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Wintour Colleagues Love Mean Drawing Of Her "Observer owner Jared Kushner bought the original artwork from the illustrator, Victor Juhasz, for Vogue editor at large [André Leon Talley]. At least seven people placed serious bids — two of which were from within Condé Nast." Talley paid several thousand dollars for the artwork. [WWD]

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Did Clapton Spurn Wintour? "During the planning for the [Costume Institute Gala], when honoree Giorgio Armani suggested Eric Clapton as the entertainment, [Vogue editor Anna] Wintour immediately said no. 'It made you think maybe he once rejected her,' said a source. Instead, the hirsute cast from the revival of Hair performed tunes which had nothing to do with the evening's 'superhero' theme." [Post]

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fashion

Anna Wintour's "Curious" Dress At The Big Ball

All of the important pretty people got dressed up for the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala, which was themed "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy." Vogue editor Anna Wintour wore the Karl Lagerfeld Chanel dress on the left. Of this creation, Australia's Age said Wintour "got it horribly wrong;" one blogger said it was "one of a kind... which is good because we don't need two of those;" and the diplomatic Times said it "had curiously curling crescents attached at the hips and the shoulders, giving Ms. Wintour... the fuller-bodied appearance of Botticelli’s Venus on her clamshell." Ah, "curious," not the highest of compliments. Anna could use a break, what with the LeBron James King Kong cover, the Rodarte weight thing, getting dissed by European fashionistas, etc. etc. Sad, pitiable Anna. Laugh (at a few more media celebrities' outfits, starting with Katie Holmes, pictured right) through tears (for sad monster Wintour) after the jump. More »

6:29 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By Ryan Tate
11,302 views, 42 comments

Latest by HiredGoons: Sofia Coppola's dress looks like a reject from Isabella Rossellini's wardrobe in 'Death Becomes Her.' more »

Vogue Intern Makes $2 Million Per Year "Star New York Ranger and man-about-town Sean Avery is out to build up his résumé this summer — by interning at Vogue... He wrote a letter to Anna Wintour expressing his desire to work there... Avery likely will work with a variety of editors, including European editor at large Hamish Bowles. There's also talk of him working at Men's Vogue. And the spokesman claimed that, like most interns, the 28-year-old Avery will be expected to do traditional assistantlike tasks." [WWD]

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Miss Manners' Lesson For Anna Wintour

The rich and famous old ladies of the website WowOWow were talking about privacy and stalkers, and the book The Devil Wears Prada came up as a cautionary tale: Beware your office servants! Devil, of course, was written by a former assistant to Vogue editor Anna Wintour and was believed to be a lightly fictionalized portrayal of Wintour. WowOWow's Judith Martin, aka Miss Maners, described the book as "a huge argument for separating your business life from your personal life. Your personal assistant — so-called personal — should not be doing things in your private life and therefore she wouldn’t be privy, or he wouldn’t be privy to it." Oh, excellent: This is exactly the sort of catty backbiting we had hoped for from WowOWow. A lengthier exchange: More »

7:58 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Ryan Tate
3,364 views, 26 comments

Latest by TallulahSkankhead: @Steverino: And her fiction is surprisingly bawdy, too. more »

vogue's king kong cover

Anna Wintour, Pitiable Monster

Today's Observer contains a smart, if depressing, package of stories on the fading glories of the magazine industry, but the weekly saved its cruelest cut for the front page, where appeared the parody at left of Vogue's infamous LeBron James cover (click for larger version). The message: if anyone deserves to be compared to a crazed monster it is the notoriously demanding Wintour, with her ostensible boss Si Newhouse along for the ride. The illustration, by Victor Juhasz, capped a rough few months for Wintour, who was publicly dissed by fashion's priesthood during a recent trip to Europe, then faced uproar over her recent weight-loss outreach to two female designers and is now grappling with fallout from the James cover. After the jump, a large version of the parody cover, and the object of said parody. More »

5:22 AM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Ryan Tate
8,893 views, 34 comments

Latest by slimceagirl: @TheRealRedDuke: I have a feeling this might be the case here, too. But no, I never saw the movie. It never interested me. Well, that's why I was asking, anyway. Nobody else answered, so I'll take my clues from you and more »

vogue's kong cover

Time For Leibovitz To Confess

I had thought this was a fuss about nothing. But when you look at the images side-by-side, it's pretty obvious that Vogue's latest cover featuring LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen is indeed a sly homage by Annie Leibovitz to King Kong. In fact, the references by photographer Annie Leibowitz to one image in particular, identified earlier this week by a tipster to Jezebel, are unmistakeable. This First World War army recruitment poster—urging loyal Americans to destroy a "mad brute"—features a Kong-like gorilla with a right arm holding a weapon and a left gripping a virginal white beauty. It's much like the position basketball star LeBron assumes on the Vogue cover. More »

12:02 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Nick Denton
23,924 views, 127 comments

Latest by TheRealRedDuke: Oh, shit. I thought I WAS on Jezebel. My mistike. (But still: giant black dude = an old german ape? Um, okay.) more »

race relations

Black People Smile Like This

When Vogue put LeBron James on the cover it was innovative: a black man on the cover of a magazine aimed at rich, white women? Anna Wintour's still got it. But now, the fallout. Didn't LeBron James sort of look like King-Kong? And why does that pretty white girl looked so scared? Oh no, racial stereotypes being reinforced on the cover of Vogue, a place normally dedicated to reinforcing an unattainable ideal of beauty. And it gets worse: James's mouth was agape, just like Jennifer Hudson's was on the March cover. Controversy! More »

