which she walked out on.
www.fashionweekdaily.com /scene/fullstory.sps?inewsid=245138&itype=8488   (288 words)

  
 Heard on the Runway - WSJ.com : Anna Wintour Starts on Time   (Site not responding. Last check: )
She usually arrives at fashion shows right on time, and patiently waits for those operating on “fashion time”–45 minutes to an hour behind schedule — to catch up with her.
Wintour co-hosted a presentation with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Balenciaga designer Nicholas Ghesquière at Maison Prunier, a caviar restaurant in the 16th arrondissement.
In a sea of fashionably late people, Vogue editor Anna Wintour is known for her enduring commitment to promptness.
blogs.wsj.com /runway/2007/03/01/anna-wintour-starts-on-time   (489 words)

  
 Is Anna Wintour Satan?
For another, Wintour's destructive powers are so immense as to raise a strong suspicion of supernatural origins.
After a long spell of editorial mayhem and bloodletting in the United Kingdom (where she was dubbed "Nuclear Wintour" by a perceptive press), our subject descended on the States in 1987, and proceeded to lay waste to House and Garden.
Especially because she has failed to increase Vogue's circulation since her editorship began, someday--maybe sooner than we think--this nightmare will be over, Anna Wintour can, perhaps, retire to her subterranean abode, and someone articulate and elegant and fun, someone with intelligence, and generosity, and a healthy appetite, will have that influential job.
pix.popula.com /items/0224/vintage/wintour.html   (984 words)

  
 Anna Wintour — Infoplease.com
ANNA WINTOUR; EXCERPTS FROM A 1989 INTERVIEW IN WHICH VOGUE'S EDITOR IN CHIEF TALKS ABOUT HER FIRST YEAR AT THE HELM.
Wintour proves she's queen of the magazine as a brand; Legendary 'Vogue' editor is more Horace Greeley than she is Coco Chanel.(Anna......
MEMO PAD: ANNA REDECORATES...LOVE IN FOOD.(Anna Wintour of "Vogue")(Colman Andrews of "Saveur ")
www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0880205.html   (235 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Front Row : Anna Wintour The Cool Life & Hot Times of Vogue's Editor-in-Chief: Books: Jerry Oppenheimer   (Site not responding. Last check: )
No stranger to scheming and dreaming, Anna at an early age set her sights on the top job at the American Vogue and, with rudeness, heartlessness, and unmasked ambition, shattered a few lives on her way up.
Born on November 3, 1949, Anna was a healthy tot with a mop of straight, shiny dark brown hair and intelligent, dreamy grayish-green eyes set in a beautiful, tiny oval face. Read the first page
I've always found Wintour to have a dry, not particularly articulate writing style and Oppenheimer confirmed my beliefs when he reveals she was a high school drop-out, without any communication or writing skills.
www.amazon.ca /Front-Row-Wintour-Editor-Chief/dp/0312323107   (1228 words)

  
 Starked NYC, Manhattan Served Fresh » Blog Archive » Anna Wintour: Saving Models, One Calorie at a Time.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Anna Wintour: Saving Models, One Calorie at a Time.
“Anna held a symposium on the issue, and she’s planning another meeting this week,” said one model agency chief.
This entry was posted on Monday, December 11th, 2006 at 4:00 pm and is filed under News, Anna Wintour, Fashion.
www.starkedny.com /archives/anna-wintour-saving-models-one-calorie-at-a-time   (322 words)

  
 Care2 Connect - DawnWatch: New York Times on Anna Wintour fur protests 2/27/06   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wintour may be the public face of the fur consumer.
Wintour and slammed her with some bloody matter packed into a pie tin.
Wintour has perfected a public facade so blank that she makes the ideal screen on which to project almost anything.
www.care2.com /c2c/share/detail/49527   (1519 words)

  
 AMCTV.com SHOW - Boss Women: Anna Wintour
The US television premiere of an original and exclusive look at a day in the life of the most powerful woman in fashion, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.
Speaking candidly about her private and professional life, Anna shares her personal anecdotes and insight into her daily life and the inner workings of the fast-paced world of fashion.
Wintour and her personal guest Sean "Puffy" Combs at one of the season's hottest fashion shows, and then get a VIP-only backstage tour.
www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=60565-1-1   (140 words)

  
 Starked NYC, Manhattan Served Fresh » Anna Wintour   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Anna Wintour Sells Her Soul to herself in an upocming feature length AandE Documentary.
“[Anna] waits forever to bury him and two days after he dies, she’s selling pictures of him to the tabloids and I’m thinking, ‘What a freaking waste of a human being, my sister is.’” -Donna Hogan.
Anna Wintour gets mad at WWD for not making her feel important enough.
www.starkedny.com /archives/category/anna-wintour   (1438 words)

  
 PETA Media Center > Recent News Releases : PETA HAUNTS ANNA WINTOUR AT HALLOWEEN FUR PROTEST
What: Wearing witches’ hats and Anna Wintour masks and holding signs that read, "Anna Wintour: Fur Witch," dozens of PETA members will mark Halloween by gathering outside the office of the evil Vogue editor to protest her morbid relationship with fur.
While some "Annas" will screen grisly undercover videos of dogs and cats skinned alive in China for their fur, other Anna doppelgangers will fly around on broomsticks with signs proclaiming, "I Hate Animals!
Dubbed "Nuclear Wintour" by the media for her frosty personality, Wintour is fur-bearing animals’ worst nightmare because she continues to feature dozens of pages of pro-fur editorials and advertisements in Vogue each year.
www.peta.org /mc/NewsItem.asp?id=7349&pf=true   (244 words)

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