''Fascinating'' Sunday Times
''Deeply sourced and rich with anecdotes'' The Times
''Like a nonfiction version of TheDevil Wears Prada'' Elizabeth Day
''Odell''s extensive reporting dredges up a wealth of delightful details'' New York Times
This definitive biography of Anna Wintour chronicles the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who would, with singular and legendary focus, become the most powerful woman in media.
As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no apparent interest in clothing but, seduced by the miniskirts and bob haircuts of swinging 1960s London, she grew into a fashion-obsessed teenager. Her father, the influential editor of the Evening Standard, loomed large in her life, and once he decided she should become editor in chief of Vogue, she never looked back.
Impatient to start her career, she left high school and got a job at a fashionabl
