Vogue boss Anna Wintour on her public persona and being told 'no'

The fashion guru spoke to the BBC ahead of a new Vogue show looking back on the industry's history.

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I’m meeting the woman who has been editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine since 1988 at VOGUE: Inventing the Runway, the show dreamt up by Wintour about the history of the catwalk.

Our rendezvous is in a large underground space and we’re surrounded by three vast screens. It’s fairly dark inside but the sunglasses remain in place during our conversation.

I tentatively ask what they’re for. Are they a shield or for something more prosaic, short-sightedness perhaps?

“They help me see and they help me not see,” Wintour tells me, somewhat enigmatically. “They help me be seen and not be seen. They are a prop, I would say”.

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