Anna Wintour Out of Vogue Soon?

[Miss Dalloway]

Oooh woah, this is getting more and more exciting with each little rumor, thanks for posting that MMA.

I wonder if she does feel like that, and hey i wouldnt blame her after 20 years of editing the magazine,it wold be incredibly fun to see in what direction the new eic takes it.

 

[Scott]

it honestly would be a welcomed change,in my eyes. american vogue needs a different direction. the redundance of celebrity covers and obsessions with IT designers....it feels as if its run its course there.

i'd really love to see a return to what vogue was about in the old days....like what we see in italian vogue today...yet still distinctly american(i mean you can't stray from that).

 

[cato.]

anna!

let the speculation rumours begin!

 

[fashionable24/7]

It would be nice to see an actual high fashion model on the cover Vogue as it used to be back in the day. However American's are completely obessed with actresses---not to take anything away from actresses but they act!!!! I believe it will be interesting to see how it all unfolds.

 

[Jane Loves Marc]

PLEASE GOD PLEASE GET ANNA WINTOUR OUTTA THERE
american vogue is embarrasing, its a pretentious society magazine
they need MUCH BETTER STYLISTS too.

 

[eternitygoddess]

I come into this thread and get smacked upside down by a history debate.

Speculation runs rampant.

I like Vogue. It truly caters to the rich, lazy, elite and it's nice to escape into a world where people can dump $1000 on shoes like it's nothing.

 

[Acid]

the fashion magazine world is getting harder and harder as digital media and high street fashion swallows up their niche

 

[Spike413]

I wish I could say I loathe Vogue and Wintour as much as so many others do...but I don't.

Do I think US Vogue gets tedious? Yes. Would I like to see it improved upon? Yes.

But I can't help but admire the fact that Wintour has made Vogue as powerful, if not more powerful than it was in the Vreeland days. No amount of boring covers and repetitive eds can change the fact that under Wintour, Vogue matters. I don't have to like it, but that's the way it is.

As for the rumors, I'll believe them when they come to fruition. I don't know why, but I just always pictured Anna working in her office until the moment she's ready to pass on, like Lagerfeld.

 

[cato.]

^ it's so true though .. Anna is the queen, if she says there the December cover should be beach themed then so be it.

 

[Style-Addict]

This is a very interesting discussion.

 

[Harumi]

No amount of boring covers and repetitive eds can change the fact that under Wintour, Vogue matters.

Well yes it does but not in the way it should. Vogue US is all commerce and no creativity, which, while it reflects the current state of the fashion industry, is nothing to gloat about. Why doesn't Wintour uses her vast power to support real talent in her pages as opposed to It designers who really are glorified stylists. Why so little McQueen and Owens and so much Posen and D&G? Vogue's only role nowadays is to shift large amount of perfume and bags to their readership through shameless name-dropping disguised as fashion editorials. I still think Vogue was more powerful under Vreeland because it made fashion instead of just following and marketing it.

 

[shirleebee]

To her credit, she's been good to Gareth Pugh & Rodarte.

 

[Scott]

^yes and she's shown support of the belgians,the brits and the japanese too...or so she makes it seem??? to me these kind acts of 'support' merely seems like a way to keep an interesting readership coming to vogue when she and the other editors feature smaller,more creative talents. however,it's never consistent....if she were really that passionate there would be that duality in each issue but its never like that. just does not seem that genuine to me.

personally,i think carine,franca sozzani and anna piaggi at their respective vogue editions are aeons more influential than anna wintour.

 

[LUXXX]

I don't mind Anna, I just wish she would take more risks with her covers and editorials...

 

[icelynn]

^^I agree. I wish she was more high fashion...but at the same time she's been the editor of Vogue for like ever and someone new would be a great change

 

[LUXXX]

I was excited about that rumor involving the editor at Russian Vogue taking over...I think that would be interesting.

 

[tigerrouge]

In the universe of my imagination, Joan Juliet Buck edits US Vogue and each issue seriously educates and superficially delights the reader - the two things aren't incompatible.

Does intelligent editing belong to a bygone era, driven out by the constraints of commercialism - or does the lack of such editing in US Vogue have everything to do with the lack of such an editor?

Perhaps as soon as we get someone who's culturally rich in their experience of the world - and who can shape the magazine as a door for us to step through into that wider world - we'll get a US Vogue that satisfies on more levels.

 

[MissMagAddict]

In the universe of my imagination, Joan Juliet Buck edits US Vogue and each issue seriously educates and superficially delights the reader - the two things aren't incompatible.

Joan Juliet Buck would be a dream come true & she's American! I adore her

 

[tigerrouge]

In the Rachel Weisz US Vogue, JJB seemed to have 3-4 items in the issue. I wonder if her increasing presence in the magazine is a sign of anything significant. In fact, I'd like to start a rumour that she's a dark horse for the editorship just so we could appreciate her achievements awhile - I think she gets overlooked in the litany of 'admired editors'.

 

[Spike413]

Well yes it does but not in the way it should. Vogue US is all commerce and no creativity, which, while it reflects the current state of the fashion industry, is nothing to gloat about. Why doesn't Wintour uses her vast power to support real talent in her pages as opposed to It designers who really are glorified stylists. Why so little McQueen and Owens and so much Posen and D&G? Vogue's only role nowadays is to shift large amount of perfume and bags to their readership through shameless name-dropping disguised as fashion editorials. I still think Vogue was more powerful under Vreeland because it made fashion instead of just following and marketing it.

I don't know that your assessment of what appears on Vogue's pages is really a fair one. Like shirleebee and Scott have already pointed out, her magazine does feature a wide variety of designers, from the big name advertisers (and make no mistake about it, McQueen falls into that category cause he's got Gucci $$$ backing him. His stuff is always in Vogue and has been for some time) to up and comers like the annual fashion fund finalists, the Mulleavys being the most recent example. Dries Van Noten, Rick Owens, Marni, Ann D, Giles, Christopher Kane...all of them have appeared in Vogue with some regularity and none of them are advertisers. So even though the magazine is pre-packaged into individual, easy to comprehend and consumer friendly bites, the selection of designers that appear on Vogue's pages is pretty well rounded. Besides, it's not like Carine isn't guilty of doing the exact same thing you accused Anna of doing, featuring work by young or "it" designers that she likes on the pages of her magazine. And she, as well as Franca Sozzani, feature just as much Prada, Gucci, Lanvin, YSL, Givenchy and Vuitton as Anna does, but nobody is raking them over the coals for pandering to advertisers. Just because the editorials are more interesting doesn't change the fact that those magazines are just as much about commerce as American Vogue is, they just disguise it better with good photography and a little bit of nudity.

And to say that she doesn't use her power to support real talent is kind of subjective anyway, don't you think?