Anna Wintour: I think what I often see it that people are frightened about fashion because it scares them or make them feel insecure they just put it down. On the whole people that may say, the mean things about our world I think that's usually because they feel, in some ways, excluded or, you know, not a part of 'the cool group' so as a result they just mock it.
Words of wisdom from a fashion icon. This film is a documentary about Vogue editor Anna Wintour and the equally iconic Fall issue of Vogue magazine that reaches upwards of 750 pages or so. It is mind bending to comprehend how our fashion choices are essentially dictated by by one powerful woman at the drop of a hat. I think the reason Wintour rubs people the wrong way is that she's a powerful woman. No powerful men have been called into question for being emotionless or cold.
Wintour is a business woman and it would have been shocking if she had broken that image in this film. I think that is what the filmmakers were hoping for; a glance of the real woman underneath the sunglasses and crossed arms. She's smarter than that and the result was a lukewarm reporting of what we already knew. Even for someone who religiously buys the September issue every year, this movie left me caring less about the ridiculous images that grace the pages of every issue. Fashion doesn't frighten me, it just bores me to the point where it's okay to wear sweatpants even when I'm not working out. I would rather watch the Devil Wears Prada any day and gleam the same understanding.
Nibble: Interesting to those who follow fashion; a waste of time for those who don't.
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