Vogue’s Anna Wintour reveals why she always wears sunglasses – even indoors

Anna Wintour’s spiky repute famously impressed the 2006 The Satan Wears Prada, which opened as a musical in London’s West Finish final weekend, however the Vogue Editor-in-Chief has begged to vary that she’s frosty with extra lowly workers.

Chatting with BBC Breakfast’s Tradition and Media editor Katie Razzall, the 75-year-old denied that staff are too frightened to strategy her. 

Wintour, who’s in London to advertise a brand new immersive exhibition, VOGUE: Inventing the Runway, instructed the journalist when requested if individuals are petrified of her: ‘I hope not.’

She added that loads of individuals flip her down too, saying the concept that ‘no-one says no to Anna Wintour’ is an trade fantasy.

The veteran editor instructed Razzell: ‘That’s completely unfaithful. They typically say no, however that’s a great factor. No is an excellent phrase’. 

Wintour was additionally requested about her trademark look, which has been unchanged for many years and options her razor-sharp bob and ever-present sun shades.

Whereas the style icon would not be drawn on her total look, saying she most well-liked to consider creativity solely by way of her job, a persistent Razzell did get a solution on the glasses. 

Wintour responded: ‘They assist me see and so they assist me not see. They assist me be seen and never be seen. They’re a prop, I’d say.’ 

Chatting with BBC Breakfast’s Tradition and Media editor, Katie Razzall, to advertise a brand new immersive exhibition in London on Vogue, Wintour mentioned she makes use of the glasses as a ‘prop’ Pictured: Wintour at Marc Jacobs’ AW24 present in New York in July

Frosty, moi? Wintour additionally answered Razzall’s query on her repute for being troublesome to strategy

This week, Wintour’s shut pal Elton John confirmed he is now misplaced his eyesight whereas addressing friends at London’s Dominion Theatre as he appeared alongside the Vogue boss for the crimson carpet launch of The Satan Wears Prada: The Musical.

Requested whether or not she has any plans to retire or doubtlessly maintain going into her ninth decade, Wintour revealed she’s not planning on quitting the style bible anytime quickly, saying she solely thinks of ‘at present, not tomorrow’. 

The brand new Vogue exhibition, which opened at Lightroom within the capital final month, is an immersive exhibition exploring the historical past of the style runway present. 

It comes after the British editor mirrored on her early profession on the US trend bible in Disney+’s documentary sequence In Vogue: The 90s, launched in September.

Earlier than she moved to Vogue in 1981, Anna had beforehand labored at Harpers & Queen in London and Harper’s Bazaar in America. 

Forty years on, she’s the very first thing many individuals consider when the phrase Vogue is talked about.  

Within the programme, Wintour says of her promotion to the pinnacle of Vogue: ‘Conde Nast [appointed me] as a result of it was time for change.

‘Below the earlier management, each cowl of Vogue seemed all the identical […] generally you simply must tear every part up and begin over.’

The style icon laughed when requested if individuals are too scared to say ‘no’ to her 

New: VOGUE: Inventing the Runway is at Lightroom in London till April 2025, after opening final month

Pictured: Anna Wintour with the late Karl Largerfeld in New York in 1990

Admitting that she had ‘no plan’, Wintour mentioned she set about discovering a group of ‘brilliantly inventive individuals’ to work with as she opened up about her profession on the trend bible.

Whereas on board a flight from London to New York in 1989, Anna says she obtained speaking to a ‘very conservative gentleman’, who praised the journal for earlier points that includes Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly.

After he joked that Madonna would by no means seem on their entrance web page, the editor mentioned she had a ‘lightbulb’ second and have become set on that includes the ‘controversial’ pop star.

Final weekend, The Satan Wears Prada Musical, which relies on the 2006 comedy starring Meryl Streep, noticed a throng of A-listers hit the crimson carpet together with Wintour herself, Elizabeth Hurley and Elton John. 

Sir Elton John and Wintour attending The Satan Wears Prada Musical’ charity gala evening on December 1st

Followers of the hit movie The Satan Wears Prada have lengthy assumed that Meryl Streep’s trend editor character Miranda Priestly was based mostly on Wintour, who within the musical is performed by Vanessa Williams, 61.

Nevertheless again in 2019 co-star Emily Blunt mentioned the Oscar winner didn’t use the Vogue editor as inspiration and instructed the NPR podcast: ‘Meryl did not really base it on Anna Wintour. Nicely, she instructed Anna that. She based mostly it on two males in Hollywood that she knew – who will stay anonymous, however I do know who they’re. That is all.’

The movie, which was based mostly on Lauren Weisberger’s e book of the identical title, was mentioned to be loosely based mostly on the creator’s actual experiences of working at shiny trend journal.

The movie took over £250 million on the field workplace, incomes Meryl Streep an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of the glacial trend journal editor, with rumours of a sequel within the works.

VOGUE: Inventing the Runway is at Lightroom in London till April 2025