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The rumors had been swirling around the fashion ether for the last few months, but until The Post article appeared, no one had dared voice them in anything except a whisper. It was just so hard to imagine. Ms. Wintour has been shaping our experience of fashion and dressing and fame for as long as most people can remember.
Yet, though Condé Nast denied the article via unnamed spokesmen, and Robert A. Sauerberg Jr., the chief executive of Condé Nast, sent an internal note to his editors telling them to dismiss the gossip (and though the section of the article stating Ms. Wintour had already arranged an exit interview with The New York Times is incorrect), it didn’t shut down the buzz.
Matters were not helped by the fact that while Jonathan Newhouse, the chairman and chief executive of Condé Nast International, whom The Post suggested was coming back to the United States to be chairman of the American arm, denied his part of the story to the Business of Fashion website, the article didn’t say anything about Ms. Wintour. The smoke continued to rise until, at the end of last week, Mr. Sauerberg had finally had enough.
“I am happy to tell you there is no truth to the rumors of Anna’s departure,” he wrote in an email to me. He called Ms. Wintour “a great partner as we continue our ongoing efforts to transform the company into the future.”
