Learn how to be Anna Wintour
Vogue editorin-chief gives out career and leadership advice in online MasterClass
Fashion is a world where the “next new thing” is constantly celebrated, where designers must keep reinventing themselves or risk falling into obscurity.
Atop that world, Anna Wintour remains a strikingly durable and influential presence. Her image never changes: the midi-length, brightly coloured print dresses; the immaculate bobbed hair; the chunky necklaces; and of course the dark sunglasses, which make it harder for everyone to know what she’s thinking.
In her new online MasterClass on leadership, the Vogue editor-in-chief is revealing at least some of what she’s thinking.
She also describes her daily routine (she’s up by 5am and playing tennis before you’ve likely even smelled your morning coffee), opens a Vogue fashion meeting to the cameras and, in a segment sure to be catnip to many fashionistas, sits down with a Met Gala seating chart.
Amid several weeks of non-stop fashion shows, Wintour hopped on the phone from Paris to discuss the new online gig, her unabashed fandom for Broadway shows and what advice she gives her 32-year-old daughter, Bee Shaffer (hint: it’s the other way around.)
You’re known as a fairly private, even mysterious person. What gave you the idea to do this MasterClass?
Well, they came to me. But over the years I’ve been asked so many times by young designers and students for advice Anna Wintour at the Met gala on May 6.
It seems fashion is always about finding the next new thing. At least twice a year, designers have to come up with a new idea.
Way more than that these days! You can go to a Fashion Week every week of the year. I just was on the phone being asked to go to Tokyo Fashion Week. It’s continuous today. It’s also an industry ... in a state of reappraisal Anna Wintour watches the JW Anderson show at London Fashion Week on September 16.