How Vanity Fair fell from grace under Anna Wintour
New editor Mark Guiducci is known as “The Anna Whisperer”. But some critics say he is too close to the Conde Nast supremo, and his appointment is about control.
Mark Guiducci and Anna Wintour at the photocall for “Vogue: Inventing The Runway” in London last November. Getty
″I certainly look at Vanity Fair and sometimes read it on the plane … Vanity Fair is a terrific magazine, but I’m not poring over it to see what they are doing.” So said American Vogue’s British supremo Anna Wintour in a 1997 interview with fashion magazine R.O.M.E.
That’s a view which has definitely gone out of style for the formidable fashion queen who reputedly inspired the fierce magazine editor in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada. Having already overseen Vogue since 1988, in December 2020, Wintour, 75, was promoted to chief content officer at Conde Nast, handing her ultimate editorial responsibility for the global editions of Vanity Fair, among other titles.
