Kawade Shobo Shinsha
A complete look at the queen who reigns in the fashion and media world, “ANNA Biography of Anna Wintour,” will be released on December 4th.
How will she continue to dominate global trends?
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Kawade Shobo Shinsha Co., Ltd. (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo/Representative Director: Yu Onodera) has been the editor-in-chief of American Vogue for over 30 years, and is a unique entity with absolute influence in the fashion and media worlds. , we will publish “ANNA Biography of Anna Wintour” on December 4, 2023, which depicts the complete story of Anna Wintour.
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People like to fit people into clichés.
–Anna Wintour (New York, 2018.10.18)
This book is a critical biography of Anna Wintour that author Amy O’Dell spent three years writing based on interviews with more than 250 people and friends, as well as a huge amount of related materials such as related books, magazines, and letters. This is truly the definitive edition.
■Empress of Beauty Anna Wintour
For Condé Nast, a huge media company that publishes magazines such as The New Yorker, GQ, and many others, as well as websites such as Pitchfork and Wired, which have huge support around the world, fashion has become the cornerstone of its glorious history. Lifestyle magazine Vogue is something special.
Anna Wintour, known for her trademark bob hair and sunglasses, has served as the editor-in-chief of the American version of Vogue for over 30 years since 1988, and has always attracted public attention for the magazine’s clear reflection of her personal tastes and sense of the times. In addition to attracting a lot of attention, the magazine achieved great success in terms of circulation, advertising revenue, and other business aspects. Also, since 1995, Anna has been involved in the Met Gala, a charity event held every May at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and due to its innovative planning and overwhelming glamor, celebrities from all over the world aspire to participate. He is said to be the person who made the biggest contribution to turning it into a major event in the fashion world and raising a huge amount of funds.
As a result, Vogue’s brand value has expanded to its maximum, and Anna now defines not only fashion trends but also the beauty standards of the times, telling us what to buy, how to dress, and who to pay attention to. He has become a pointer to millions of people. In December 2020, Anna Wintour was appointed chief content officer at Condé Nast, which publishes Vogue, and has risen to the position of supervising almost all magazines published by the company.
■Definitive edition “ANNA Anna Wintour biography”
However, the path that Anna Wintour and Vogue have taken has not been smooth. During that time, the global financial crisis that shook society, the rise of digital, the establishment of the Trump administration and the rise of the right wing, LGBTQ, the
transformation of Generation Z, the #MeToo movement, Black Lives Matter, and the coronavirus pandemic… The changing society and new trends in the world all hindered her ambitions and career. It is also true that Vogue’s, and even Anna’s, insufficiently updated sense and direction regarding lookism and racial discrimination have been repeatedly denounced and criticized by new values and new
generations. .
Interviews for this book include Vogue staff such as Grace Coddington, who served as creative director under Anna for 25 years, and Andre Leon Talli, who also worked for Anna for many years, top designer Tom Ford, and women’s tennis. More than 250 people, including celebrities such as Serena Williams, the queen of the world, participated, and the event included letters exchanged with Hillary Clinton and publicists at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as letters from her father Charles Winter held in the New York Public Library. Numerous matters explained in detail based on a huge amount of data. The image of Anna that emerges from this story is completely different from the one-dimensional mass image of her as cruel and cold-hearted, and is that of a person who strives to pursue the most beautiful thing in the world, and who suffers.
In 1989, Madonna, who was at the center of controversy due to the radical expression of her new song, was chosen to appear on the cover of the magazine.The reason for choosing her to appear on the cover was because a man who happened to be sitting next to her on a plane told her that Vogue was the best magazine that would never publish Madonna. The anecdote is that Anna took the praise as a challenge. In June 2006, she attended a special screening of the movie “The Devil Wears Prada,” for which she is said to be a model, wearing “Prada” with her daughter Bee, and after the movie, her daughter said, “You look just like mom.” There are also many testimonies that show Anna’s friendly and innocent personality, such as anecdotes.
Anna Wintour politely declined the interview until the end, but the public relations department of Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, introduced her to the contact information of Anna’s editorial staff and various friends, so to speak. This book can be said to have been endorsed by Anna herself. Through Anna Wintour, you can learn about not only the rise of glamorous fashion and changes in aesthetic sensibilities, but also the role of the media, how you think in line with the times, and the importance of continuing to question the state of society. This is a one-of-a-kind book
Original annotation is published on the web page
The sources and annotations of the vast amount of material, including interviews with over 250 people, past interviews with Anna herself, related books, magazines, etc., can be found on the following page (53 pages of main text).
https://www.kawade.co.jp/ANNA_chu_CC2022.pdf
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“ANNA Anna Wintour biography” front page
【table of contents】
introduction
1 Origins
2. Take off your uniform Beyond School Uniform
3 Fired and Hired
4. Anna Wintour, Fashion Assistant
5. A New Start in New York City
6. “Viva” and life experience “Viva la Vida”
7. A Savvy Move
8. The road to “Vogue” In Vogue
9 Second Best Post
10 A Tale of Two Vogues
11 House & Garment
12 Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief
13 Calculated Risk
14 “In” versus “Out”
15 First Assistant, Second Assistant
16 A New Project, an old friend
17 Follow the Money
18 Divorce The Divorce
19 Dot.Com
20 A New Alliance
21 Mutual Benefit
22 Big Vogue
23 The Crash
24 Politics and Pain
25 Anna Wintour, Artistic Director
26 Changes
27 The Met Gala
Epilogue: The Pandemic
[Author/translator biography]
Amy Odell Amy Odell
Fashion and culture journalist. He has contributed to New York magazine, The Economist’s 1843 magazine, Time magazine, Cosmopolitan magazine, and many other publications. He is the author of “Tales from the Back Row,” and this is his first critical biography. She lives in Westchester, New York with her husband and two children. Eri Sato Eri Sato
English/French translator. Graduated from the Department of French, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Translated books include “FASHION: A Complete History of World Clothing” edited by Marnie Fogg, “50 Latest World Situation Lectures” by Pascal Boniface, and co-translated with Sven Beckert “Empire of Cotton: How Global Capitalism Was Born” (with Shinobu Onizawa). (co-translation).
[Bibliographic information]
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Book title: ANNA Anna Wintour biography
Author: Amy Odell, translated by Eri Sato
Specifications: 46 format / hardcover / 536 pages
Release date: December 4, 2023
Regular price: 3,960 yen (3,600 yen)
ISBN: 978-4-309-20893-0
https://www.kawade.co.jp/np/isbn/9784309208930/