Anna Winour is one of the renowned names of fashion industry. By profession, she is a magazine editor and a fashion journalist who has been serving American Vogue as its Chief Editor since 1988. She has also been serving the publication house Conde Nast as its artistic director since 2013. Anna’s astounding personality has earned her a nickname in fashion world as ‘Nuclear Wintour’. Her pageboy bob haircut is what makes her stand out in the crowd. The fashion editor was born on 3rd November, 1949 in London, England.
Anna Wintour was born as a daughter of late Charles Wintour and his wife, late Eleanor Trego Baker. Charles Wintour was the editor of British newspaper, Evening Standard who had played an inspirational role in Anna’s life. When Anna was of 15, she dated an English novelist Piers Paul Read who was at the time 9 years senior to her. Later she dated writer Richard Neville who is 8 years senior to her. She is also reported to have dated Bob Marley and other personalities like Jon Bradshaw and Michael Esteban. Anna was married to David Shaffer in 1984. David Shaffer is a professor at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and is serving the New York Presbyterian Hospital as pediatric psychiatric chief. They remained married until 1999. Within this period of time, she gave birth to two children from David. Their first child was born in 1987, a son Charles who is also known as Charlie. In 1989, they welcomed their second child, a daughter Katherine who is widely known as Bee. It was highly claimed that her affair with J. Shelby Bryan caused her divorce with her former husband David. Later, in 2004, Anna got married to Bryan. They are living together since then and they share no children.
Anna studied at the North London Collegiate School where she was renowned for her rebellious activities. She was influenced by fashion idols from an early age which led her to wear short skirts at the college. When she was of 14, she began styling her hair in pageboy bob haircut. Since then, she has always been wearing her hair in that style. By the age of 15, she began working at a fashion store Biba boutique. Her interest in fashion was gradually developing because of which she left the college before she received her graduation degree. Through her former boyfriend Richard Neville she was able to work in magazine production company Oz. In 1970, Harper’s Bazaar UK and Queen merged to form a new magazine Harper’s & Queen. The same year, she was hired as the editorial assistant for the magazine which is how she launched her career as a fashion journalist. In 1975, she moved to New York and started working at the Harper’s Bazaar as the junior fashion editor. She worked there for 9 months and left as she was fired by the editor Tony Mazzola. She took a few months break from her career and returned to work for women’s adult magazine Viva. In 1981, she started working at the New York magazine as its fashion editor. Around 1983, she got a job at Conde Nast, the publishing company of Vogue magazine as its creative director. She became the chief editor of British Vogue in 1985 which brought about many changes in the magazine. During her reign, she fired many workers and she was started to be called Nuclear Wintour for her arrogant attitude. In 1987, she became the editor of House & Garden. She made many changes in this magazine as well with an intension of improving the condition of the magazine but the situation was conversed. After working there for about 10 months, she got her dream job to be an editor of Vogue. She made many drastic changes while she worked at the Vogue. At present, she earns $2 million every year and has net worth of $35 million.
She is a punctual woman who is strict about her time. Playing tennis every morning is part of her time table. After playing tennis, she spends some time in maintaining her signature hairstyle and makeup. She shows keen interest in politics as well.
Anna Wintour is a multi-millionaire fashion editor. Her dynamic personality has helped her in earning huge fame and success. She brought many changes in magazines such as Vogue, House & Garden, etc during her reign. She is well known for her arrogant attitude and is believed to be the inspiration behind the novel The Devil Wears Prada.