Fashion giant Anna Winthur, who has long been the editor-in-chief of the American edition of Vogue magazine, broke up with telecom tycoon Shelby Brian at the age of 70.
According to foreign media reports, the latest move of the "Queen of Prada" is often paired with the British actor Bill Ney, who played Captain David Jones in "Pirates of the Caribbean".
Rumors about her retirement have been circulating for so many years, and in addition to the lace scandal, Wintur has appeared most often in the media at events on various fashion occasions.
At the age of 70, she is still the fashion witch who is as fierce as the "atomic bomb".
Interested in business and money, no time to go shopping
Anna Wintur is known as "Atomic Bomb Wintur" in the fashion industry because of her superb fashion standards and picky and demanding personality. She has been Editor-in-Chief of Vogue and Artistic Director of Condé Nast Publishing Group since 1988.
In 2003, lauren Weisberg, who left her post, published the best-selling book The Devil Who Wears Prada, which was later adapted into a film starring Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep, and the story's prototype Winthur was also noticed by more people outside the fashion industry.
But before that, the reputation and controversy surrounding Winthur had already made her a big name.
She was born into a gentry family, her great-great-grandfather was an earl, her parents were highly qualified graduates of prestigious universities, and she met and fell in love at Cambridge University.
In his early years, Winthur attended North London College, a private girls' school. Unlike her parents, she was not a well-behaved student. In school, she rebelled against the school discipline and shortened the length of her skirt herself, cutting her hair at the age of 14 to her later iconic Bobo head.
At the age of 15, she started her first fashion job and began dating older men with a wealth of connections.
Although he did not officially go to college, At the request of his parents, Wintur also attended fashion training classes.
But soon after, she gave up the course.
Wintur argues that this is not something that can be changed through learning, "You either understand fashion or you don't understand it." ”
In 1983, Winthur became Vogue's first creative director, and she later had more control over the magazine than any previous editor.
Not only is she ambitious, aiming at the ideal reader, but also an equally savvy new woman: "She's interested in business and money, and she doesn't have time to go shopping." ”
"The Queen Who Wears Prada" made Wintur famous, but to many of Wintur's former subordinates, she was a "terrible boss" and once caused the dissatisfaction of many fashion magazine employees.
After the film aired, Winthur's sharp style was controversial and admired by some members of the public. After all, with complaints comes a steady stream of advertising sales.
You don't have to care about them
In 1997, Winthur and Brian met at a ballroom at the New York Ballet, when the two were middle-aged and had already gone from home.
Wintur and psychiatrist David Schaffer have two children, and billionaire Brian is with his second wife, Catherine Brian.
In 1998, newspapers large and small in New York were eyeing their romance, and everyone was talking about it.
Winthur said strongly through a New York magazine, "In tabloids, everyone has something they don't want to be read by others." If your friends and family have one opinion about this and the outside world has another, you don't have to care about them. ”
A year later, Winthur and Brian ended their marriages and lived together in the small town of Greenwich, New York, where they did not get married, but often traveled together, watched tennis matches, and attended fashion events together.
Her friends say that being with Brian has made her personality seem to have become docile as well, and that those years "she smiled and sometimes could still see the look of laughter." ”
When together, it was violent, and the breakup was silent.
It wasn't until this year's media coverage that it was learned that Winthur and Brian had separated in private years earlier and that they had not made public appearances together for a long time.
Beginning in 2013, the relationship between the two began to deteriorate, and Brian owed the IRS $1.2 million in retroactive taxes, whether it was related to this.
As good as Wintur, it is difficult for those around her to keep up with her.
After more than 20 years with Winthur, Brian returned to his hometown of Texas. Rumor has it that he is now with his ex-wife, Catherine, who later married her husband, investment banker Damon Mezzakapa, who died in 2015. But Catherine's associates denied this, saying that after Brian began an affair, their relationship ended completely.
Will she feel lonely when she comes home?
And Wintur's life is not good, she is picky about others, but also picky about others. The U.S. edition of Vogue magazine has often been questioned in recent years for its elitism and lack of diversity.
"Except for the big people who have fame and power to make Vogue famous, she is not influenced by anyone." André Leon Tully, a 70-year-old veteran fashion editor, directly accused Winthur of being too snobbish and "inhumane", firing him simply because he was "too old, too fat, and not cool".
The two had been friends for decades before, and Tully said he would accept it if Wintur emailed him or made a phone call about it. But there was nothing, and Ventur suddenly cut him in two.
"I understand that nothing lasts forever. But I wonder if she would be in pain when she came home alone at night? Will she feel lonely? ”
No matter how Winthur feels in private, no matter how much rumors have swirled over the past few years about her retirement, she remains in that one-size-fits-all leadership position.
In a master class, Winthur shared the only secret of his success as a teenager: self-discipline.
Wintur wakes up at 4 a.m., plays tennis for an hour at 5:45 a.m., gets dressed and gets her hair done, and goes to Vogue's office. Her breakfasts include Starbucks coffee, lunch is a burger or steak without bread, and other recipes are "smoked salmon and scrambled eggs almost every day." Busy until five o'clock in the afternoon, she returned home, worked on various magazine layouts, photos and samples, and then went to bed at 10 o'clock in the evening.
She always arrives early before the show starts, "I use the waiting time to call and take notes, and from the process of watching the show I came up with a lot of good ideas." ”
Ventur's social activities include small dinners and socializing in the workplace. Her friend said that Wintur can be very charming when needed. "She'll let everyone be able to surround her, find the right place, and be very good at adjusting the atmosphere."
But she rarely stays at parties for more than 20 minutes.
That's just because I'm trying to be the best
"She grew old not only gracefully, but fashionably. She changed the rules of what age should be worn. A colleague of Winthur's many years said that after becoming a grandmother, Wintur had said that he wanted more grandchildren, but in fact there was no sign of returning home to tease his grandchildren.
There are various evaluations of Wintur, and some friends praise her talent, saying that her personality is actually very shy and has always been misunderstood by the public.
Wintur herself has said that she admired her father's "incomprehensible" look.
A friend told the media that Winthur used to be very rude to many people, would not make small talk, forbade low-level employees to talk to him, and would never become friends with assistants. She sometimes treats celebrities equally, including directly telling talk show host Oprah Winfrey that she should lose weight and asking Hillary Clinton not to wear a blue suit...
Many people criticize Winthur's elitism, but perhaps this ruthless aesthetic is the essence of fashion.
"If someone feels callous, it's just because I'm trying to be the best." Wintur said.
It's rare to see her take off her sunglasses.
In fact, Wintur's sunglasses were first used as corrective glasses to alleviate the decline in vision, but after many years, they have long become "real armor", so that people can never guess her true views.
Even in recent years, Winthur and "new love" Bill Nye have gone to london theatres to see the show, wearing sunglasses the whole time, and the actor complains that she "only took it off at halftime".
Wintur himself explained that the benefit of this was that "when I'm bored, no one can see it."
Compiled from foreign media
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