Getting Rid of Anna Wintour

She should have been given the heave-ho after putting the vulgar Kim Kardashian on the cover.

She’s one of those people who hold onto a position with the knowledge and information that they’ve learned over the years about others at the company and in the industry. Essentially silent blackmail.

She'll age out. She's a corporate titan with a.nkce British pedigree more than she is a fashion titan.

Heave ho.

OP - Tim Gunn

Unfortunately, she’ll get the luxury of retiring when she’s damn well good and ready. Carine Roitfeld was the natural choice as her successor years ago, but at 69 she’s probably looking toward retirement as well.

I remember several years ago, when Anna’s retirement seemed imminent, Sarah Jessica Parker was being floated as her replacement. But that ship has sailed and it seems as though Condé Nast would be back at square one when Anna departs.

One thing is for sure: Anna will have the luxury of hand-picking her successor. Edward Enniful (former editor of British Vogue) showed he’s ready and willing, but Anna seems to be forcing him to wait backstage as a global ambassador for Vogue. I wouldn’t put it past her to push someone else as her replacement even though Edward is dutifully playing the game.

I'm not sure if Wintour holds dual American and UK citizenship, but it was reported that if Hillary would have won in 2016, Wintour would have been a shoo-in as US Ambassador to the UK.

That would've hastened her exit from Vogue. Ethically I don't think you could hold both jobs.

I think eventually it'll be revealed that ana wintor is really some sort of hologram generated by a Synergy like computer.

OP = JLo.

Enninful was devastated, (and rightfully so, imho) when Wintour usurped his chair next to Queen Elizabeth II when she appeared at a fashion show.

He fully expected the prime seat next to Her Majesty and Wintour maneuvered it somehow that she was there. I suppose she could have been upfront about it and said to him "I'm sitting next to Q E II".

But, iirc, correctly Enninful felt manipulated by Wintour over the whole thing.

Ad buys and consumers vote with their pocketbooks and clicks.

Nobody is THAT great at their job that no one else can do it. I'm tired of seeing her sour puss face and her gentle threatening of anyone in the fashion industry.

She's a nepo baby also.

[quote]She’s one of those people who hold onto a position with the knowledge and information that they’ve learned over the years about others at the company and in the industry. Essentially silent blackmail.

Or they have "The List."

American Vogue has been terrible for a while. Anna is definitely out of touch at this point and she can barely reach millennials let alone Gen Z.

R7 Wintour’s mother was an American so she’s a dual citizen—and a big democratic fundraiser.

British Vogue is also superior to American Vogue. Anna is definitely spiteful. British Vogue is way more in touch with the youth.

She's a goblin. How else could she so fugly and bereft of style have a stranglehold on the major fashion publication and industry at large for so long. She's an agent of the Dark Lord and drinks the blood of babies.

During the last year of my Vogue subscription, the first thing I would look at was the Letters section to find the fawning, overly flattering letter to Vogue about Vogue. Just praising the magazine to high heaven. It was nothing specific, just a general love letter and it was always there. This was well into its suckitude, about 15 or so years ago. Why Benita Carmichael of Hot Springs, Arkansas, I don't believe you're a real person!

How can a woman whose had the same hairstyle for the past 50 years be the arbiter of seasonal fashion?

Wintour thinks fur is the epitome of elegance..

Out of touch indeed.

R20 well, same wig, to be fair.

When Wintour goes, high-end fashion will take another hit. She's really from another era where such things were important.

What’s fashion, precious? Eh? What’s fashion?

Op doesn’t get that she’s in charge of all the magazines , not just Vogue..

Here's the thing though - I don't think anyone gives a FUCK about Vogue or fashion magazines anymore, do they?

It seemed to peak in the 80's and 90s. Now everyone finds their own style online and don't give a fuck what is being shown at the shows.

It's become so predictable and 'done'.

[quote] Here's the thing though - I don't think anyone gives a FUCK about Vogue or fashion magazines anymore, do they?

This. I don’t know anyone that cares about these magazines online or in print.

Not sure how they make any money for Condé Nast.

That’s Fashion Gollum’s job: keeping these zombie publications alive somehow. She appears to be good at it.

