Fashion magazine legend Anna Wintour announced that she is stepping down as editor of American Vogue after 37 years, shaking the fashion world to its core.
Wintour told a staff meeting on Wednesday that she will stay on as Conde Nast's chief content officer and as editorial director.
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Anna Wintour sits next to Queen Elizabeth II at a Richard Quinn show in 2018
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Wintour, 75, began working at British Harper's Bazar in the early 1970s and assumed the role of editor of American Vouge in 1988. Over the next four decades she turned her magazine in the fashion world's bible that decided trends, crowned designers and photographers and solidified the link between fashion and entertainment.
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Wintour was the first to identify the growing force of female stars and featured them on her magazine's covers, pushing super-models aside.
Her first cover in November 1988 featured Israeli Michaela Bercu, wearing Gap jeans and a Christian Lacroix velvet jacket studded in jewels. Joining the $50 jeans with the $10,000 haute couture piece was considered subversive and post-modernist at the time.
Over the years Wintour eared a reputation as a cold, enigmatic and fearsome figure, and the inspiration for Meryl Steep's iconic character in the "The Devil Wears Prada." Wintour came to the film's premier in 2006, wearing Prada, showing that she also possessed a sense of humor.