They say the best and most inspiring stories are true ones and which better true story to pick to read this May Bank holiday than Jerry Oppenheimer's book on Anna Wintour OBE - the American Vogue's Editor-in-Chief since 1988 - where he gives us candid and objective insights into the life of the most influential woman in fashion.
(from the hardcover) Anna Wintour is ambitious, driven, insecure, needy, and a perfectionist - and she's considered the most powerful force in the more than $100 billion global industry.
With her signature Louise Brooks bob, trademark sunglasses, Manolo Blahnik stilettos, Chanel suits, and glamorous furs, she's a sexy international diva, gossiped about from New York to Milan, from Paris to Tokyo.
As famed designer Oscar de la Renta raves, "...She is a star. There has never been a Vogue as important as Vogue is now."
How did Wintour, who quit school over disputes regarding her miniskirt's length, and who had no real writing or communication skills, rise to the pinnacle of the fashion magazine world?
Based on scores of interviews with present and former friends and colleagues, Front Row is the scrupulously researched, often shocking story of the cool life and hot times of this enigmatic icon - a candid portrait of a fashion-obsessed teenager in Swinging Sixties London who claws her way up the ivory tower in New York, always artfully crafting and reinventing herself.
Front Row is also an intimate examination of Wintour's personal passions and needs, her loves lost and won, and her feuds and achievements. It is an inside look at one of the world's most influential women as well as at the catty, competitive, bitch-eat-bitch world of fashion.
About the author: Jerry Oppenheimer has been writing definitive, bestselling unauthorized biographies of American icons since the mideighties. He has worked in all facets of journalism, from national investigative reporting in Washington DC to producing TV news and documentaries. His other books on public figures include Martha Stewart, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Ethel Skakel Kennedy and Bernie Madoff. Front Row was published back in 2005 and is the first and, as far as can be ascertained, only biography of Anna Wintour.
Vogue was founded in 1892.
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