ANNA WINTOUR

POWERFUL AND DECEITFUL, THIS IS WHY THE FASHION SYSTEM FEARS THE DIRECTOR OF VOGUE AMERICA

THE DEVIL WITH STILETTO HEEL SHOES DECIDING WHAT IS GOOD AND WHAT IS BAD

Blond pageboy cut and dark glasses.

She banned the tights even if it snows.

So under the Chanel and Prada tailleur she shows always naked legs, slim and trim, despite she is almost 61.

And she runs out from the defile on her stiletto heel shoes before the last model reaches the backstage.

So she almost never claps her hands for the lucky fashion designer of the moment, since she runs away surrounded by body guards, without giving to much satisfaction.

Vogue America’s director earns 2 million dollars per year.

She is the one deciding what is good and what is bad in fashion.

The legend says that her days are all the same and start every time at 6 in the morning, before the tennis match, then the hair dresser and again the cappuccino (her preferred food), then the selection of her personal wardrobe.

Born in London from a noble family, her great-great grandmother was Lady Elizabeth Foster, duchess of the Devonshire, Wintour has been a rebel since she was young: she has been banished from the college because she used to wear too many mini-skirts, she started working as shop assistant at Biba’s because she loved fashion that much, with the indignation of her father Charles, director of the newspaper “Evening Standard”.

No alternative for someone with the fashion running in the blood like her therefore the immediate climb towards the specialized press (Harpers & Queen, Harper’s Bazar, Vogue England) and then in 1989 to New York for running “Vogue America”, following in Diana Vreeland and Grace Mirabella’s wake.

Having left the husband David Shaffer with whom she has had Charles and Katharine, today Anna Wintour is concentrated only on her work and herself.

And she has to protect herself, many people say, from her colleague Carine Roitfeld director of “Vogue France” , who could oust her from his post.