Dame Anna Wintour is widely regarded as one of the most powerful women in the fashion industry, with a reputation for defining trends and nurturing fresh talent.

She has been the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine for the past 30 years, and she was designated artistic director of Condé Nast Publications in 2013. Since 1995, Wintour has presided over the Met Gala, one of the most renowned events on the fashion calendar.

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The Queen of England named Wintour a Dame in 2017 for her contributions to media and fashion.

With her signature bob haircut and black sunglasses. Her demanding and inspirational nature has earned her the moniker “Nuclear Wintour.”

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Anna Wintour was born in Hampstead, London, to Charles Wintour, the editor of the Evening Standard, and Eleanor “Nonie” Trego Baker, the daughter of a Harvard Law School professor. Her parents divorced in 1979 after marrying in 1940.

As per Live Biography, Wintour attended the independent North London Collegiate School as a child, where she routinely defied the dress regulation by raising the hemlines of her skirts as per

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She started wearing her hair in a bob when she was 14 years old. She became interested in fashion after watching Cathy McGowan on ‘Ready Steady Go!’ and receiving copies of Seventeen from her grandmother in the United States.

“Growing up in London in the 1960s, you’d have had to have Irving Penn’s bag over your head not to notice something exceptional was going on in fashion.” Her stepmother is Audrey Slaughter, a magazine editor who launched publications such as Honey and Petticoat.

Her fashion journalism career began in two British magazines. She later relocated to the United States, where she worked at New York and House & Garden. Between 1985 to 1987, she was the editor of British Vogue in London. A year later, she took over the franchise’s magazine in New York, revitalising what many considered a dormant publication.

In 2014, she organised the fashion industry’s involvement in Born Free Africa, an initiative dedicated to eliminating HIV transmission from mother to child.

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Lauren Weisberger, a former personal assistant, penned the 2003 bestselling novel The Devil Wears Prada, which was later adapted into a successful 2006 film starring Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, a fashion editor who is thought to be based on Wintour. Another film, R. J. Cutler’s documentary The September Issue, focused on Wintour in 2009.