Younger people buy LVMH, Kering, Chanel and other luxury brands far more than previous generations. It's available at Nordstrom now.

[quote]it was reported that if Hillary would have won in 2016, Wintour would have been a shoo-in as US Ambassador to the UK.

Wow. Finally, a good reason to have voted for Trump!

Unless she is a majority shareholder or owns the company, she wont get to choose her successor.

Her successor will be Al Gorithm.

I’m available!!!

He was very naive then, r10. US Vogue *always* trumps Britsh Vogue. That's why Anna didn't tell him. She shouldn't have needed to. What did he expect would happen with all the photographers in attendance?

US Vogue hasn't been interesting since 1999. To the glue factory for this one.

Unfortunately, that doesn't matter, r34. The US edition has higher numbers.

Enninful Is no longer at British Vogue. The rumor was he was due to replace Wintour at the US edition but she’s still there and he’s ?

It's not a meaningful publication. It's worthless. She's the queen bee of an empty magazine.

But self-described "tastemakers" still have legacy subscriptions, mainly to keep on their coffee table when the photographers from Architectural Digest come by to document their taste.

Let's not forget that by Vivienne's age St. Angie was already living with a boyfriend for well over a year under her mother's roof.

Vogue needs to be free of the British. It's a bigger world out there than Central St. Giles.

Saint Martins, rather.

Without her, how will I know which belt to pick?

Cerulean Blue 'stuff'

She is rather Trump-esque in her annoying ubiquity and ageless shit haircut.

I sat directly behind her at the movies. The sunglasses came off only after the lights went down and the previews had started. I could see the tags on her sweater-shirt.

...also she ate some Raisinsets that had fallen on the floor and kept slurping on her soda (Large) long after there was anything left in the cup...

I swept up the dust from her withered hindquarters gladly!

[quote] I swept up the dust from her withered hindquarters gladly!

Yes, it’s as dry as the Sahara down there. Since her old buddy and friend Barbara Walters is dead and can’t, somebody needs to step in and send her some of Barbara’s favorite potion - Astroglide. It can work wonders to rejuvenate an old dried up and withered cunt.

Does Anna fuck?

Her daughter lives on my block—so yes, once or twice (she also has a son).

Vogue and/or Conde Nast will probably collapse when Anna goes.

I meant NOW, R49. Somebody point me to the timeline where DL doesn’t endlessly kiss Wintour’s ass please.

US Vogue got the exclusive access to the Bennifer 2.0 wedding.

Wintour made JLo a Met Gala chair.

The Kanye/Kardashian covers.

Anna is no Liz Tilberis.

Remember when some mousy little dame wrote a whole book/movie about working for this maniac? And all the personal sacrifices she made to keep her satisfied?

The book said more about the idiot intern than it did about the cunt who ran the magazine.

I stress-ate myself to death, wondering about the answer to this question.

Thank you, OP. So true.

Fashion is a business, of course, but, as with everything today, technology and social media and the overwhelming need for everyone scrounging for a buck to try to keep above the torrent of marketing today, the industry yields to the loud, simple, stupid, correctness-without-real-equity, too-quick, celebrity-infesting patterns that bring everything down.

Wintour has been an enormous success, on her own terms.

On my terms she is a practicing Philistine who ought to know better but doesn't care, and she's done nothing for fashion in the last 30 years except feather her own pageboy cut and preen. And then there's the Met Gala, an embarrassing, dishonest, quite disgusting parade of ego and cluelessness. At least Capote had the decency to do only one "ball" for his legacy. The interchangeable greased-up mannequins displaying bad clothing unconnected with the purported theme is nothing but a pack of kids off the street invited to wear Mommy's leavings in the attic or rags a friend tied together to show tit gape.

That Met atrocity has raised a few hundred million dollars for the museum. They’re cool with it.

R45's post made me think of this.

I came across an Instagram account called Ladies of Madison Ave which is quite watchable. Most NYC people at soirées, dinners, openings, etc. Social people, not celebrities although there are a few who are both. One reoccurring comment: these people are so much better dressed than those at the Met Gala.

I know just the woman.

How does one banish the undead?

What is former French Vogue editor Joan Juliet Buck up to these days? Been there, done that? At least she can tell an entertaining story.

Fashion magazines seem archaic now.