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This definitive biography of Anna Wintour follows the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who would—with singular and legendary focus—become one of the most powerful people in media.

As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no apparent interest in clothing but, seduced by the miniskirts and bob haircuts of swinging 1960s London, she grew into a fashion-obsessed teenager. Her father, an influential newspaper editor, loomed large in her life, and once he decided she should become editor-in-chief of Vogue, she never looked back.

Impatient to start her career, she left high school and got a job at a trendy boutique in London—an experience that would be the first of many defeats. Undeterred, she found work in the competitive world of magazines, eventually embarking on a journey to New York and a battle to ascend, no matter who or what stood in her way. Once she was crowned editor-in-chief of Vogue—in one of the stormiest transitions in fashion magazine history—she continued the fight to retain her enviable position, ultimately rising to dominate all of Condé Nast.

Based on extensive interviews with Anna Wintour’s closest friends and collaborators, including some of the biggest names in fashion, journalist Amy Odell has crafted the most revealing portrait of Wintour ever published. Weaving Anna’s personal story into a larger narrative about the hierarchical dynamics of the fashion industry and the complex world of Condé Nast, Anna charts the relentless ambition of the woman who would become an icon.

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Amy Odell is a fashion and culture journalist. Her work has appeared in New York magazine, The Economist’s 1843, Bloomberg Businessweek, and numerous other publications. She is the author of Anna and Tales from the Back Row. Find out more at AmyOdell.com.

Proportions of Anna: The Biography PDF

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books (May 3, 2022)
  Language ‏ : ‎ English
  Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
  International Standard Book Number-10 ‏ : ‎ 1982122633
  International Standard Book Number-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1982122638
  Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
  Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
  Best Sellers Rank: #2,591 in Books

Reviews From Customers

R. Patrick Baugh
TOP 1000 REVIEWER
A fascinating bio of one of America’s most powerful women
May 3, 2022

She’s the ultimate style-setter, and easily the most powerful woman in publishing. A nod from her and you’re a star; a frown and you should look for a new line of work. And it takes a tough woman to climb to the heights she’s reached. I couldn’t put this revealing bio down.
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Damien Heart
Brilliant and Respectful to Anna Wintour, Fashion Royalty!
May 5, 2022

I can only imagine meeting fashion royalty as Anna Wintour, remember to breath and not faint for goodness sake!! Curtsy as appropriate!! I look forward to an enjoyable journey into “Anna: The Biography.” 💚 💚 💚 Arrived May 3 , finished May 5. Dedication, Endurance, Sophistication, Historical, Educational.

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gammyjill

Excellent bio…
May 18, 2022

I read a lot of biographies and memoirs and I just finished “Anna: The Biography” by Amy Odell. “Anna” is Anna Wintour, the most famous person in the fashion industry and one of the most famous in the publishing business.
She’s been editor of Vogue for 25 years, and in addition, she’s high up in the grander Condé Nast empire. She’s been employed by other magazines on her way up to publishing pinnacle, Vogue editor.

Amy Odell has written a good, serviceable biography of Wintour. I’m not sure if it is an “authorized” bio but I think Anna Wintour offered the cooperation of people close to her to Odell. This is important because Wintour is famously a private person. Much of the info within the book has been gathered from other sources, other interviews, other memoirs…. For instance, Odell takes much from Andre Leon Talley and his second memoir, “The Chiffon Chronicles” (which is also worth reading). Other friends and detractors also contribute.

Getting back to reading a biography; a book can be written as either “pro” or “con” towards the subject. This is particularly true of bios of the Royal Family, which in particular, are examples of the “pro” Charles or “pro” Diana, “pro” Meghan or “pro” The Queen. Those bios tend to be quite boring after a while because they are so relentlessly…biased.

But Amy Odell’s bio is written pretty much straight down the line. I honestly couldn’t tell how Odell felt about either the fashion world, in general or about Anna Wintour, in particular. And that ambiguous writing style is a boon to the reader, who doesn’t feel the need to mentally defend or castigate the book’s subject.

It’s a good book and there are pictures in the back. If you like fashion, you’ll probably like this book.
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wendy C
NOT VERY Interesting,infact boring
May 7, 2022

Nothing new that wasn’t available all ready.
I would think Anna wouldn’t be much interested in this,the author just rehashed what was all ready out there.

