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Anna Wintour Left Jason Wu's Show to Go Watch Roger Federer Play

fashionologie — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:40:54 PDT

>> Yesterday, Anna Wintour arrived to take in Jason Wu's Cruise 2010 show at the Greenwich Hotel in New York, but took a phone call and left four minutes before the show started, leaving Wu's publicist confused. A Vogue staffer told Fashion Week Daily: “She had a plane to catch. But she saw Jason’s entire collection earlier and really liked what she was looking at.” Today, she showed up in Paris with boyfriend Shelby Bryan to watch her favorite athlete Roger Federer try to win the elusive French Open. Maybe she'll be meeting Bee Shaffer, who was in Venice yesterday, at some point?

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Anna Wintour's Fashion Family Tree

fashionologie — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:11:17 PDT

>> In The Devil Wears Prada, the editor modeled after Anna Wintour mentions that if her job is ever threatened, she has a list of photographers, designers, stylists, and editors who she's helped over the years and who have pledged allegiance to her. There's no word on whether Anna actually has a list like that - although there are plenty of people whose careers she's helped - but Page Six Magazine proffers that it doesn't matter: "with her army of progeny installed in cushy Condé Nast jobs . . . Anna isn't going anywhere fast."

If you've ever been interested in Anna Wintour's family tree - from her first husband David Shaffer, who after learning of Anna's 1998 affair with current boyfriend Shelby Bryan called Bryan's wife to tell her "Your husband and my wife are f---ing," and all his relatives to Shelby Bryan and his descendents, it's a good rundown, from Bee and Charlie Shaffer to Alexis Bryan.
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Anna Wintour, Obama Girl

fashionologie — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:51:43 PDT

>> Whether she meant to send the message or not, Anna Wintour has reinforced her status as someone not to mess with.

As of yesterday, she has been added to the list of Barack Obama's bundlers for raising between $100,000 and $200,000 in campaign contributions. That $1,000-a-head fundraiser, "An Evening with Michelle Obama," she held on June 10 along with Andre Leon Talley, Calvin Klein, and her boyfriend Shelby Bryan, must have been highly successful, because Andre Leon Talley has also been added to the list for contributing between $100,000 and $200,000. Curiously, their fellow hosts Calvin Klein and Shelby Bryan are nowhere to be found on the list.

All this generosity is good and well, but I can't help but remember when Hillary Clinton pulled out of Vogue earlier this year because she "already [had] the women's vote in the bag" and "[didn't] need [Vogue] anymore," causing Anna to chastise her in Vogue's February 2008 Editor's Letter. Having full Vogue support on Obama's side must be like icing on the cake.
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Anna Wintour Lets Shelby Bryan Get Between Her and ALT

fashionologie — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:43:45 PDT

Anna Wintour with boyfriend Shelby Bryan and Andre Leon Talley, Christian Dior Fall 2008 Couture Show; Paris, June 30.
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anna wintour, beau, make a rare public appearance

philleif — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:35:00 PDT

With Shelby Bryan, Sex and the City After Party; New York, May 27.
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Notes from the 2010 Costume Institute Gala: Jessica Stam's Torn Gown, No Armani Dresses Worn, Miuccia's Front Row Gaga Seat

fashionologie — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:18:47 PDT

>> There were no headbuttings this year at the Costume Institute Gala, but there were a few other surprises - particularly for Jessica Stam, who Tweeted last night of her slinky Rachel Roy gown: "I can't believe I put my dress on at 6pm and it was ripped all down the back. Last minute stitching before I hit the red carpet at the Met."

And there was Katy Perry, who nixed the de rigeur designer gowns in favor of a LED-flashing dress from a shop in France called CuteCircuit, earning her today's WWD cover. "I respect and appreciate Anna Wintour, but I'm doing this for me," she told StyleList. "That's what people should do, especially when they're representing true women in American fashion. [If] Anna comes over and says 'Shut that f-ing thing off,' I'll do it."

Sarah Jessica Parker debuted her first Halston Heritage design »

fashionologie — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:43:11 PST

>> Shakeups Up Top at Vogue, Elle -Danko Steiner, who has Vogue's design director for four years, announced last week he is leaving the magazine to pursue photography. Raul Martinez, founder of AR New York, has been chosen by Anna Wintour as creative consultant, stepping in to work with Vogue starting Dec. 1 (his work will appear in pages starting next Spring). And over a year and a half after Nina Garcia left Elle, Alexis Bryan Morgan has been named her successor as the magazine's fashion director starting January 2010. Morgan was most recently executive fashion director at Vanity Fair, and is the daughter of Anna Wintour's boyfriend, Shelby Morgan. [WWD, FWD]