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A very interesting conversation took place between Anna Wintour and Morley Safer. It's worth to watch the 60 minutes' this week's segment. In the following part of their conversation Anna Wintour reveals the secret of what made her so successful with the Vogue Magazine.
"The blurb on your unauthorized biography reads 'She's ambitious, driven, needy, a perfectionist. An inside look at the competitive bitch-eat-bitch world of fashion' Accurate?" 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer asked Wintour.
"Well, I am very driven by what I do. I am certainly very competitive. What else? Am I needy?" she replied. "I'm probably very needy, yes. I'm, a bitch…."
"Perfectionist?" Safer asked.
"Perfectionist?" she asked.
"Well, let's try bitch first," Safer said.
"Well, I hope I'm not. I try not to be. But I like people who represent the best of what they do and if that turns you into a perfectionist than maybe I am," she replied."
Speaking of her large sunglasses Ann Wintour thinks they are very useful in two regards. "Well, they're seriously useful. I mean, I can sit in a show, and if I'm bored out of my mind, nobody will notice. And if I'm enjoying it, nobody will notice. So, I think at this point they've become, you know, really armor."
Perhaps this is why she closes large sections of her personality to the public. Here is what the Wikipedia story has to say about Anna Wintour's personality. "She is often described as cold and aloof. "At some stage in her career, Anna Wintour stopped being Anna Wintour and became 'Anna Wintour', at which point, like wings of a stately home, she closed off large sections of her personality to the public," wrote The Guardian. Many former coworkers told Jerry Oppenheimer of how she kept her distance from most of them. But she is also known for volatile outbursts of displeasure, and the "Nuclear Wintour" sobriquet is a result of both. Despite its wide use, she dislikes it enough to have demanded that the New York Times not use it."
Posted May 18th, 2009 by Armen Hareyan
