VIP PROFILE Anna Wintour - Editor-in-Chief of American Vogue BEST KNOWN FOR: her signature style, hands-on work ethic, fashion spreads and editorials, and philanthropy. With Wintour’s signature pageboy bob and sunglasses she has become an important figure in the fashion world, praised for fashion trends and her support for younger designers, see The Fashion Fund. When taking over the magazine left people with raised eyebrows but continued to redefine and reinvent the fashion magazine. Her most-commented-upon innovation? Bringing stars and singers to Vogue’s covers while other publications were fixated on models - Madonna was first in 1989. Behind the editorials Wintour nurtured the early careers of Michael Kors, Alexander McQueen, Marc Jacobs, John Galliano and Proenza Scholuler’s Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough. In 2003 - New york still struggling in the wake of 9/11- she initiated a plan to lend a helping hand to Manhattan’s young talentd with the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund: with a multimillion-dollar endowment and star-studded mentorship program. When AIDS struck the heart of the fashion community, Wintour raised awareness and funds for medical research and services. In the economic slump of slump, Wintour proposed Fashion’s Night Out, a one-night festival of style and commerce, from New York to cities across the globe, to support the fashion industry. In the first year of its FOUR-YEAR-RUN, 800 stores participates, with celebrities drawing in hordes of after-hours shoppers. Twelve months later, 1,000 stores in New York alone signed on, as did retailers in 100 American cities and sixteen countries worldwide; Istanbul shoppers spent $2 million in just three hours. Wintour’s make-it-happen spirit benefited the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since becoming cochair of the yearly benefit gala in 1994.Wintour helped raise $125 million for this hallowed repository of fashion history, which was revamped and renamed the Anna Wintour Costume Center in 2014. Fancy. Film makers got a close-up look at the real-life editor in R. J. Cutlers documentary The September Issue, which followed Wintour and her team through the production of 2007’s 840-page bible, at the time the biggest in Vogue’s history. Heard of the novel The Devil Wears Prada? Wintour’s then assistant based the fictionalized fashion editor-in-chief on Wintour - is she really that...devilish? With passion and editorial instincts, Vogue’s reach, depth and influence has expanded exuberantly during the Wintour years and I believe she won’t any time soon FIRST IN Vogue EDITORIAL: Front Cover of a fresh-faces, tousle-haired nineteen-year-old, laughing in the sun wearing a $10,000 jewel-encrusted Christian Lacroix jacket and Guess Jeans. -- “I remember the printers called us up because they thought we’d made a mistake. Just wanting to check that that actually was the cover.” - Wintour
Posted on: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 16:13:00 +0000
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