Anna Wintour Biography

Anna Wintour

Anna Wintour, OBE (born November 3, 1949 in London) is since 1988 head of the U.S. edition of Vogue. She started her career in 1970 at Harper's Bazaar. In 1986 she was editor of British Vogue, 1987, the House and Garden.

Family and Childhood

Anna Wintour's father, Charles Vere Wintour, was a journalist at "The Evening Standard and first married to Eleanor (" Nonie ") Trego Baker, the daughter of a Harvard law professor, whom he married in 1940 and from whom he divorced her 1979th Her stepmother is Audrey Slaughter, a journalist, is known for the founding of magazines like "Honey" and "Petticoat".

She has four siblings, three of which are still living: James Charles, Director General of the "Gravesham Borough Council, Nora Hilary, director of the Public Services International in Geneva and Patrick Walter, political journalist. Her eldest brother, Gerald Jackson Wintour, who died as a child.

Wintour attended the North London Collegiate School.
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Careers

At 16, she left the North London Collegiate. She decided not to go to college, but took an apprenticeship at Harrods in London.

Her career as a fashion journalist, she began in 1970 when Harper's Bazaar "briefly with" Queen "to" Harpers & Queen "merged. There, they built new and innovative venues for the recordings. For example, they presented works by Renoir and Manet with models in go-go boots. After a short time at a magazine called "Savvy" decided Wintour 1975, a young fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar "in New York to be.

In 1986 she was editor of British Vogue and House & Garden "in the following year.

Under her leadership, focused exclusively on American Vogue fashion again. The September 2004 issue had a capacity of 832 pages and was the heaviest monthly published magazine, which had appeared until then.

Wintour is also responsible for the introduction of the three sister-magazine "Teen Vogue, Vogue Living and Men's Vogue." Your commitment, which was largely responsible for the success of the magazine, brought her the title "Editor of the Year".

Anna Wintour has been over the years, the strongest and most powerful woman in the fashion industry, it sets trends and promotes new designers. The Guardian called it "unofficial Mayoress of New York City" - ie "the unofficial mayor of New York. It has a huge stake in the success of designers like John Galliano (Christian Dior) or Michael Kors.

If Anna Wintour of time to wait, the designers usually from their arrival until they begin their most important fashion shows can be. And other fashion journalists measure their allotted place in the vicinity of her seat.

Privacy

In 1984 she married the child psychologist David Shaffer and was with him two children. The couple was divorced in 1999.

Wintour is curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She also founded the "CFDA / Vogue Fund in order to promote unknown designer.

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