I Don't Care About Anna Wintour
Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue, was on the Late Show with David Letterman last night. Who cares? Someone probably cares. I don't care. She's the editor of a magazine. About clothes. What? It's 2009, you guys. It's fun to play dress up, and everyone deserves the confidence that comes with looking your best, but people are literally dying out there. And what is a "magazine"?
Anna Wintour was on Letterman to promote a documentary about her and Vogue called the September Issue, which will be in theaters (in New York and Los Angeles) this Friday. Fair enough. I like documentaries. Although, documentaries in which the subject of the documentary is also the person promoting the documentary strike me as suspect. You mean Anna Wintour, a woman who is notoriously cold and obsessed with her own self-image, is totally on-board with the Anna Wintour documentary? Well then I am sure it gives us a shocking look into how great Anna Wintour is and what a fabulous and important life she leads. Kill me.
She's the Simon Cowell of fashion! You know who else is horrible and also doesn't need a fawning documentary? Simon Cowell.
"But Gabe, Anna Wintour has influenced millions of young women." That's too bad! Young women, I am sorry that happened! We should work on getting you some better influences. "But Gabe, fashion is a 300 billion dollar global industry." Gross. The only thing grosser than the moral bankruptcy of the fashion industry is the morally bankrupt fashion industry's self-justifications. "But Gabe, she is the subject of The Devil Wears Prada!" Well I didn't read the book, but I saw the movie, and it was awful. Guess what: everyone has terrible bosses in their life. Grow up.
Whatever.
Posted by Gabe at 5:00 PM in Documentaries, Late Night
Tags: Anna Wintour | David Letterman | Fashion | The September Issue | Vogue
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Why is David Letterman interviewing a used q-tip?
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I'm fairly certain it's the same demographic- or what I like to call "The Jon Gosselin Zone". You can read about it in my book coming out in October: Douchebags Among Us. It revolves around a simple mathematical formula: Asher Roth fans x Tucker Max fans / Juggalos= People like Jon Gosselin, or in this case, our new troll.
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shit.
PTSD flareup.
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Sorry, Constantinople.
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I'm sorry that this isn't upvoted more! (Sorry Constantinople, one day you'll be able to laugh at it all.)
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A prostitution whore, even!
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Hahaha I'm glad I'm not the only one who Lots Of Loved heartily at that comment.
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You gotta admit though, this guy is the luckiest troll ever.... No one can reply to him...
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I wish we could say it was luck, but it's actually technique. There's a reason that odd bit of code appears before each of his posts. No idea what he's actually including to disable the replies, but I'm sure the Videogum team is on it.
(Right, Videogum team? I know you have had a rough summer of disfunctionality, but I am here cheering you on! Go team!)
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I'd only be happy if the front cover of Vogue was this.
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Gawker is not real life.
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Look at that! David Letterman is interviewing your girlfriend!
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Ugh. Why would I wanna spend precious hours with these cretins? I don't care if this turns out to be some enlightening dissection of an image-obsessed culture and the media that perpetuates it, these people are nauseating, and you couldn't pay me to suffer through this.
Fashion society, from the top-dogs to the hangers-on, are categorically the worst. End of discussion. A double feature with this and a doc about the daily grind of marketing executives would bring about the biblical apocalypse.
Burn it to the ground.
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Even if you like fashion (I do), who on Earth is stupid enough to care about the life of the editor of Vogue? Obviously, someone who is crazy enough to find it out without a movie.
In addition, I loved The Devil Wears Prada was a good movie in my opinion. Meryl Streep can do no wrong.
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"In addition, I loved The Devil Wears Prada was a good movie in my opinion"
I know, I know. Grammar.
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Now she's going to be highly influential on people who are trying to make the most boring, who gives a shit documentaries
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"But Gabe, Anna Wintour has influenced millions of young women."
That's how Lauren Conrad happened. Thank you, Anna Wintour!
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it seems like certain websites conspire to make us care about people who aren't at all important. now, i could be cynical and say that this includes every gossip, celebrity, and fashion site, and I will. they are all awful and exist to cloud the national consciousness with trivial matters. THERE ARE IMPORTANT THINGS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD, PEOPLE! for instance, sharks with penises in their mouths (really, how did that happen!?!).
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I saw her in the lobby of my old job. She's kinda hot.
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The Devil Wears Prada is very misleading, and come the Reckoning, all who heeded its false message will fall to Beelzebub, who will probably be wearing Ed Hardy.
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I thought she had laser eye surgery when she was wearing those glasses, because that would be the only fashionable/logical explanation for wearing sunglasses inside.
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The moer exclaimation points in your post, the more trollish you seem, "Weezy"
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Hey guys, so I went and saw the documentary in Sydney (Aus) last weekend. It doesn't really dissect Anna Wintour's life very much, it is more of a look at the relationship between Vogue's head stylist Grace and Anna. Old school friends, who now work together, and one does all the creative work and the other just sits there with a red pen. And it looks at how the whole fashion industry is kind of under the thumb of one person's tastes.
So you may not like fashion, which is fine (no one needs to care about feathers and how much they are in), and you may not like the woman, which is also fine (she comes off as very unlikable but maybe just because she has no emotions, not because she's trying to be a bitch) but the documentary is pretty interesting. If it was about a musician who created fifty songs and then their producer or record label was like "Only two of these are not crap" there's a chance people would be more interested, or at least not knee jerk and write it off. Or about a writer and their editor, etc etc.
