On Thursday, Vogue’s chief editor, Anna Wintour, sent crash waves through the media world when the style icon announced that she moved away from the paper after more than three decades running the fashion Bible: with an iron fist.
“Power for her was what was. Power Aphrodisiac,” said Jerry Oppenheimer’s magazine staff for her 2005 book “Front Row: Anna Wintour”, something like being in Wintour’s orbit.
Winter, 73, inspired Meryl Streep’s ice queen famous to the “Wears Prada” devil, and those who worked with her say that the portrait was exact. In “Anna: The Biography”, Amy Odell’s author writes about Wintour, who requires her three helpers to do everything, from handling her pets to organizing her clothes.
An old publisher who worked under Wintour recalled the expectation that she was on heels, not flats, when her head was on the ground.
He also recalled that it was understood that Wintour only let the most beautiful attendees work the Met gala.
Merle Ginsberg, a long -time fashion writer and a exeditator of Women’s Wear Daily, W Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar, among others, recalled Wintour of the first meeting during an interview for a senior publisher in Vogue in the 1990’s, when he worked at W.
A friend of Vogue had helped him to do -the interview and gave Ginsberg’s strict advice on what to wear, saying -he should not “a dress and a coat that is, without half, Anna hates the stockings and Manolos”.
Ginsbreg followed his instructions, but the interview did not go well.
)[I] It was really shaking when I went there. I remember his desktop was far from where he was sitting, such as “Devil Wears Prada”. First question: “Why should you hire you if Patrick McCarthy a W will I hate me?”, Ginsberg recalled. “He never looked at me in his eyes.”
Wintour then asked him to put some stories. Ginsberg began to offer ideas, but they were not well received.
“She detained me [and said]”Vogue is a supermarket magazine, these ideas are too exalted,” said Ginsberg. It’s not surprising, he didn’t get the job and, he said, Wintour told McCarthy that he had requested.
)[I] You couldn’t believe that, “added Ginsburg.
An old staff at Lucky Magazine, which closed in 2015, recalled a completely different interaction but coldly with Wintour.
After a meeting in Lucky, Wintour left, forgetting to take his wallet.
“Someone called that he had left him,” the source said to The Post. “Anna stopped and kept her hand behind her without giving -one of my co -workers ran to put her in her hand and Anna just kept walking.”
Over the years, a tradition has been developed around Wintour and its peculiarities. According to a hairdresser who comes to his house to explode his perfect bob every morning at 6 am. He hates the black color and loves his British, such as the good friend Sienna Miller and the restaurateur Keith McNally.
In Oppenheimer’s “front row”, Laurie Schechter, who started as a Wintour’s assistant in Vogue and became a style publisher, describes his former head as “very mercurial”, noting “is very similar to fashion: short skirts this season, long skirts.
Schechter claims that he lost in some major magazines due to Wintour’s advice.
“Anna knew about my capabilities and, if you are a potential threat to her, competition for her, she will not help you to do a better job to compete with her,” said Schecler, who finally left Conde nast, told Oppenheimer in his book.
The author also writes about Wintour’s “horrible treatment” of creative staff fashion publishers Liz Tilberis and Grace Coddington. During his time as a British Vogue chief editor.
)[They] He believed that Anna was out to get them, “writes Oppenheimer in her book. When Coddington was forced to become a Polaroid in Anna before the real shooting took place, Anna would only respond strongly,” like this “or” I don’t like “. And if the latter had to return.”
While Coddington had decades of experience, Oppenheimer says that Wintour treated her “as a low intern and even scolded her if she was for lunch and a few minutes late returning to the office.”
Wintour has a taste for blood, not only when it comes to office policy.
In a viral video of Tiktok, famous chef Geoffrey Zakarian described how he entered the lambs club for lunch every day and would have a cappuccino; A “very rare”, a very salty burger, without brioche; and a small pot of puree potatoes by Robuchon Ultra-Co-Buttery.
“She would eliminate everything in 15 minutes,” Zakarian says in office.
Other popular restaurant have fewer memories.
In his book “Your Table Is Ready”, Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, the old maître d ‘in several most important restaurants in New York, writes that Wintour was “absolutely horrible”, and “would leave without reservation and demand a table”, to Raoul’s to Soho. He would then order a “very rare” steak and requested to be served immediately.
“God did not forbade it to be the least too cooked. He would look at the server as if he had just served his rat and sent him back and again,” he writes. “I would think raw meat would make it less blood.”
In 2022, he reminded the place that Wintour once showed a raoul and insisted on sitting in the back room, although they closed this section for the night.
“We had to keep a waiter there and give him his own waiter. Boy, he was that angry waitress,” said Cecchi-Azzolinat. “Boy, was that angry waitress.”
The post has contacted Wintour and Conde Nast for comments.
For those who could deal with Anna’s demands, the rewards could be excellent.
“I met some of his assistants. I have to say, he gave them all the promotions if they worked hard,” Ginsberg said.
While Wintour is changing his approach, he does not retire in any way. She will remain as head of global content of Conde Nast and Editorial Director Global de Vogue. The magazine will hire a chief of editorial content that will inform you.
Tina Brown, Vanity Fair’s former Chief Editor, New York and Daily Beast, told The Post that Wintour will be very involved in Vogue pages.
“Being queen of the glamosphere never stopped working again than anyone I know,” he said. “He won each hit and suspect that as Conde Content General Director, he will never fully transfer his domain for Vogue.”
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