“Empress Winter, with her power, disappointed me with her humanity. he wrote in the book“Our friendship has grown thick and rusty over the years. …I am no longer worthy to her. After this week’s apology, Tully remains unmoved.” It’s part of the ideological environment.” He recently told Sandra Bernhardt at her Sirius XM show. “She has her entitlements and I don’t think she ever gets in the way of her privilege as a white person.”
Winter’s elitism, her refusal to feature different body types and skin tones in magazines, or her harshness towards employees was no secret. It wasn’t until 2018. Tyler Mitchell Became the first black person to shoot the cover — a Request from Beyoncé herself. (For a black woman to shoot for the cover of Vogue, she obviously needs to be one of the most powerful black women in the world.)
2006 movie devil wears prada, based on the novel of the same name by Lauren Weisberger based on her experience working at Winter, has received positive reviews for humanizing the Winter boss. An opinion that needs to be won at any cost. She has no friends, but she has a job. Still, she was stunning, played by American icon Meryl Streep and was nominated for an Oscar. Notorious Cerulean Speech critically acclaimed and still thoroughly exposed.
Winter has built her entire career on the foundation of her worship of white women’s meanness. This isn’t to say she isn’t talented or unfit for the job that she does, but it speaks to the culture she brings to brands like Vogue, or, frankly, the company as a whole, Condé Nast. Personas are not just hard-to-please bosses, woman A boss as bad as a man. It’s an incarnation of the old, less PR-optimized Nasty Woman/Girl Boss modus operandi. The idea of being authoritarian or disparaging in the workplace is feminist.
Wintour embraces a version of femininity that has to be skinny, white, elegant, aloof and rich. If you don’t have these qualities naturally, you have to work hard towards them.Eat less if you’re too big, adhere to Eurocentric beauty standards if you’re black, act mean and never crack a smile. sex and the city And Carrie Bradshaw’s love of Vogue and its tenants was contested rather than eerie and hopeless. she says in one episode. “I felt it nourishes me more.” (You know what feeds you more than Vogue? All Foods.)
Winter may be unique in her influence, but her influence can be traced across many industries, not just media. Founded on the cult of idiosyncratic female individuality, the company can be found in a wide variety of brands. Sinks, nasty gal, glossy, and The Wing, a women’s coworking space founded by Audrey Gelman. But there is a distinct difference between a woman like Winter and a woman like Germain. Hide their harshness behind public displays of feminist solidarity.
So it would be disingenuous to act as if Wintour was just one cog in a huge anti-black machine. Winter’s charm lies in her all-encompassing power. If you want to do anything with Vogue, you need Anna’s permission. (even the creator of hill I knew that if I wanted Lauren Conrad to take an internship at Teen Vogue, I had to. Sell Wintour on it First in a private meeting. ) Her whole brand is about her unwillingness to compromise, but with that comes questions about how she chooses to wield her power. but the black people who work there, want to work there. Thirty years into her tenure, magazines are driven entirely by her designs, publishers are so heavily influenced by her, it’s nearly impossible to imagine Condé Nast without her. Artistic Director and Global Content Advisor.
Almost every publication in American media must face its failures when it comes to hiring, promoting, and retaining black employees. They all require a dramatic change in office culture. .And Wintour may publicly express her desire for Vogue to become a more inclusive magazine and workplace, but Wintour wants to use her own privileges and She doesn’t seem to be willing to sacrifice her position. 20% pay cut As Condé Nast embarked on drastic cost-cutting measures and job cuts related to the pandemic (reportedly $2 million salary), and even now, According to Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch:Bosses like Anna Wintour have to be dragged off their desks like the French Revolution.
How credible is Winter’s apology if her entire brand is an ice queen? Condé Nast and the fashion industry at large have repeatedly failed to make her workplace remotely comfortable for Black people. Nonetheless, seemingly with no repercussions, she allowed her to become this way. In fact, Winter’s entire bag is doing it her way, critics damned.
In her half-hearted apology, Winter alludes to having been little more than a passive participant in a media institution that rarely gave black people jobs, rewards, or credit. No, just accept the truth. It’s like this because Vogue designed her Wintour to be.if she bottom Although she eventually left the company, much of the magazine is influenced by her, so it’s unclear how the magazine could have gone on without Winter taking the helm. That’s the point. Perhaps it’s time for Anna Wintour’s vogue to finally come to an end and make way for something new.
