THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE ANNA WINTOUR AND THE MAKING OF VOGUE : CHRISTINE TRZYNA FILM REVIEW

This film was fascinating and fun.

OK, so we all know the film "THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA" was supposed to be about Anna Wintour (the DEVIL) famous, powerful fashion editor of Vogue and about the same subject, the production of the most influential fashion magazine in the world.

Is Anna really a bitch or does she maybe have to be?

Does anyone have to be a bitch? 

Woa! Don't want to get too philosophical in this moment!  Check in with the feminist impulse to never ever call any woman a bitch!

As I watched this video I thought about how busy Wintour is and how so many people - fashion designers - are pressing upon her trying to gain her approval so that their product can be featured in the magazine.  I would probably resist.  Wear sun glasses.  Be careful to remain professional.
 

The clips of famous fashion designers and fashion shows is exciting - their workrooms - the runway-

All of it is ART!

C 2013 Christine Trzyna  All Rights Reserved

FRONT ROW - ANNA WINTOUR: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue's Editor in Chief by JERRY OPPENHEIMER

front row
Anna Wintour: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue's Editor in Chief
by Jerry Oppenheimer C 2005
St Martin's Press

EXCERPT


pages 268-269: On what Anna (Nuclear Wintour) did at House and Garden circa 1987 upon becoming editor...

..."Other editors ran out to get new, hipper looking wardrobes in the hopes of placating Anna and making her think they had a youthful image and attitude - and save their jobs, even if their hair was turning a bit gray. "Everyone had to shorten their skirts," recalls one editor.

A few who didn't pass muster, but whom Conde Nast wanted to keep around because (Alex) Liberman liked them, were sent to the fourteenth floor, known in the parlance of Conde Nast as "the elephants graveyard," where they would serve out their time and retire, some with full pay and medical benefits.

Veteran staffers who weren't fired were kept around because Anna didn't know the shelter business like she knew the fashion business, and she needed experienced editors and writers who had covered that scene for years for House and Garden to take her to the showrooms and introduce her to the industry. They were treated shabbily before finally getting the boot..."