VOGUE AND ANNA WINTOUR

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Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Just Desserts: Martha Stewart:
The Unauthorized Biography comes a scrupulously researched investigative
biography that tells the inside story of Anna Wintour's incredible rise to
power
From her exclusive perch front row center, glamorous Vogue magazine
editor–in–chief Anna Wintour is the most powerful and influential
style–maker in the world. Behind her trademark sunglasses and under the
fringe of her Louise Brooks bob she determines whether miniskirts are in or
out, whether or not it's politically correct to wear fur. She influences
designers, wholesalers, and retailers globally from Seventh Avenue to the
elegant fashionista enclaves of L'Avenue Montaigne and Via della Spiga. In
the U.S. alone a more than $200 billion fashion industry can rise or fall on
Anna Wintour's call. And every month millions of women–and men–read Vogue,
and are influenced by the pages of the chic and trendy style wish–book that
she has controlled with an iron hand in a not–always–so–velvet glove since
fighting her way to the most prestigious job in fashion journalism.
Anna Wintour's fashion influence extends to celebrities and politicians:
because of it, Hillary Clinton underwent a drastic makeover and became the
first First Lady to strike a pose on the cover of Vogue in the midst of
Monicagate; Oprah Winfrey was forced to go on a strict diet before Wintour
would put her on Vogue's cover. And beauties like Rene Zellweger and Nicole
Kidman follow Anna Wintour's fashionista rules to the letter.
Now in her mid–fifties, as she nears her remarkable second decade at the
helm of Vogue, comes this revealing biography that will shock and surprise
both Anna's fans and detractors alike. Based on scores of interviews, Front
Row unveils the Anna Wintour even those closest to her don't know.
Oppenheimer chronicles this insecure and creative powerhouse's climb to the
top of the bitchy, competitive fashion magazine world, showing up close, as
never before exposed, how she artfully crafted and reinvented herself along
the way.
She's been called many things–"Nuclear Wintour," by the British press, "cold
suspicious and autocratic, a vision in skinniness," by Grace Mirabella, the
editor she dethroned at Vogue, and the "Devil" by those who believe she's
the inspiration for a recent bestselling novel written by a former
assistant.
Included among the startling revelations in Front Row are:
* Anna's "silver spoon" childhood spent craving time with her father.
* Anna's rebellious teen years in London, obsessed with fashion,
night–clubbing and dating roguish men.
* Anna's many tempestuous romances.
* Anna's curious marriage to a brilliant child psychiatrist, her role as a
mother, and the shocking scandal that led to divorce when she had an affair
with a married man.