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10 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT ANNA WINTOUR
1. U.S. Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is meticulous in planning ahead. She leaves nothing to chance. In the run-up to her meeting with HM the Queen last week, she sent instructions to Buckingham Palace, insisting that there was no need for Her Majesty to curtsey. ‘A discreet nod will suffice.’
‘Anna’s very thoughtful’, explains an assistant. ‘She was determined to set the Queen at her ease.’
2. MANY fashion insiders believe the reason she wears dark glasses morning, noon and night is that she is clinically blind, following an incident with a hat stand.
But this is not the case. In fact, she wears dark glasses to conceal a second pair of dark glasses beneath.
‘Anna is addicted to dark glasses,’ reveals one associate. ‘Sometimes she wears three or four pairs at a time, with the biggest on the outside.’
This profusion of dark glasses can make it difficult for her to see. This is why she always has an assistant sitting next to her by the catwalk, ready to alert her when each model is passing.
3. TO COMPENSATE for her sight difficulties, she has experimented with a guide dog, but without success.
Having insisted on being accompanied by an exotic doublecrested miniature Tibetan water poodle for the prestigious 2016 Met Ball at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in new york, she found herself being led downstairs to the lower basement and straight into a broom-cupboard.
Luckily, she was discovered by a cleaner three days later, having managed to survive on half a garibaldi biscuit left in the cupboard some weeks earlier by a member of the museum maintenance staff.
4. SHE is a meticulous professional. Vogue staffers say she personally oversees every aspect of the magazine, even hand-drawing the bar- code on the back of each issue.
5. ANNA WINTOUR has been responsible for some of the most iconic Vogue headlines over the past 20 years. classics include Beige is Back!(1997), The Kitten Heel — So Last year (2001), If you only Buy one cardigan This year, Make Sure It’s Large — and not yellow (2016) and The return of The Little yellow cardigan (2017).
6. SHE usually eats lunch at her desk. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, she orders a burger in a bun, but with no burger or bun. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays she will pig out on a single lettuce leaf. The leaf is covered with a dressing of just three drops of Malvern water, each drop individually sourced from Malvern and flown across the Atlantic on its own seat in a private jet.
7. HER wardrobe is colour-coded, with garments hanging precisely one inch apart. Her signature silhouette is a dress with a nippedin waist, a knee-length or longer hemline, and a conservative neckline. But it is completely untrue to say that she is unable to relax.
In 1998, she instituted ‘TrackieBottom Tuesdays’, and encouraged her staff on American Vogue to wear tracksuit bottoms and hoodies to work, and to order KFc with double frenchfries for lunch.
She herself entered into the spirit by arriving at Vogue with the top button of her pink-andwhite chanel two-piece very slightly undone. For lunch, she threw caution to the winds and tucked into a raisin.
8. HER all-time favourite comedian is roy ‘chubby’ Brown.
9. ANNA WINTOUR is busy developing plans to extend the Vogue brand to include Vogue rugby League, with scrum-halves dressed by Dolce & gabbana; Vogue Health, with patients treated only by supermodels; and The Vogue History channel, with forthcoming series on Fashion in the Third reich and Sir Winston’s Fifteen Minute Make-Up routine.
10. WHEN it comes to travel arrangements, Wintour is a perfectionist. Before visiting egypt last year, she complained that it had all become too predictable and needed ‘perking up’.
consequently, she insisted that the great Pyramid of giza (‘so last year!’) was given a coat of fresh paint.
The pyramid was then turned upside-down by Vogue’s team of mechanics, with its pointy- end facing the ground.
Sadly, the Vogue editor remained unimpressed, and decided against putting a photograph of the upturned pyramid in the September issue, opting instead for an archive picture of cara Delevingne frowning.