On Thursday, the editor-in-chief of Vogue Anna Wintour sent waves of shock around the media world when the style icon announced that she was leaving the role in more than three decades running the fashion Bible-with a punch.
“The power for him was what everything was. Anna’s Power Aphrodisiac,” told a magazine employee Jerry Oppenheimer for his 2005 book “First Row: Anna WinTour”, an indication of what was like being in WinTour orbit.
Winter, 73, famously inspired by Meryl Streep € Queen of ice ice in â € œDevil wears Prada, and those who worked with her say the portrayal was correct. In “Anna: Biography”, author Amy Odell writes for WinTour asking her three helpers to do everything, from treating her pets to organizing her clothes.
A former editor who worked under Wintoour recalled the reception that she would be on the heel, not in the flats, when the boss was on the floor.
She also remembered that it was understood that WinTour only let the most beautiful assistants work Met Gala.
Merle Ginsberg, a tall fashion writer and former editor for Women’s Wear Daily, W Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar, among other things, recalled the first WinTour meeting during an interview for a senior editor at Vogue Back in the 90s when she was working on W.
A friend in Vogue had helped her make the interview and gave Ginsberg strict tips on what to wear, telling her she should love – a matching dress and coat – without socks, Anna hate socks – and Manolos. “
Ginsbreg followed her instructions, but the interview did not go well.
â € œ[I] It was really trembling when I climbed up there. I remember that her table was far from where I was sitting – as the ‘Devil wears Prada’. Question first: ‘Why should I hire you if Patrick McCarthy in W will hate me?’ “Remember Ginsberg.” She never looked me in the eye. “
Then, Wintour asked her to open some stories. Ginsberg started offering ideas, but they didn’t get well.
“She stopped me [and said]’Vogue is a supermarket magazine, these ideas are highly exalted, ”Ginsberg said. Not surprisingly, she did not get the job, and, she said, told her wintoour McCarthy at the time she would apply.
“[I] I couldn’t believe this, “Ginsburg added.
A former -stab in Lucky magazine, which closed in 2015, recalled a completely different interaction, but similarly to WinTour.
After a meeting in Lucky, Wintoour left, forgetting to get her wallet.
“Someone shouted that she had left her,” he told the posting source. “Anna stopped and held her hand behind her without returning. One of my associates ran to put her in hand, and Anna just kept walking,” €
Over the years, a lore developed around WinTour and its features. She is reported to have a hairdresser to come to her home to blow up her perfect bob every morning at 6am, she has a superiority to leave her sunglasses. She hates black and loves other friends, such as good friend Sienna Miller and restorer Keith Mcnally.
In the “first row” of Oppenheimer, Laurie Schechter “which began as a WinTour assistant in Vogue and became the style editor -” describes her ex -chief as “€ every mercurial”, noticing “she is very fashionable”, “short ends this season, long skirts. It can be a bit like people, too. “
Schechter claims she lost in some jobs of the best magazine due to WinTourâ tips.
“Anna knew about my abilities, and if you are a potential threat to her, competition to her, she will not help you do a better job to compete with her,” ScheCter, who eventually left Conde Nast, said Oppenheimer in his book.
The author also writes about the horrific treatment of creative staff editors Liz Tilberis and Grace Coddington. During her time as editor -in -chief in British Vogue.
â € œ[They] He believed that Anna was out to get them, “Oppenheimer writes in his book. â € œanna constantly demanding Coddington gets reorganization, sometimes three times before Anna signed up. When Coddington was forced to turn into a polaroid in Anna before the current shoot would just respond, ‘ € ™ and if the latter, everything had to be reshaped. “
While Coddington had been experienced for decades, Oppenheimer notes that Wintour treated her “as a low practitioner and even wept if she was at lunch and a few minutes late returning to the office.”
WinTour has a taste for blood – not just when it comes to office policy.
In a viral video Tiktok, the famous chef Geoffrey Zakarian described how she would enter the Lambs club for lunch every day and had a cappuccino; a “very rare”, salty salty hamburger Patty, Sans bun; And a small pot of ultra-bred robuchon mashed potatoes.
“It would destroy all things in 15 minutes,” Zakarian says in the post.
The other restaurant folk has less loved memories of it.
In his book “Your Table is Ready”, Michael Cecchi-Azmolina, former Maã®Tre d ‘in a number of NYC’s best restaurants, writes that WinTour was â € œAbsoli Horrid, â € and will € œMARCH in no reservation and require a table, â € in Soho. She would then order an ever -rare steak and demanded that her be served immediately.
â € œPold stopped it was less overloaded. She will look at the server as if he simply served her mouse and sent her back and redefined it, “he writes.” You think the raw meat would make it less tender. “
In 2022, he remembered the post that WinTour once showed a raoultry and insisted on sitting in the back room, even though they were closing that part for the night.
“We had to keep a waiter there and give her her waiter. The boy, was that whispered waiter,” said Cecchi-Azzolins. “The boy, it was that whispered waiter.”
The post has reached WinTour and Conde Nast for comment.
For those who can deal with side requests, rewards could be excellent.
“I knew some of her assistants. I have to say, she gave them all the promotions if they worked hard,” Ginsberg said.
While WinTour is shifting her focus, she is not retired in any way. She will remain as the leading Officer of the Global Content of Conde Nast and Global Director of Vogue editorial. The magazine will hire a manager of the editorial content that will report to her.
Tina Brown, former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, New Yorker and The Daily Beast, told The post she predicts that Wintoour will be highly involved in the pages of Vogue.
“Being the Queen of Glamosphere never stopped Anna from working more than anyone I know,” she said. “She won every part of her success and I suspect as the Director General of Conde’s content, she will never completely remove her rule over Vogue.”
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