The September Issue (2009)

Anna Wintour: Self

Photos 

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Anna Wintour : I think what I often see is that people are frightened of fashion and that because it scares them or it makes them feel insecure, they put it down. On the whole, people that say demeaning things about our world, I think that's usually because they feel in some ways excluded or, you know, not part of the 'cool group' so as a result they just mock it. Just because you like to put on a beautiful Carolina Herrera dress or, I don't know, a pair of J Brand blue jeans instead of something basic from K-Mart it doesn't mean that you're a dumb person. There is something about fashion that can make people very nervous.

• Journalist : Many people said that you are an 'Ice Woman'.

  Anna Wintour : Well, this week it was pretty cold, that's all I can say.

• [the documentary film crew's cameraman is featured in one of the photos from the photoshoot] 

  Anna Wintour : [patting her stomach, referring to his paunch]  We're working on this one. Little bit of retouching, need to go to the gym!

• Anna Wintour : [looking at a photo of Jennifer Garner]  She looks pregnant. We need to fix her.

• Journalist : Is there a way to wear fur this winter?

  Anna Wintour : There's always a way to wear fur. Personally I have it on my back.

• Anna Wintour : My older brother is in charge of planning low income housing .. and my sister is very involved in, ah, supporting farmers' rights in Latin America; and my younger brother is the political editor of the 'Guardian'

  [highbrow UK newspaper] 

  Anna Wintour : - very successful, very brilliant -

  [pause; marginal self conscious smile] 

  Anna Wintour : - and, er, my two bothers and my sister, um, I think they're very amused by what I do.