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Anna Wintour: The most powerful woman in fashion

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3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

She's a fashion icon - known for her sharp bob and dark glasses. As Paris Fashion Week wraps up, we consider the enduring influence of the Vogue editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour. How does the woman who has edited the fashion magazine for nearly 40 years stay relevant in a world of TikTok trends and social media influencers? 

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Guest: Harriet Walker, Fashion Editor, The Times. 

Host: Manveen Rana. 


Clips: CBS Late Show with David Letterman, Disney+ In Vogue: The 1990s, YouTube/OxfordUnion. 

Photo: Getty Images

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From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story.

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I'm Manveen Rano.

1:19.0

Growing up in the 90s, way before Tik-Toc set the trends it was vogue the magazine that

1:26.4

dictated what was fashionable their artistic visionary covers inspired many, including our very own fashion editor, Harriet Walker.

1:37.0

One really striking one from the 90s, I think it's Drew Barrymore in John

1:44.6

Galeano for Dior I think she just looks like an absolute kind of fairy tale

1:48.8

princess almost like a watercolor like a watto it's hard to see that it's actually a photo and

1:54.0

she's next to a lion so well completely fabulous yeah and I think I remember

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