Anne de Courcy

Malice and back-stabbing behind Vogue’s glossy exterior

Nina Sophia Miralles’s entertaining history covers a century of high drama at the offices of the world’s top fashion magazine

A Vogue model, 1954. Credit: Horst P. Horst/ Condé Nast via Getty Images 
issue 20 March 2021

‘What job do you want here?’ asked the editor of Vogue, interviewing a young hopeful. From behind her black sunglasses the 24-year-old replied coolly:‘Yours.’ It took time, but she got it. The girl was, of course, Anna Wintour. Now she is the global Vogue supremo and queen of fashion, before whose lightest frown the whole industry quakes, and the magazine is acknowledged to be the top glossy.

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