Anna Wintour bio out in Feb

[kimair]

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from the publisher:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Just Desserts: Martha Stewart: The Unauthorized Biography comes a scrupulously researched investigative biography that tells the inside story of Anna Wintour's incredible rise to power

From her exclusive perch front row center, glamorous Vogue magazine editor in chief Anna Wintour is the most powerful and influential style-maker in the world. Behind her trademark sunglasses and under the fringe of her Louise Brooks bob she determines whether miniskirts are in or out, whether or not it's politically correct to wear fur. She influences designers, wholesalers, and retailers globally from Seventh Avenue to the elegant fashionista enclaves of L'Avenue Montaigne and Via della Spiga. In the U.S. alone a more than $200 billion fashion industry can rise or fall on Anna Wintour's call. And every month millions of women-and men-read Vogue, and are influenced by the pages of the chic and trendy style wish-book that she has controlled with an iron hand in a not-always-so-velvet glove since fighting her way to the most prestigious job in fashion journalism.

Anna Wintour's fashion influence extends to celebrities and politicians: because of it, Hillary Clinton underwent a drastic makeover and became the first First Lady to strike a pose on the cover of Vogue in the midst of Monicagate; Oprah Winfrey was forced to go on a strict diet before Wintour would put her on Vogue's cover. And beauties like Rene Zellweger and Nicole Kidman follow Anna Wintour's fashionista rules to the letter.

Now in her mid-fifties, as she nears her remarkable second decade at the helm of Vogue, comes this revealing biography that will shock and surprise both Anna's fans and detractors alike. Based on scores of interviews, Front Row unveils the Anna Wintour even those closest to her don't know. Oppenheimer chronicles this insecure and creative powerhouse's climb to the top of the bitchy, competitive fashion magazine world, showing up close, as never before exposed, how she artfully crafted and reinvented herself along the way.

She's been called many things-"Nuclear Wintour," by the British press, "cold suspicious and autocratic, a vision in skinniness," by Grace Mirabella, the editor she dethroned at Vogue, and the "Devil" by those who believe she's the inspiration for a recent bestselling novel written by a former assistant.

Included among the startling revelations in Front Row are:
* Anna's "silver spoon" childhood spent craving time with her father.
* Anna's rebellious teen years in London, obsessed with fashion, night-clubbing and dating roguish men.
* Anna's many tempestuous romances.
* Anna's curious marriage to a brilliant child psychiatrist, her role as a mother, and the shocking scandal that led to divorce when she had an affair with a married man.

oooohhhhh!!!

 

[saturnine]

What a flattering caricature.

Should make for an interesting read, I'm sure.

 

[oceanharlot]

gag me. she is such an annoying woman, I am so bored by her.

 

[Meg]

agreed. Anna does not determine what is 'in' or 'out'. Usually she can't determine it for herself. Anyone who really cares about fashion takes US vogue with a grain of salt. Didn't they just say now that round toes are in? I mean, they've been on the runways for years now. Give me a break.

 

[mdankwah]

oh this i want to read

 

[pinkcouture]

I'm definetly looking forward to reading this!

 

[model_mom]

I would like to read it too. I'd like to find out what makes her tick.

 

[mikeijames]

I would like to read it too. I'd like to find out what makes her tick.

if we're to believe 'the devil wears prada,' she annihilates rare smith and wollensky steaks: that's the fuel that makes her tick. that, prada, de la renta, and couture.

should be a delicious little read.

 

[liberty33r1b]

if we're to believe 'the devil wears prada,' she annihilates rare smith and wollensky steaks: that's the fuel that makes her tick. that, prada, de la renta, and couture.

should be a delicious little read.

you didn't seriously believe that book about the most impossible boss ever, did you? even though many people thought/think that it was a direct reference to mrs. wintour, i did not buy this and still don't believe so........but i loved the book for it's excellent insight into the fashion world, i.e. the world of fashion magazines.

and I'm looking forward to reading this new book! can't wait!!

 

[liberty33r1b]

and: wasn't it already due this september?? i remember reading about it in summer.....

 

[faust]

It is really pathetic whom today's society puts on a pedestal. Really pathetic. WTF has she contributed to this world? Absolutely nothing. If anything, she made it uglier.

 

[mikeijames]

you didn't seriously believe that book about the most impossible boss ever, did you? even though many people thought/think that it was a direct reference to mrs. wintour, i did not buy this and still don't believe so........but i loved the book for it's excellent insight into the fashion world, i.e. the world of fashion magazines.

and I'm looking forward to reading this new book! can't wait!!

no i know it was a work of fiction but certain proclivities like the eating of huge steaks and her dedication to de la renta and prada hav been noted LONG before that book came out

 

[Toxxxic]

Someone needs to give Anna a hard b*tch slap. This women is just uhhhhhhhhhhh. She had no rule of fashion for herself: who am I to be told what to wear when the women dictatiing the commands can't even get herself a decent haircut. Just retired you old hag.

 

[stylegurrl]

Meg, Faust and Toxxxic, I agree with you all. Anna Wintour needs to be spanked and sent packing back to England.

 

[liberty33r1b]

Meg, Faust and Toxxxic, I agree with you all. Anna Wintour needs to be spanked and sent packing back to England.

sooo not agreed!!!

 

[model_mom]

good article from the Hearld about Anna,

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/32868.html

 

[lady grey]

uh

you didn't seriously believe that book about the most impossible boss ever, did you? even though many people thought/think that it was a direct reference to mrs. wintour, i did not buy this and still don't believe so........but i loved the book for it's excellent insight into the fashion world, i.e. the world of fashion magazines.

and I'm looking forward to reading this new book! can't wait!!

it was written by a former vogue asst and directly based on nuclear wintour

 

[mishahoi]

good article from the Hearld about Anna,

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/32868.html

quite insightful... i hope to get my hands on this book because im eager to read it now. thanks for the link~

 

[foxinthesnow]

I've read it- a one evening and somewhat insomnia filled night kind of book. Oh the shame.

 

[mishahoi]

so did anyone else read this? i think i had my jaw dropped the entire time i hid in my house pulling an all-nighter.... i can't believe some of the stuff this woman has gotten away with (if it is at all true). and the book really makes it seem that if she wasn't so totally "*gorgeous*" (which i swear every single person interviewed gushes on and on about) then she wouldnt be where she is today... i've been trying to find some pics of her when she was younger, but have had no luck...