Have you ever wondered what life is really like behind those ever-present Tom Ford sunnies that are always perched so perfectly on Anna Wintour’s head, framed by that eponymous symmetrical bobbed hair? t5m’s Angelica Hermon finds out what goes on inside the mind of the fashion high priestess…
The September Issue, directed by RJ Cutler, was filmed in 2007 and awarded a grand jury nomination for its excellence in documentary filming. The 88 minute feature, which shows Cutler’s team as they bravely shadow Wintour and her troop of editors, is named after the largest magazine edition of the year. Originally shown at the Sundance Festival, the documentary shows Anna ‘Nuclear’ Wintour, as she is so often referred to, in all her divine glory. Insiders were fascinated to see whether The Devil Wears Prada actress Meryl Streep had really played a truthful role, and we can confirm that the resemblance is uncanny.
The film follows Wintour throughout her daily life, from castings to catwalks, meetings to meltdowns, proving that she does a whole lot more than just run a major US fashion magazine. Wintour, who is well known to hold supreme authority in the fashion court, was somehow able to make Yves Saint Laurent rethink a whole collection, and had the nerve to ask Prada if they would kindly ‘re-interpret’ some of their designs for that season. The fearsome editor, truly unlike no other, famously even managed to get the dates of Milan Fashion Week changed so that they would fit into her bursting schedule.
The film tells the truth, with Wintour only speaking directly to the camera on a few rare occasions, always with her expressionless poker face. She really is the Devil wearing bespoke Prada, high-powered enough to disclude a $50,000 shoot from her magazine simply because she didn’t like it and heartless enough to criticise photographer extraordinaire Mario Testino because he didn’t shoot Sienna Miller in front of the Colosseum on a shoot in Rome.
Looks like there might be a Nuclear explosion this Wintour…
Angelica Hermon
