Dame Anna Wintour DBE: Vogue’s Editor-in-chief and Condé Nast’s Artistic Director

Dominating the fashion industry as editor-in-chief of Vogue, British-American journalist Anna Wintour is instantly recognizable by her signature sunglasses and pageboy-bob haircut. Fashion editor for several big-name magazines early in her career, Wintour took over as chief editor of British Vogue in the mid-1980s.

Moving within the Condé Nast global media conglomerate, she shifted to become the editor of American Vogue a year later. Wintour brought a new vision to Vogue, turning her attention away from supermodels. Her shifted focus towards featuring celebrities on the magazine cover rejuvenated the magazine. Criticized as being aloof, one former assistant fictionalized her experiences at Vogue with Wintour into the book “The Devil Wears Prada,” later made into a movie.