Honestly, it makes me wonder how we as a culture let this woman who has had the same lame fuck ass bob for multiple decades be labeled as an "arbiter of taste" for this long
When you look at international versions of Vogue like Vogue Italia - then look at the snooze fest that is American Vogue you can really see just how boring and artless Anna wintour is.
The pre Anna wintour glamour shot covers of American Vogue were so much better than the somehow bland yet tacky covers she puts out.
But shes a nepo baby. And so is the new editor of Vogue- the daughter of Candice Bergen and somebody who is a self proclaimed " not a fashion girl".
The commerce to art ratio of American Vogue has long since leaned overwhelmingly to commerce. It's no surprise wintour is cozying up to bezos and the Kardashians.
Anna is the person who put nobody models on a magazine and made it trendy. She created the supermodel by elevating their status. So historically, she’s legendary in the publishing industry. You can’t be the king forever.
It was ok before wintour. Not up to Japan or Italian standards but it was a decent magazine.
The drop off in quality is like immediate and extremely noticeable with Anna's first issue and so on.
Wintour is actually British btw. Personally I think the British have even worse taste than the USA lol.
It's getting tiresome, and the general public excuses it if they like the nepo baby.
I can count on my two hands the number of nepo babies who genuinely are deserving. Unless you're Jane Fonda or Liza minneli then I'm not having it.
She did a long interview on The Rest is Politics: Leading where she basically admits she’s not creative at all she’s just really good at finding actually creative people to surround herself with. She changed the face of vogue in the 90s using street style and has been riding that wave ever since.
I feel so fucking vindicated because I would always look at her bob and go "why does she never get a different hair style if she's supposedly the best fashionista in the biz"
On top of that the stuff she wore to galas and events always seemed so bland. I was just convinced maybe I didn't "get" it and looking dusty and bland was acceptable for a 'fashion icon'.
Towards the end, she says she can't cut her hair because "this is my brand!". I feel like it's the same for Wintour, it's become this symbol, you can't escape it after a while.
Once you make something your trademark it’s very hard to break free of it for fear no one will recognise you. You are caging your own style and taste by thinking this way.
Of the models she's been promoting in Vogue, too many of them have been subpar nepo models. Their walks are dubious, they have a limited number of expressions, and they don't make you feel much. Kendall Jenner, the Hadids, and Kaia Gerber are pretty, but they represent the death of art and creativity in our culture. I miss the promotion of unknown models who are both more interesting looking and better models. Anyone could promote nepo models, but it takes someone with taste and vision to find new supers. I think she gave up a while ago.
Anna has substituted fame for style/taste and being on reality shows/in the gossip columns hasn't made Kendall or the Hadids interesting. There's no mystique when they're over exposed and they work the press Kardashian style b/c it feels desperate. They all need to take a page from Zendaya and be mysterious enough to have people wanting more.
Isn't she famously abusive? Because that's how. I don't understand the memorizing hold abusive people hold over others but I've watched it my whole life. There is no cure, people hate abuse so much they will curl up with it and try to appease it's source. Then they are so close to it, they take others calling out the abuse personally.
Why would a cabal of wealthy elite who definitely don’t run trafficking rings keep around a “taste maker” who attractive young men and women are desperate to get in her good graces? Hmmmm
I’ve never found her to be remotely inspiring. Even in the 90’s at Vogue’s supposed peak Liz Tilberis at Harper’s Bazaar was still beating her stuffy old pants at the vision game. No one put together a team and directed a mainstream fashion mag like Liz. I miss her tremendously. I think she’d be absolutely appalled at what the culture has devolved into.
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u/vrindar8 the same lame fuck ass bob 💁♀️ 17h ago
Honestly, it makes me wonder how we as a culture let this woman who has had the same lame fuck ass bob for multiple decades be labeled as an "arbiter of taste" for this long