12:15 PM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By rebecca
6,589 views, 42 comments

Latest by IamnotStarJones: what no O magazine covers? isn't she still a black people? more »

vogue

Anna Wintour Right, Designers Were Fatties, Says Fatties Expert

The Times today found a professor of eating disorders to back up Vogue editrix Anna Wintour, who last fall told the sisters behind fashion house Rodarte they should lose some weight. Wintour put them on a four-month training regimen that saw them drop a combined 50 pounds, the sisters (pictured at left, after/before) wrote up the whole experience for April Vogue and body-image outrage ensued at sister site Jezebel. Everyone needs to calm down, said University of North Carolina professor Cynthia Bulik: More »

4:46 AM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Ryan Tate
10,756 views, 25 comments

Latest by tialeesuh: Dieting turns you from jolly chunky girls into scary goth emo boys? more »

Pale, Thin, Entirely Lacking in Joyfulness Anna Wintour complains, in her editor's letter in the upcoming issue of Vogue, that the models at the New York runway shows are "pale and thin, entirely lacking in... joyfulness and charm." I thought that was the example the legendarily frosty fashion arbiter was herself setting.

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extrapolations

Vogue Subtly Endorses Barack Obama

Historic moment alert: The cover of the April issue of Vogue has a black man on it. Yes, not a white man or a black woman. We've seen that before, if infrequently. You know who else is a black man? Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton is a woman. And the only thing Vogue hates more than t-shirts that change color with heat is other women. I think I've proved my point. [via Fashionologie]

2:50 PM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By rebecca
2,968 views, 18 comments

vogue

Actually Reading 'Vogue'

Vogue's former art director Mehemet Femy Agha once told a contributor that "she's like a piano player in a whorehouse. She may be a very good piano player, but nobody goes there to hear music. Nobody buys Vogue to read good literature; they buy it to see the clothes." A fair point, but I don't really like whores or fashion. So I decided to read Vogue this month to see what the fuss is about. More »

3:11 PM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By rebecca
7,840 views, 50 comments

lists

Magazines That Will Publish Your List, Based On How Many Items Are In It

"I'll never write a listicle," promised exiting Gawker editor Choire Sicha, naming the article form that symbolizes mediocrity (unless you are the Constitution). And while everyone in media except Sicha remains willing to pass off lists as articles, not all listicles are equal. Here are the industry standards for number of items in a listicle. More »

11:59 PM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Nick Douglas
3,177 views, 7 comments

things we actually like

How I'd Sink American Vogue

Designer-artist Scott King made 12 fake Vogue covers. They're, like, part of an art exhibit by PS1 or something, subverting one media metanarrative or another. About half of them are glorious, particularly "635 poor people" and "I am God," both shown full-size below. More »

1:46 AM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Nick Douglas
3,632 views, 7 comments

only human

Anna Wintour At Debate Club

Vogue's editor is too jealous of her icy mystery to expose herself much in public. She gives few interviews, and shows up to fashion events shielded by a helmet of hair and dark sunglasses. That makes Wintour's appearance before the Oxford Union, a debate club which is a playground for future British politicians, all the more unusual. More »

10:52 AM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Nick Denton
5,026 views, 22 comments

Anna Wintour At Debate Club Any aspiring journalists at Oxford University? (Um, apart from all of you.) We're looking for a report on this evening's scheduled appearance by the helmet-haired Vogue editor at the Oxford Union, the ancient English university's debate club. Email. Wintour is the warm-up act for a British TV presenter who believes the world is controlled by a race of semi-reptilian humanoids. Coincidence, of course.

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fashion

Armani And His Tan Stand Up To Wintour And Her Superheroes

Evidence that bobbed, steely Vogue editor Anna Wintour is out of her gourd: She believes that John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama are all "superheroes." For being a P.O.W., or a woman, or a black, or whatever. Hey, okay. But one man in fashion is not standing for the whole environment of fear surrounding Wintour, which makes it impossible for anyone remotely connected with the industry to insult her. Giorgio Armani says: Who cares about that crazy lady? More »

1:12 PM on Wed Feb 20 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
1,960 views, 14 comments

Latest by iplaudius: Say what you will about Armani, most of it is beautiful and wearable—unlike most of the crap in Vogue photo shoots. more »

herogram

French Vogue Editor So Much Funner Than Stupid Anna Wintour

Carine Roitfeld, French Vogue's editor for the last seven years, is the cooler, slightly younger, doesn't-give-a-fuck version of uptight American Vogue editor Anna Wintour. And hey: nobody made a moviebook about how bitchy she is. Not only is Carine totes different, but her whole magazine is pretty much better. Everybody in the fashion industry knows this already, but she very Frenchily explains what's wrong with American fashion editors to New York mag. (Oh, and: contrary to popular belief, she does not weigh her female staffers, but it is true that she doesn't know how to use a computer).
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3:18 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Sheila
8,300 views, 56 comments

Latest by iplaudius: @midnightecho: (Ils ne savent rien ... ) more »