The Recent Spring Festival Gala in the fashion industry has always been a star-studded star, but the most interesting thing for Uncle is such a person -
She can always walk through this flower bush with her head held high, and the leaves do not stick to her body.
She never participated in this game of you competing for the layout, because it was she who created it.
Just like she never needs to judge where the wind of fashion trends should blow, because she is the wind itself.
This person is the planner who single-handedly transformed the Met Gala from a mediocre charity party into a Vanity Fair Spring Festival Gala;
It is also the power center of the fashion empire that has been calling the wind and rain for decades, and the 73-year-old editor-in-chief of the American vogue - fashion witch Anna Wintur.
Wear the latest haute couture dress with CHANEL 2022 feather bead embroidery and signature gold bobo head + stiletto sandals.
Changing the style of sunglasses in the past, the corners of her mouth with a quiet smile hide a faint hint of downside.
Quietly highlights this weightless queen style.
Today we will talk about how this legendary female demon of the fashion industry was refined.
01
Beauty Power Alone:
The iron-fisted female demon head, a combination of ambition and boldness
Anna was born in 1949 in London, England, into a well-to-do, elite Kochi family, where her father, Charles Winthur, was a magazine editor who devoted her life to the news media.
In addition to hearing about her father from an early age, Anna also spent her youth in the golden cultural wave of London in the 60s.
She rebelliously dropped out of school at the age of 16 and knocked on the door of fashion media for the first time at the age of 21 with the help of her father as an assistant editor for Harper Queen magazine.
Over the next two decades, she moved between Britain and the United States, from an assistant editor in charge of chores to a fashion leader in charge of brand life and death.
The climbing and rolling out of a thoroughfare.
1. The splendor of the female demon head
What does Anna mean in the fashion world?
There is a saying that goes something like this:
"In the film industry, even without Spielberg's advice, you can still make a blockbuster movie;
In the IT world, even without bill Gates' help, you can still release your own software;
But in the fashion world, if you haven't been favored by Anna Wintour, you can't succeed. ”
If VOGUE determines what's going on in people's wardrobes next season, Anna decides what's going to happen on VOGUE.
During Anna's tenure, many breakthroughs were made and even changed the course of fashion history.
She not only made VOGUE a fashion bible, but also founded the VOGUE Fashion Fund to discover young talents in the design industry;
Host the Met Gala Charity Dinner and develop it into a feast for fashion celebrities.
Jorn Galliano, the chief surgeon of Dior, and Wang Daren, who founded Alexander Wang, were both introduced by Anna
And the overwhelming glory also pushed her to the position of fashion queen.
Fashion Week schedules have all been adjusted to her schedule, with the new Fashion Institute named after her in 2014 under the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Queen herself knighted in 2017.
2. Female demon head style boldness
So what did Anna Wintur rely on to sell VOGUE?
Rebellion, ambition and keen insight are all indispensable.
Her ambitions were so blunt that when interviewing VOGUE, she said directly to grace Mirabella, the editor-in-chief at the time, "I want to do your job."
Grace Mirabella, vogue editor-in-chief at the time
In 1988, when The 39-year-old Anna officially took up the position, she began a radical innovation.
The first cover directly let the model wear a 10,000-piece Chistian Lacroix shirt with dozens of jeans.
This "civilian fashion" shocked the fashion industry, which prides itself on a sense of nobility.
But her attitude towards it is quite playful, "taking the arrogant grandeur of haute couture and jokingly diving into real life to see what happens."
She also changed the tradition that only models can be covered, and opened a new trend of celebrities and celebrities.
In 1989, Madonna appeared on the cover of the first VOGUE star
This keen and profound fashion sense has pushed VOGUE's topic and attention to the peak again and again.
Both U.S. First Ladies have been on the cover
Magazine prints and advertising revenue continued to break historical records, and Anna even single-handedly revitalized VOGUE's parent company, Condé Nast.
3. Female devil-headed style
Lauren Weisberger, the original author of "The Queen In Prada", served as Anna's assistant, and she was also the prototype of the female demon head played by Aunt May.
