Anna Wintour Quotes

November 3, 1949

Anna Wintour (born 3 November 1949) has been editor-in-chief of the U.S. edition of Vogue since 1988. She is widely believed to be the inspiration for the Miranda Priestly character in the novel and film The Devil Wears Prada.

You either know fashion or you don't.

Reported by childhood friend Vivienne Lasky, quoted by biographer Jerry Oppenheimer in Front Row: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue's Editor In Chief, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2005, ISBN 0-3123-231-07, p. 51 .

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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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— Reported, quoted by Emma Brockes; May 27, 2006; "What lies beneath"; The Guardian; retrieved March 23, 2007.

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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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— Reported, quoted by Dana Thomas in Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Luster, The Penguin Press, New York, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59420-129-5

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Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.

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— In R.J. Cutler's 2009 documentary film The September Issue.

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