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

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I wish I had a hairstyle that never needed updating like her bangs and Bob.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish I had a hairstyle that never needed updating like her bangs and Bob.

Bobs never go out of style

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

But that's the entire NY fashion industry. Turtles all the way down.

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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.

Yeah, not a huge Wintour fan, but I think the sunglasses are crazy like a fox. I look so much better in sunglasses -- whenever we get vacation pictures, I look great because they hide the undereye circles that are so aging and the wrinkles. To develop it as your signature look when you are still relatively young is genius. Plus the total power play of denying people the ability to look you in the eyes -- so passively-aggressively dismissive. Boss.

If PP is right that she's legally blind, that's almost the definition of irony. A blind person defining the asthetic look controlling a country for decades. I'm exxagerating her power for effect of the irony, but you get it -- that's like emporer with no clothes next-level funny.

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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.

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.

Yeah, not a huge Wintour fan, but I think the sunglasses are crazy like a fox. I look so much better in sunglasses -- whenever we get vacation pictures, I look great because they hide the undereye circles that are so aging and the wrinkles. To develop it as your signature look when you are still relatively young is genius. Plus the total power play of denying people the ability to look you in the eyes -- so passively-aggressively dismissive. Boss.

If PP is right that she's legally blind, that's almost the definition of irony. A blind person defining the asthetic look controlling a country for decades. I'm exxagerating her power for effect of the irony, but you get it -- that's like emporer with no clothes next-level funny.

She can do it with her eyes closed.