controlling style, 180, 244–46
cries, 183–84, 214–15, 252, 348
dates older men, 31–41, 52–53, 82–83
decorating sense, 30, 57–58, 86, 225–26
designs house in Greenwich Village, 221–23, 225–26
divorce from David Shaffer, 349–51
dress style at work, 119, 182, 207
drop-out period, between jobs, 151–56
eating habits and diet, 71, 72–73, 81, 107, 217
editor-from-hell reputation, 122–23, 125–29, 177–79, 213, 217–19, 236–37, 258, 263–64, 316–17
editor in chief of American Vogue, 289–359
eyesight, poor, 24, 215–16
family background, 1–10
as fashion editor, working style, 117–18, 159–62, 176–79, 185, 244–46, 259, 324–26
fashion industry and designers supported by,
331–34
fashion passion of, 43–46, 59, 71, 122
fashion photo shoots organized by, 74–75, 80–82, 165–66, 169–71, 184–85, 187–88, 218
fired from Harper’s Bazaar, 109–10
friendship with V. Lasky, 24–26
gifts of clothing from, 24–26, 69, 113, 156–57
goes to London parties and clubs as teen, 36–39
gossip about her and Si Newhouse, 283–86
hair style, 20–21
hardworking ambition of, 65, 95–97
health obsession and avoidance of drugs and
drink, 37–38, 107
intellectual style and interests, 53–54
invited to join American Vogue, 189–90
invited to join British Vogue, 230–35
and James Wedge, 71–74
and Jimmy Moore, 104–6
job interview at Interview magazine, 171–72
job interview with Grace Mirabella at Vogue, 190
and Jon Bradshaw, 83–93, 104–8, 132–34, 139–42
legs, her obsession with, 32
little-girl social style, 132–33
on Lower East Side, briefly, 143–45
meets and marries David Shaffer, 193–201, 220–24
meets Si Newhouse, 204–7
and Michael Stone, 167–69, 191–95
and Michel Esteban, 151–56
modelling experience, 58
money inherited by, 79, 148
moves to New York, 97, 100
and Nigel Dempster, 59
own apartment of, as teen, 29–31
and photographers, rapport with, 71–74, 104–6, 129–31, 182–85
pregnancies and children of, 229–30, 233–34, 264
refuses to be fired, 171 résumé of, parts left out in interviews, 118, 150, 152, 174, 209
returns to America from time at British
Vogue, 262–64
and Richard Neville, 58–62
rivalries and staff dismissals, 236–43, 257–62, 267–69, 274–80, 282, 314–20
rivalry with other Condé Nast editors,
293–96
roman à clef about, 326–28
rude and cutting behavior of, 24–27, 66–68, 241–43
salaries earned at various jobs, 147–48, 239, 307
scandal over Shelby Bryan relationship,
340–44, 352–54
schooling, cut short, 10–18, 47–50
and Shelby Bryan, 335–44, 354–57
and Steve Bobroff, 56–58
takes over American Vogue, 274–88
unkind reporting about, 260–61
vacation-from-hell taken by, 310–13
visit to U.S. and American family as teen, 53–54
Vogue ambition of, 70, 103, 265–67
weekends at Patrick Lichfield’s country
estate, 89–90
women friends few, 68
working with others, difficulty in, 139, 178, 181–82, 218–19
works at American Vogue, first period, 207–19
works at British Vogue, 236–46, 257–62
works at Harper’s Bazaar, 63–75, 80–82, 94–97, 101–10
works at Harpers & Queen, 63–75, 80–82, 94–97
works at Harrods, 51
works at House & Garden, 263–73, 280–81
works at New York magazine, 173–207
works at Savvy, 158–75
works at Viva, 116–31, 134–50
works at Vogue, 207–19
works in boutique as teen, 42–44
writing skill lacking, 70–71, 123–24, 161–62, 179–80
Wintour, Charles Vere, 1–11, 17, 19–21, 23, 24, 26, 28–31, 36–37, 39–40, 42, 44–50, 52, 53, 57–58, 61, 63–64, 72, 76-78, 81, 86, 94–95, 97–99, 154, 207, 216, 220–21, 224, 229, 239, 242, 243, 252, 255–56, 320, 346-49
and Audrey Slaughter, 97–99
AWs hunger for approval of, 46–47, 220
death of, and memorial service, 346-49
ice-water-in-veins legend, 7–8, 11
job on Evening Standard, 6–10
meets and marries “Nonie,” 2–4
protegée of Beaverbrook, 7–8
womanizing of, 76–78
Wintour, Eleanor Trego Baker (“Nonie”), 1–10, 17, 24, 25, 26, 28–31, 44–50, 53–55, 57, 61, 77–78, 97–99, 154, 220, 224, 243, 252–54, 255–56, 264, 346
death of, 346
family background, 2
life after divorce, 255–56
meets and marries Charles, 2–4
own money of, 29
professional life as social worker, 10, 45–46
Wintour, Major General Fitzgerald, 4
Wintour, Gerald Jackson, 1–2, 4–8, 28, 348
birth and upbringing, 1–2
death by accident, 6–8, 28
Wintour, James Charles, 1, 8–9, 45, 48, 55, 113–14, 252–54, 264, 349
Wintour, Madeleine Bunting, 346
Wintour, Nora Hilary, 8–9, 45, 48, 55, 61
intellectual seriousness of, 61
Wintour, Patrick Walter, 8–9, 30, 48, 53, 55, 152, 323–24, 346, 348
Wintour family, 28–31, 60, 97–99, 118
effect of son Gerald’s death on, 7–8
frosty relations within, 77–78
house in Kensington, 29–31, 98–99
marriage collapse of, 97–99, 154
style sense lacking in, 30–31, 45–46 “Wintour Table,” 222
Wolfe, Tom, 176
Women’s Exchange (restaurant), 107
Women’s Wear Daily (newspaper), 231
World War II, 4–6
Wyman, Jane, 101
Yardley, Jonathan, 296
Young, Toby, 316–17
Zellweger, Renée, 322
ZE Records, 152, 154
Zilkha, Cristina Monet, 152
Zilkha, Michael, 152, 155–57
Zurmatt, Switzerland, 30
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