208 Quotes by Anna Wintour

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    She had no time for anything humdrum, banal, or mundane – to the extent that the task of cleaning her desk at every night had to be done with a bottle of Perrier water and Chanel No. 5.

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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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    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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    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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    The young people we hire today at Conde Nast are fearless polymaths.

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    'Vogue' has a history of picking up on various TV shows that reflect a moment in popular culture, whether it's putting Lena Dunham on the cover or Sarah Jessica Parker.

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