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I don't think of myself as a powerful person.

Anna Wintour

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Anna Wintour
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 3
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[The democratization of luxury] means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better.
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I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.
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I saw young women in the street dressing in a way that I thought was influencing the designers. Fashion was being influenced by all sorts of different people, and culture and also across the street. So I saw more as a trickle up, than a trickle down influence. When I came to Vogue, that's what I wanted it to reflect.
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It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.
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Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion.
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I'd just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little houses.
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I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She's interested in business and money.
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There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous.
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Some people have the Bible. I have Vogue.
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The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true.
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I'm an ice queen, I'm the Sun King, I'm an alien fleeing from District 9 and I'm a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space.
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If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in the New York Times.
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Go get a job. Whether it’s working as a designer or working in a restaurant and then doing your own thing in your own time, it’s a reality of life. In the end it’s going to be helpful to you and so many others.
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If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better.
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I'm very good at delegating - people work much better when they have a real sense of responsibility. But at the same time, I don't like surprises. I don't pore over every shoot, but I do like to be aware at all times of what's going on.
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Models today, she explained, don't understand that to be successful you have to have a personality, intelligence, and issues that you support, and Gisele embodies these qualities.
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Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can’t really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.
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I don’t like people who are late.
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It is a family it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.
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