Also - fashion is about as important as typography (exactly none important except for people who are interested) but we didn't all stab Helvetica in the face with an ink dispensing Q blot (I don't know how printing works). So let's all do a breathe.
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I understand your point of comparison if the film was about musicians or writers, but I think an important distinction needs to be made re: fashion vs. art. I do not see fashion as a legitimate form of artistic expression. This is just my opinion, but I believe my opinion is fact. I went to an art school that started as a fashion design school, and for years I had to put up with fashion majors telling me that fashion is the purest form of art, that it's a personal expression of who you are that you could broadcast every day. I understand and totally respect that position, but it what sets fashion design apart from other forms of artistic expression is that fashion is 100% about literal surface, where a great song or novel or film strives to burrow below that surface. Fashion is primarily about appearances, which is only natural given the medium, but by it's nature it's impossible for a piece of clothing, no matter how impeccably designed, to strive towards some universal question or basic, fundamental truth.
I think it's this pretense that leads to a lot of the smug, esoteric, the-lowly-commoners-shall-never-understand attitude that you see in the fashion community. They have this idea that the work they do is important, and over decades of not being accepted as a legitimate art form, they closed off their circle to a circle-jerk society of people who design clothes for designers and the media that validates their delusions of grandeur.
I understand this doc is about the media portion of that circle-jerk, but that's one circle that I never want to be in the middle of.
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Yeah I understand - if you're not interested you're not interested, and very few people who are all about **FASHION** (glitter bomb goes off) do much to help their own cause.
I guess a better comparison would be some other form of design. Were people as angry and fun poking at the architecture doco Sketches of Gehry? Making a building look like a giant piece of crumpled aluminum foil because of your muse is pretty up your own ass - what's the difference if your ass is covered with the finest beaded llama wool kilt that you designed yourself.
I would maybe say that Grace, the other half of the movie, who puts together incredibly cool fashion and photography shoots, makes art.
And like I said before, this isn't Michael Moore exposing the fashion world for what it is, it's just an interesting look at a crazy industry. Anyway, just interested in the HATE this is inspiring - and the really funny jokes about what an older woman looks like!!! Wrinkles guys!!! yet other design themed docos get off scott free.
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D'oh! that was type late i just realized.
Anna Wintour is a C-star-star-Troll
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Whew. I just threw up enough to lose a few pounds. (HORRIBLE JOKE ALERT.)
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I kinda want to battle dance that skinny bitch into Mordor. How can I make that happen?
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Did she ever model? Because I came across this picture and the similarities are eerie.![]()
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dear anna,
on behalf of a generation of women who are confused about what is an appropriate amount of body fat to have and whether or not visible ribs are sexy, thank you so much for inspiring us (to hate ourselves.)
i know what you'll say, anna. "don't hate the player, hate the game, boo. the game is the game." and it's so true - the game IS the game. and i hate the players AND the game.
if there is some kind of 'defending your life'-style reckoning after death, i hope you get sent back to try over again, because between allegedly being a vile person and being a driving force in an industry that makes its money off of our body dysmorphia, well, BEIN A GUD PURRSON - YR DOIN IT RONG.
caringiscool
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THANK YOU. That's what I was trying to get at with the 'battle dance that skinny bitch into Mordor' (to throw her into the burning bog), but you said it waaaay better.
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That may be true to a certain extent but I think you're doing a massive disservice to the immensely talented people working creatively in the fashion industry.
Did you not learn about aesthetics in art school (serious question)? We are years past from when "is it art?" was still a relevant question. I'm sorry, but even if you find some aspects of the industry to be shallow and pretentious, fashion is art.
It's worth mentioning that if high art must "strive towards some universal question or basic, fundamental truth" then there's nothing more fundamental or truthful than the commodities which shape our existence.
And just in general, I think people are being needlessly cruel to the makers of this documentary. In fairness, from what I hear, it isn't exactly the most insightful or revealing take on the business, but the filmmakers certainly don't deserve the flat out biased hated you're dealing them. At the very least you might want to watch it before you damn it for having an interest which differs from your own.
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who would wanna watch this shit????
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The fashion industry would, then, do itself better by not treating people on the fringes of their imaginary standards with such apparent contempt. I'm a photographer, and would love to work in fashion because you get to work with the best of everything. But at the same time, I'd be working with the worst of everything.
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My favorite part of TDWP (The Devil Wears Prada) was when I pretended that I haven't seen it in front of my friends because I have serious masculinity issues.
Also every scene with Meryl Streep. When she wasn't in a seen, I was like, "Where's Meryl?". Essentially, I'm in love with Meryl Streep.
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Essentially, the AMPAS agrees with you.
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Jesus, A-Dubs has had the best plastic surgery ever. How old is she? 30? 50? 70? An ageless hellspawn who crawled forth from the primordial ooze wearing sunglasses and a fabulous pair of Loubs ?I don't care, as long as she bravely defends the right to feature fur in Vogue's fashion spreads and sticks Sienna Miller in my face every three months.
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Videogum trolls are the new black.
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I find her alleged nickname "Nuclear Wintour" pretty funny.
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The large man in glasses wearing a weird-ass fur coat screams "It's a famine of beauty! A famine of beauty!" What a tragedy! If only other famines, like famines of FOOD existed... Oh, wait.
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Famine of Beauty! Famine of BEAUTY!!! When does THAT guy get a documentary?
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this is som funny shit doggs!!!!
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