Amy Odell’s biography of the Vogue editor is an enjoyable frolic through the nosebleed section of the fashion industry.
Australia since its launch in 1959, befriending two of them, working for two and being dealt a near fatal withering glance by one, for accidentally knocking her not-stiff-enough drink at a party. Onedescribed me as part of one editor’s “obligatory retinue of gay handbags,” but fortunately, my status as an accessory changed.
Some of these relationships lasted years, others mere hours, but all of these women were more engaging, more collaborative and more human than the USby Amy Odell. And this includes the spectacularly haughty founder ofThe glasses stay on: US Vogue editor Anna Wintour attends the Burberry show during London Fashion Week 2017.With her signature bob and sunglasses, Wintour has forged the image of a Chanel-coated android, with limited emotions and absolute power in the world of fashion.
Through more than 250 interviews, with people as diverse as designer Tom Ford and tennis champion Serena Williams, Odell attempts to find the flesh and blood beneath the polished exterior of the 72-year-old editor, but fails to reveal more than the book’s striking cover.
Anna Wintour and André Leon Talley attend the presentation of the Oscar de la Renta fall 2007 collection.
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