Diana Vreeland's Influence On Anna Vereland

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Vogue was created in 1892 as a weekly newspaper, it wasn't until the 1930’s that it became a fashion oriented print that celebrated illustrated covers and . The company completely restructured and starting rebranding as soon as former editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland came to power. Vreeland made the magazine more open to sexuality and talked about fashion in a more open less strict way, in return this helped form fashion into a more open form of self expression. Since then it has found itself as the number one fashion magazine in the world consecutively. When Diana was fired in 1971 for spending too much consecutive projects a new predecessor came in but only stayed a few short years and had little impact. In 1988 a new visionaire took throne as editor-in-chief named Anna Wintour. Most notable from her signature bob, sunglasses and of course stern look, she's the persona that is depicted in the famous ‘Devil wears Prada’. Anna aimed to make vogue a more affordable, …show more content…

Her father was an editor at a local newspaper which inspired her interest for writing. Her father would often come to her for writing advice in hopes to keep his articles young and relevant. She fell in love with fashion at an early age, wanting to write and experience as much as she could. Considering she was born into a wealthy family, it made shopping and experiencing incredible things easily accessible. She dropped out of school to experience London and the famous life she longed for. As she grew up she worked in various publications bouncing around from city to city. She wasnt editor-in-chief until 1988 after years of bouncing around various Conde Nast publications trying to salvage failing magazines. She got offered the role and was expected to raise sales as the competing magazine Elle was increasing sales while Vogue stayed stagnant. While she did raise sales she changed the dynamic, style and demographic of the entire