I know Anna Wintour is the queen of fashion and 'can do no wrong' but...

[Anonymous]

30 years of knowing this fact (I am now 46) and i still cannot reconcile myself to her needing to wear sunglasses at all times. even inside. at night. It just feels lame.
Am i missing something?

[Anonymous]

She's weird and crazy, but everyone is scared to admit it. Shemmm

[Anonymous]

Books have been written and movies filmed about how crazy she is.

[Anonymous]

Maybe she is really albino snd her pupils cant stand the light. Or may just high.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think she is crazy and why do you care if she wears sunglasses. A woman of her success and talent could care less about what you think. I adore her.
I also adore Iris Apfel.
Find someone boring to snub.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes people don’t deserve the reputations they have

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes people don’t deserve the reputations they have

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think she is crazy and why do you care if she wears sunglasses. A woman of her success and talent could care less about what you think. I adore her.
I also adore Iris Apfel.
Find someone boring to snub.

op - i am in no doubt that she does not care what I think. At no point was this post predicated on the idea that she cares what I think.
why do i care? why does anyone discuss anything?

[Anonymous]

Her eyes reveal her age and she’s too vain to accept that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think she is crazy and why do you care if she wears sunglasses. A woman of her success and talent could care less about what you think. I adore her.
I also adore Iris Apfel.
Find someone boring to snub.

op - i am in no doubt that she does not care what I think. At no point was this post predicated on the idea that she cares what I think.
why do i care? why does anyone discuss anything?

You’re too right.

Also I can probably think of several things Wintour has done wrong. American Vogue became increasingly dull over her tenure, and I’m not talking about the same slide away from print most magazines suffered, I’m talking about an actual slide in the content. I think it was getting boring and simplistic and really White. God I miss the old print media.

Her bullying people about their weight was just ick too. I don’t care for Oprah at all but denying her the cover till she lost a certain amount of weight is just gross.

[Anonymous]

She is very vain. And it's just her trademark. Why stop now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think she is crazy and why do you care if she wears sunglasses. A woman of her success and talent could care less about what you think. I adore her.
I also adore Iris Apfel.
Find someone boring to snub.

I agree with this. Even though I also agree American Vogue got stale and boring under her leadership. I still greatly admire the career she built for herself, and I find her personal style iconic. It's not aspirational-- the whole point is that it's very her and no one else. The bob, the sunglasses, the Chanel obsession. There are a handful of people you could draw a recognizable portrait of in like three pem strokes, and she's one. That's a style success.

I also think the sunglasses are a power move. She doesn't always wear them indoors (in fact she mostly does not) but when she does, it means people don't know where she's looking and can't read her facial expression. Since so much often hinges on her response to a collection or look, I think this is pure power play. Would I want to work for her? No way. Is that level of authority and control inspiring for a woman? Yes, to me.

[Anonymous]

She has an eye condition and is extremely sensitive to light. I read about it in her unauthorized biography by Jerry Oppenheimer. If I recall correctly from that book, she is legally blind and her father actually went totally blind, and her father’s condition makes her constantly worry about her eyes.

[Anonymous]

I don’t get how you didn’t Google and immediately find like 20 articles talking about her eye problems, surgeries, father going blind, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think she is crazy and why do you care if she wears sunglasses. A woman of her success and talent could care less about what you think. I adore her.
I also adore Iris Apfel.
Find someone boring to snub.

op - i am in no doubt that she does not care what I think. At no point was this post predicated on the idea that she cares what I think.
why do i care? why does anyone discuss anything?

You’re too right.

Also I can probably think of several things Wintour has done wrong. American Vogue became increasingly dull over her tenure, and I’m not talking about the same slide away from print most magazines suffered, I’m talking about an actual slide in the content. I think it was getting boring and simplistic and really White. God I miss the old print media.

Her bullying people about their weight was just ick too. I don’t care for Oprah at all but denying her the cover till she lost a certain amount of weight is just gross.

So true.

I don't know who is who anymore, but has she eliminated the people with strong POVs around here and just has a staff of sycophants who don't even try to share interesting things? I used to look forward to a new Vogue even though I'm not a consumer of the things it featured. Even when I wasn't subscribing, I'd buy that September issue and hide myself away to go through it.

This obit of Andre Talley almost makes me think the Vogue I loved was due to his work.