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"I like people who represent the best of what they do."
"We are here to work. And in the end, we are drawn together by our passion for the magazine."
"It is an armor, to intimidate."
"Sunglasses.. have become armor."
"Some people cant cope with that. We need to be loved."
"You made yourself the personification of Vogue."
"Anna dropped out of high school at age 16."
"Chilly Charlie."
"People respond well to someone who is sure of what they want."
"... where she acts as cheerleader, power broker and consultant."
"What bores you?"
"Mediocrity."
"She has to keep a cold image to keep things going. Its not that easy."
"She has an eye. To have an eye is key."
_Bernard Arnault
"We can advise, but we can't dictate. Obviously, in the end, those gentlemen are very capable of making up their own minds."
"But they have a remarkable habit of going along with your ideas."
"Well, we can only point them in that direction."
Quitting soon?
"Not at all, this is a really interesting time to be in this position. I think in a way, it would be irresponsible, not to put my best foot forward and lead us into a different time."
From Gawker,
Vogue's Anna Wintour was profiled on 60 Minutes tonight, a piece in which she expressed reluctance to glam down during tough times, defended her bitchiness, and basically said she's in it for the free clothes.
While Morley Safer's profile was, in its totality, quite interesting, as its vexing and somewhat mystery-shrouded subject tends to be, what may be even more interesting is what the profile made didn't mention:
- Wintour's contract with Vogue is set to expire soon and that she and Conde Nast have a long history of using the media to gain advantages during tough contract negotiations.
- Longstanding rumors of S.I. Newhouse's desire to replace Wintour with French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld.
- The overall decline in financial health over at Conde Nast, which recently reported a 26% drop in ad pages in its first quarter and shuttered Portfolio, its perpetually struggling $100 million business magazine.
But to her credit, Wintour did look like 200,000 bucks.
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