​Anna Wintour

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Mar 2, 2015: Today Show: Anna Wintour: Everyone should be fired once
The Vogue editor-in-chief shares her personal advice for success, saying that getting sacked once teaches you that “perfection doesn’t exist” and that you should pretend to be sure of yourself, even if you’re not.

Aug 3, 2014: New York Post: Dolce & Gabbana demand Anna Wintour kill exposé
Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were so upset about an upcoming Vanity Fair feature on their tax woes, they threatened to pull tens of millions in advertising from Condé Nast and demanded Vogue editor Anna Wintour get the story killed.

Apr 20, 2014: The Wrap: Vogue Is Done With Photographer Terry Richardson After New Sex Allegations
Model Emma Appleton claims Richardson sent message offering photo shoot in the magazine in exchange for sex

Mar 17, 2014: US Weekly: L'Wren Scott Dead: Vogue Editor Anna Wintour Remembers Designer as "Generous," "So Much Fun"
The fashion industry is mourning the loss of L'Wren Scott today -- and not just because of her talent. A few hours after news broke that the model/designer had been found hanging in her apartment in New York City on Monday, March 17, Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour took to her magazine's website to pay tribute to the late style maven.

Jan 17, 2014: New York Daily News: Lena Dunham slams Vogue Photoshop controversy: 'Some s--t' is just too ridiculous to engage'
The 'Girls' creator and star spoke out after a website offered $10,000 for un-retouched versions of her magazine images.

July 5, 2013: The Guardian: Former Vogue editor: The truth about size zero
The fashion industry is not a pretty business. Here, one of its own, the former editor of Australian Vogue Kirstie Clements describes a thin-obsessed culture in which starving models eat tissues and resort to surgery when dieting isn't enough

Feb 28, 2011: The Atlantic: Vogue Defends Profile of Syrian First Lady
The leading fashion magazine talks through its rationale for running a flattering story on the wife of anti-American autocrat Bashar al-Assad

Dec 31, 2008: New York Times: What’s Wrong With Vogue?
NO one at Vogue, least of all its editor in chief, Anna Wintour, could have been seriously stung by a recent letter from a reader complaining that the magazine was in a rut.

Winotu 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 lives in New York.

November 3, 1949: Dame Anna Wintour was born in Hampstead, London.

Sept 11, 2009: 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.”

An intimate, funny and surprising behind-the-scenes look at VOGUE'S legendary editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her team of larger-than- life editors, the 2009 Sundance Film Festival Winner tells the captivating story of how they create the must-have bible of fashion: THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE. Director R.J. Cutler delivers this riveting look into the world of fashion that is as fun, fabulous and fast-paced as the world it captures.

August 24, 2011: Forbes interview article titled ​Vogue's Anna Wintour: Intimidating, No. Powerful, Yes, Wintour said, of herself: "I don't think of myself as a powerful person. You know, what does it mean? It means you get a better seat in a restaurant or tickets to a screening or whatever it may be. But it is a wonderful opportunity to be able to help others, and for that I'm extremely grateful."

January 2014: TYhe Metropolitan Museum of Art named its Costume Institute complex after Wintour.

May 2017: In 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.

May 20, 2020: ​Vogue editor Anna Wintour says coronavirus has been ‘catastrophic’ for the fashion industry: "I think it’s really giving the industry a pause,” Wintour said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” “I think everybody is rethinking what the fashion industry stands for, what it means, what it should be. ....And I think it’s an opportunity for everybody to slow down, produce less, and really make the world over fall in love with the creativity and passion of fashion.....And maybe have a little bit less of an emphasis on things moving so quickly and an emphasis always on what’s new.” 

December 15, 2020: Condé Nast promoted Wintour to the role of chief content officer, worldwide, as part of a restructuring the company unveiled. In addition, she will be working as global editorial director of Vogue.

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