Is Anna Wintour ever going to fall from grace?

sadly doesn't seem like it...though it is amusing, much as I can't stand any of the WhoreTrashians, that Wintour is forced to put up with them as they have become mainstream hollywood now. You know she was pissed about Kanye begging her to put Kum on the cover of Vogue last year.

I don't know much about fashion magazines. OP, do you have any thoughts about who are the most likely women to replace her? She is 65, after all.

No she won't with the public, but if it's any consolation, in her family and well educated circles her job is seen as trivial and unimportant. Her family had higher hopes for her. Running something as useless as a fashion magazine, regardless of its elitism or popularity, contributes nothing worthwhile to society apparently and she should have chosen a "real" career instead. So for all her snobbery there are people that she admires who look down on her.

No but we're living in an exposed age where snobby cows like her can no longer hide away under dark glasses and most people under 25 have no idea (or care) who she is.

It matters what you mean by "fall from grace". I don't think anything big or humiliating is going to happen to her.

I try to push her every day.

R1, Isn't "fashion icon" Amal Clooney going to get another cover very soon? She must have a large European following.

Link please.

Yes she's "been in power" too long, ie., has a big job in the fashion world. Yawn.

[quote]hough it is amusing, much as I can't stand any of the WhoreTrashians, that Wintour is forced to put up with them as they have become mainstream hollywood now.

She wasn't forced into anything. She chose to do business with them. Perhaps she related to sucking cock to get to the top?

While they aren't my cup of tea either many others seem to "put up with " menbers of the Kardashian clan. Case in point; see 2:22

Anna Wintour's powers go but so far; her primary job is to sell issues of Vogue. If Kanye came as a package deal then AW either took things as she finds or move on.

As for her "power", Anna Wintour could probably cause some or major harm to a designer, fashion house or whatever, but that is about far as things go. Yes, she raised funds for Obama and other causes; but then again plenty of women from the UES to Tribeca did the same. Those women either in their own right or by their husbands or fathers are likely in greater positions of power than AW.

anyone who poops ice cream and pees ginger ale will never fall from grace

To people with taste, she already has.

Just look at the last Met Gala: cheap, vulgarities like Beyonce, J-Lo and Kim Kardashian.

That trash washed up on the steps of the Met because of Wintour.

[quote]Just look at the last Met Gala: cheap, vulgarities like Beyonce, J-Lo and Kim Kardashian.

And it makes people realize that A.W. is also cheap and vulgar since she runs with human garbage like Beyonce, J-Lo and Kartrashians.

[quote]and she's been in power forever.

Oh?

She has no power over me nor anyone in my life so I have no fucks to give about her.

There must be a vacuum at the top of our culture, because the people making huge amounts of money and who have a great deal of influence are not only cheap and trashy but they produce work which is bland and middle-of-the-road, yet they seem to have attained a veneer of respect.

She does fly a lot, but, unfortunately, not on Germanwings.

[quote]She has no power over me nor anyone in my life so I have no fucks to give about her.

Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select... I don't know... that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise. It's not lapis. It's actually cerulean. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent... wasn't it who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff.

I love you r18.

I wonder if she's going to face some backlash from high society for letting 4 Kardashians plus Rita Whora into the Met gala.

She really is something of a reptile. She turned Vogue into a star-fucking bore, and seems to have really awful, pedestrian taste if one goes by what she sees fit to cover that isn't entirely fashion-related. And transparently superficial, despite her airs. She's really little more than a jumped-up Connecticut hausfrau.

I've had no respect for Anna since her dirty panties left a skid mark on my white damask sofa at a cocktail party I gave for Bill Blass.

I never quite understood why I was supposed to find the speech quoted by r18 as so revelatory of...something. Not a word of it means the "people in this room" are anything but self-important boors, or that a choice can't be made that is disinterested in the tedious fashion stats she cites. It's really a kind of standard issue neoliberal smackdown: oh, yeah, well it's making money, so fuck you.

R3 →inbred-Bush-Baby faced Hilary Mantel

In order for the speech to make sense, cerulean, versus a slightly different shade of blue, needs to matter.

It doesn't to all but the most superficial.

She's bedded a sufficient number of power brokers that she does not need to worry.

[18]: Are you Vanessa Friedman or Cathy Horyn (with the unfortunate last name)?

When you see the human garbage she promotes at Vogue, that places her just one step over from Ryan Seacrest and Andy Cohen. Watch for the upcoming Vogue devoted to NeNe Leakes.

Anyone who puts potato-faced Carey Mulligan on a Vogue cover with the headline "Ravishing" is obviously an idiot.

The dress she wore to the Met was terrible. I did like her daughter's dress.

There's a video of her answering seventy three questions from Vogue readers. It's the most painfully staged thing you'll ever witness, as she's running around trying to be pleasant to other staff members who are obviously reading scripted lines.

Just remember no matter how hard, fast, or far she falls she will still be above you.

I hope to hell so. The fact that this be-wigged, be-sunglassed, be-bobbed GOLLUM gives half the world their eating disorders infuriates me. She's an ugly, old, dried-up witch and I have no idea how or why she became such an authority on clothing OR magazines. The empress has no clothes. Yeah, yeah, I know, take my meds. Sorry, I just can't stand the sight of her. I'm with Tim Gunn re: his opinion about her.

R32, ooo do tell, what does Tim Gunn say about her? She's no Diana Vreeland, and the Met should have named their costume galleries after DV who, in many ways, put them on the map. I've been going to that museum for 45 years and pre DV it was often a stuffy ghost town. Vreeland also actually changed fashion reporting, had a sense of fun, and was highly quotable. People can't recall anything memorable Wintour says, they just quote Miranda Priestly.

She's almost 70.

She didn't fall from grace back in 1999 after the tabloids picked up that she was cheating on her husband, which eventually led to divorce. She's actually still with her paramour, Shelby Bryan, who was also married at the time and left his wife for Anna.

She hasn't fallen from grace due to any comic depictions of her "nuclear" persona, i.e. The Devil Wears Prada.

She hasn't fallen from grace for declaring any number of vulgar or vapid (or both) mainstream celebs to be "in vogue" by putting them on the cover of that magazine. In fact, she's celebrated for making more money for the magazine.

Nobody's replacing her. She will probably die at the office.