Anna Wintour Quotes

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Anna Wintour

Profession : Editor

Birth : November 3, 1949

Fashion today is available to everybody in a way that it's never been before: you've got every designer you've ever heard of working for H& or Target. That's fantastic.

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It's very important to me that I look good when I go out publicly. I like looking at my clothes rack in the morning and deciding what to pick out. I enjoy fashion.

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It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.

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In the fact that 'Vogue' is someone that can help guide enormous audiences through this fascinating world, I would like to think we are as influential and actually are now reaching so many more people than we ever dreamt of back in the Fifties or the Sixties.

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Learning how to be editor-in-chief of 'Vogue' wasn't something that happened overnight.

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Things change. You walk on the street and get a Starbucks, and things have changed by the time you come back to the office.

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Designers don't live in a vacuum; they are not blind to what's going on. They, too, will be inspired by what they see, and that will come out in their work.

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I don't have a high-powered life out of work. I like to go to the country for the weekend with the kids and the dog and play tennis. I am very good at turning off.

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I hear the same anxieties over and over again. Everything is too fast; everything is too precarious. We have more access than ever to the people we are trying to reach, thanks to social media and mobile technology, and more information than we know what to do with.

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It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape.

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I've been thinking a lot about the speed and spectacle in today's fashion industry, because they seem to mirror stresses in other creative fields.

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The elitist way of looking on the runway, frankly, seems old fashioned.

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Western design houses have been exploring China in terms of investment for well over a decade.

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I don't feel that Chinese designers have reached the level of prominence that European or American designers have, but we've noticed in fashion schools in the U.S. and in England and we've seen how much the makeup of the students in the classes have changed there in the last five to 10 years.

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I see a lot of women in these great-looking sneakers, as though they are almost very influenced by sport.

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We're all used to hearing the word 'authentic' a little too often these days, but in Senator Gillibrand's case, it's entirely accurate.

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I think everyone in the United States has such admiration for the British royal family, and with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, there's a whole new interest in the younger generation.

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Trump's foundation has done nothing. Its board is packed with relatives, and he's going to use his presidency to sell himself and his brand and profit personally for himself and his family.

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I hope that President-elect Trump will be a successful president for us all.

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I was brought up in a family of journalists, and a mother who was deeply committed to human rights, so I think that the mix of those two huge influences have been very, very important to me.

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