Arrogant and cold, picky and harsh, not smiling, fierce, when the work is not satisfactory, it will not give the other party a merciless face.
These qualities in the film are almost repeated in Anna's documentary September, and this sense of oppression in real life only increases.
You can see the main designer of YSL smiling in the recording footage, and the boss of the high-end department store is all based on her opinion.
She is also accustomed to wearing sunglasses to hide her emotions, because many brand designers and staff always act according to her eyes.
02
The Savage Upwards of Beauty:
Hate her, but can't kill her
From fame to profit, from fashion to wealth, to top connections and positions of power.
This woman's iron fist means are not only reflected in the fashion business, but also in the social vanity fair she also has to win.
She herself shows the cruel reality of the fashion world: the desire for fame and fortune, and never waiting.
Give Hillary Clinton a self-nomination to raise money for the Obama campaign...
Her strategy has always been to take the initiative and attack fiercely, seizing any possible opportunity to climb up desperately, even if there is no chance to create opportunities.
With her friendship with Hillary, Anna was granted the right to communicate personally with Princess Diana during her visit to the United States
The treatment of powerful celebrities is even more important.
From her father and husband to all kinds of lovers and friends, she has a clear goal, is good at using any interpersonal relationship to pave the way for herself, and the wives of successive presidents have all become close friends.
So we can see that the French president bent down to award her, the Queen of England watched the show with her, and the first lady of the United States praised her "full of respect and admiration".
Always firmly occupy the C position
And the dark complexity of human nature and the catching of horses she still has.
She was passionate about fur (ps: uncle felt that artificial fur was perfectly sufficient, not advocating this practice), and never cared about political correctness. But the set of utilitarian hypocrisy of the egoistic elite, she can also handy.
Former colleague and close friend Andrea Leon Tully broke the news that she was high and low
Some of the shoots have been criticized for allegedly racism, which is really unfair to African-American models
People who live to the extreme, how many people love her, more people hate her.
But he hated her, but he could hardly kill her.
So far, there has not been a second phenomenal legend like her in the fashion industry.
03
Beauty Power's Self-Excitement:
Live only for yourself and without apologizing
Fashion trends are fleeting, but when it comes to Anna Winthur, the golden bobo head from the age of 14 is the eternal standard.
In addition, vintage sunglasses, a large-grained gemstone necklace stacked around the neck, a stiletto heel sandal, and printed clothing that never sticks to a single color.
It is also an aesthetic hallmark of her very personal style.
In the fashion world where black is the sacred virtue, he hates black very much, and he unswervingly loves fur in an environment where all celebrities promote animal protection (ps: again, I would like to say that this practice is not recommended).
While sticking to the zero figure, he also has a very muscular arm with a very bodybuilding style.
This is Anna Wintur, both contradictory and determined, in order to not change.
In terms of life and rest, she is extremely strict and self-disciplined.
Get up at 5 o'clock every day to play tennis, the arm is as muscular as a professional player; Vanity Fair walks the rivers and lakes, but can do not stick to the wine.
Anna and her daughter, in her 70s, look more capable and powerful
Talking about countless relationships, boyfriends have everything from journalists, record producers, psychiatrists, to investment tycoons.
In every love or marriage, she was criticized for using the man as a stepping stone and using them to help her achieve a higher level of life.
Shelby Brian, an ex-boyfriend investment tycoon, both cheated and divorced, fell in love for 20 years and broke up in 2020
But she never cared what others thought, and at the age of 73, she still chose to break up and fall in love again.
Online rumors of the current boyfriend British actor Bill Nye
In an interview, she said:
"If there's one thing I wish you could learn, it's taking responsibility for your decisions and being responsible for your true self without having to apologize for it."
And this sentence also reflects the spiritual attitude that runs through her entire life.
Face the camera and laugh boldly
It's not an example of moral or personality perfection, but like it or hate it, as Anna Wintour, she's wonderful enough.
The power of beauty, there is softness and rigidity, this barbaric upward growth path, but also a reference for strength.