Anna Wintour: Life and times of the fashion icon who co-hosted the Met Gala with Lady Gaga
- ‘The most influential figure in fashion’, Vogue’s editor-in-chief is known for her trademark black Chanel sunglasses, Manolo Blahnik slingback shoes and perfectly styled bob
Perhaps no one knows the ins and outs of fashion better than Anna Wintour, long-time editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine and artistic director at Condé Nast. Donning her trademark black Chanel sunglasses and perfectly styled bob, Wintour has been a fashion-show fixture for decades.
With a reported annual salary of US$2 million and an estimated net worth of US$35 million, Wintour leads the kind of lifestyle any fashionista would envy.
Anna Wintour is the editor-in-chief of Vogue and artistic director of Condé Nast, Vogue’s publishing company.
She is known as “the most influential figure in fashion”.
Her late father, Charles Wintour, was the editor of the London Evening Standard for nearly 20 years. He was reputedly one of the greatest and most influential journalists “in the second half of the 20th century”.
In an interview with Vogue, Wintour said her father taught her about perseverance.
She has two brothers and a sister. She had a third brother who died as a child in a car accident. Wintour said she learned “great reporting” from her brother Patrick, the diplomatic editor of The Guardian.
In the September issue – a documentary about Wintour’s life and career – she said that growing up in London in the 1960s framed her views on fashion and made her fall in love with it at a young age.