J W R
Rigorous, juicy, authoritative, thoughtful & empathetic must-read
May 6, 2022

If you’re passionate and curious about fashion, media, publishing, pop culture, and/or the interplay of all of the above — and how singularly focused, ambitious, and sometimes divisive/misunderstood power players (especially women) shape these things, THIS is your book. Amy Odell’s exhaustive research and access, combined with her sharp insight, sly humor and intuitive sense of Anna Wintour’s psychology and intent make this biography both definitive and gripping. A must-read for Spring/Summer, and then Fall/Spring…read it!

DomeniqueCY
4 stars for the writing/ But how does this women still have a job?
May 29, 2022

This book left me with two very specific questions: How does this woman still have a job? How is Conde Nast still in business?

In terms of autobiographies, it is well written and very generous to the subject, but not overly forgiving. The writing is complex and did require me to pause to reference other books about that period at Conde Nast and draw a bit of an org chart of the publishing world in my head. (Was a big fan of Jay Fielden’s T&C, loved “Save me the Plums” about Gourmet…I grew up in the heyday of loud publishing, so I often stopped to remember this world as it was).

As for the subject…Anna Wintour is a product of her time, and the first I dunno 60 or so years of her life follow the trajectory of many successful career women in her era. Well-placed, well-connected upbringing, breaking barriers in her industry, failing up, etc. We all know the 20th-century narrative. I mean despite little blip-recessions here and there, things were really great in this world between 1981 and the 2000s. The end of the Cold War! Deregulation! The Spice Girls! It was really hard not to do well when the entire world was doing well.

Things start getting dicey in 01 but really shit hit the fan in 08, and now it feels like the world is completely changed. But what was confusing is just that whole entire microcosm of publishing refused to see it coming and adapted begrudgingly.

Anna was a company woman, and Si Newhouse was like the Jack Welch of Magazines. He grew his business through acquisition and product development. It seemed that before the crash, Conde Nast had like 4 home magazines, 7 fashion ones, 3 men’s, and so on. It was cannibalizing its own readership and ad sales! Anna, too, seemed to not understand segment marketing. The book recounts an interview she had about Men’s Vogue in which that target market seemed to be, I dunno, everyone who was a man and maybe women, too? She really wanted to be appealing and inclusive to almost everyone but at the same time kind of missed the mark on …marketing.

I also knew from “Save the Plums” that Conde Nast was terrible at the internet, but this new biography also confirmed it. It was like instead of simply looking outside their building and asking how to make money on the internet, they just kept stumbling around creating these properties that had nothing to do with their core brand and trying to consolidate intellectual property over advertisable content.

While this is all happening, she did a really really good job of failing to see colonial mindsets or insensitive tropes in what was being produced…She like totally missed the Harvey Weinstein thing! In her focus on her “vision”, she actually was blind to many things in the overall cultural narrative, and she probably propagated some really bad ideas. I dunno… she eventually comes around in like last year (2021) when the book ends…

The thing that is so frustrating is instead of creating her own elegant exit, as many of her compatriots have (I love reading airmail!), she continues to try to push her vision, which is just not really reflecting the world in which we live nor is it reflecting the world in which we aspire to live.

4 stars for the writing. “Grace” was still a much more captivating read.
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Kelsey Topper
Anna gives us a real, fleshed out person
May 18, 2022

You may think you know what Anna Wintour is really like from the film “The Devil Were Prada.” Meryl Streep was unforgettable as the Anna character Amanda Priestly, and she dripped snootiness and disdain as much as her outfits dripped haute couture. While great entertainment, the film shows one side of the real Anna Wintour. Amy Odell’s Anna gives the reader the fleshed out picture of a real person. Anna is very well researched and fair with lots of surprising and interesting details. I was engrossed by what really goes on behind the scenes of the Met Gala and how Anna Wintour made her way up the ranks of the fashion magazine world from a teenage intern in London (looked down on by her intellectual family) to head honcho at Conde Nast and friends with a who’s who of fashion, politics and Hollywood. It’s a fascinating read about how these worlds intersect, and I heartily recommend.

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