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“You can make a film in Hollywood without Steven Spielberg’s blessing, and you can publish software without Bill Gates’s blessing, but you can’t succeed in fashion without Anna’s blessing.”

‘Anna Wintour’s Brand Anna’, WSJ

bohemea:

Christina Hendricks by Don Flood

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Psychology is also at work when you look at the women of Paris. The principle at work here is the assumption of style and the amplification of grace. Because you are in Paris, you assume that women are fashion-aware, which colors all your judgements about dress, hairstyle, and other factors of appearance. Because you suppose the most stylish of intentions behind whatever the actual outcome, you will find seductive and ennobling qualities behind almost everything and anyone. What would be a dowdy old hag or a trampy termagant in the wrong part of Baltimore is suddenly the epitome of French cuteness. It’s a sophisticated variant on the “Emperor without cloths” syndrome. Ionarts via Marginal Revolution (via somethingchanged)

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sabrinaco:

karl and alice

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mythreads:

Karl Lagerfeld’s short film starring Lara Stone. Er, don’t give up your day job.

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Among the people she [Anna Wintour] impressed was Condé Nast’s famed creative director Alexander Lieberman, who arranged for her to meet with Vogue editor Grace Mirabella. As Wintour recounted the story, Mirabella asked the young editor exactly what job she wanted at the magazine. Wintour smiled brightly and replied, “Yours. I imagine the interview ended rather quickly at that point. From this fascinating New York article.

I love this photo! What better symbol of the decline of old media and the rise of new media? Yes, that’s Anna Wintour perched in the front row between the bloggers. (via this New York Times article)