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    The Young Life of Anna Wintour: An Index

    After reading her Anna Wintour's review of London nightclubs, we wanted to know more about her Gossip Girl younger years as a club-hopping high school hipster. Thanks to Jerry Oppenheimer's book Front Row we compiled this index

    Here is a selective index of the early chapters of the biography, which include her early experiences working, clubbing, dating, and being obsessed with fashion (and Laurence Olivier).

    Annabel's nightclub, p 37

    Biba
    -fabulous boutique, p42
    -working a "holiday job," p43-44

    bob, p40
    -hiding behind it, p52

    Bobroff, Steve, fashion photographer
    -living with Anna, p56-57
    -their house like Blow-Up, p58
    -uses Anna as model, p58
    -won't discuss their relationship, p58

    club scene
    -"At fifteen or sixteen Anna had this downtown London life," p38

    Dempster, Nigel, gossip hack, p37
    -dating Anna, p38-39
    -says breasts "large and "quite delectable" p39
    -hides in the closet from Anna's Father p40
    -ambition, p40-41

    Dolly's nightclub, p38

    drugs -doesn't do them p37
    -"hideously healthy" p38

    fashion

    -leads Anna to magazines, "not an interest in magazines," p54

    fashion school-sets on fire during science experiment, drops out, p51

    fur-wearing it when unfashionable, p44

    Gitterman, Peter-boyfriend, p52

    Harper's Bazaar-bluffs her way through interview, p64
    -excels at her job, p65-66
    -nicknamed "bacon slicer," p66
    -is "bitchy and sharply critical" to other editors, p66
    -describes things she doesn't like as "rubbish," p67

    Harrod's-enters training program, works in "groovy teen" boutique, p51
    -quits, p53

    Lasky, Vivenne-best friend, p46-47
    -attends Radcliffe, p51
    -calls Anna "bossy," p56

    London Playboy Club-attends opening, p39

    Marley, Bob-introduced by Jon Bradshaw, p106
    -goes backstage and "disappears for a week," p107
    -said she didn't have affair, p107

    McGowan, Cathy-fashion inspiration, p37, 38, 43

    Neville, Richard, boyfriend
    -goodlooking underground journalist, p58-59
    -tells Anna he already has a girlfriend, she's OK with that, p60

    North London Collegiate
    -hates the uniform, p38
    -leaves/gets thrown out for wearing a miniskirt, p47-48

    Olivier, Laurence-crush on and stalking, p38

    Oxford-expected to attend, p48

    Quant, Mary
    -fashion inspiration, p37-38
    -introduced by Peter Gitterman, p52

    Redbook-fiction editor, p54

    weight-being skinny, p40
    -being "quite chubby," p 44

    Wintour, Charles, father
    -hating her boyfriend, p39
    -getting her a job at Biba, p42
    -hating fashion, p43
    -says Anna has "many boyfriends," p52
    -says Anna "wondered for two hours what to wear to a demonstration, p53
    -Anna never wants to work for him, p57
    -gets her a job at Harper's Bazaar, p63

    Wintour, Nonnie, mother
    -bad dresser, p45
    -loved her social work clients more than children, p46
    -brings Anna to New York, p55
    -"deadness" between her and husband, p61

    Wintour, Nora, sister
    -plain compared to Anna, p45
    -thinks Anna is a "bimbo" p 49


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