Anna Wintour

Amy Odell told The Cut about the process of writing the biography of Vogue magazine’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, the most influential woman in the fashion world.

The book was written without Anna’s participation – she refused numerous requests for interviews, but gave a list of closest friends and partners with whom the author could talk. Odell started working on her biography in 2018.

— Amy described the first stage of writing the book.

Odell spent a year and a half in libraries, reading archives and letters and searching for people who wanted to talk about Anna, which Wintour eventually contacted. It was very important to Amy that the book was not a set of gossip but a collection of real facts from Anna’s biography and opinions of different people about her personality and success. Therefore, during the entire time he was writing, he conducted more than 250 interviews.

Most people have their own opinion about the life of Anna Wintour from The Devil Wears Prada. Amy Odell’s book is a detailed “humanized” portrait of one of the most powerful women in America. You can learn about her personal life, love story and success from her biography. The author even notes that Wintour once called Bill Gates very attractive.

Odell explains.

In those days, as the book describes, Anna was once asked: “How do you wear heels every day?”. “Not far from the front door of the limo,” she replied.

He finishes Odell.

Amy Odell

Amy Odell is a well-known fashion journalist who once interviewed Anna Wintour. She is a longtime fashion editor for the American Cosmopolitan she.