Front Row: Anna Wintour: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue's Editor in Chief
by Jerry Oppenheimer
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Shes ambitious, driven, insecure, needy, a perfectionist - and shes considered the most powerful force in the more than 100 billion fashion industry. Shes Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue, the worlds fashion bible. With her signature Louise Brooks bob, trademark sunglasses, and glamorous furs, shes a sexy international diva, gossiped about the world over. As famed designed Oscar de la Renta declares, "Shes a star".How did Wintour, who quit school over the length of her hemline, and who show more 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 life story 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. It is also an intimate examination of Wintours personal passions and needs, her loves lost and won, and her feuds and achievements. Anna Wintours story is an inside look at one of the worlds most influential women as well as the catty, competitive bitch-eat-bitch world of fashion. Meow! show lessTags
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Although the subject of the book is far from interesting (a relatively vapid soul of a human), the writing is over-the-top sensationalistic, attempting to create something out of literal nothingness.
Terrific fun, if not terribly meaty.
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Jerry Oppenheimer is the bestselling author of unauthorized biographies of public figures including Hillary and Bill Clinton, Anna Wintour, Rock Hudson, Martha Stewart, Barbara Walters, Ethel Kennedy, Jerry Seinfeld, and the Hilton family. In addition to being a biographer, he has also worked in several different capacities as a journalist, show more including as an investigative reporter and a producer of television news programs and documentaries. show less
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- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Art & Design, General Nonfiction
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- 070.5 — Computer science, information & general works News media, journalism & publishing Documentary media, educational media, news media; journalism; publishing Publishing
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- PN5123 .W585 .O66 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Journalism. The periodical press, etc. By region or country
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