Anna Wintour embraced the ‘mafia woman’ trend when she attended the Giambattista Valli show with film director Baz Luhrmann during Paris Fashion Week.
The Vogue editor-in-chief, 74, looked chic in a long brown faux fur coat covering a green, fitted, patterned maxi dress.
Her signature straight-cut auburn hair was left loose as she wore large black sunglasses, brown snake-print boots and an orange chunky necklace.
The mafia wife look emerged from the black hole of TikTok’s micro trends, replacing last year’s minimalist trend for a flashier, showy vibe.
Anna fulfilled the brief when she attended the Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2024 show with Moulin Rouge director Baz on Monday.
Anna Wintour embraced the mafia wife trend as she stepped out with film director Baz Luhrmann for Haute Couture Week in Paris on Monday
The Vogue editor-in-chief, 74, looked chic in a long brown fur coat that covered a green, fitted, patterned maxi dress
The Australian Moulin Rouge director, 61, joined the fashion queen in a maxi beige duffle coat, layered over a brown military-style two-piece suit.
Anna’s appearance comes after she reportedly wore her signature sunglasses as she fired almost half of the staff at music magazine Pitchfork.
She was criticized online by her former employees, who called the move indecent and disgusting.
“An absolutely bizarre detail from this week is that Anna Wintour — who was sitting at a conference table inside — didn’t take off her sunglasses while telling us we were about to be canned,” wrote Allison Hussey, a former Pitchfork writer. staff, on X.
“The incivility we have seen from upper management this week is appalling.”
The tweet, posted Friday morning, has already received nearly 300,000 views and hundreds of retweets online.
Conde Nast laid off more than half of the staff at Pitchfork on Wednesday, including Editor-in-Chief Puja Patel and Editor-in-Chief Jill Mapes.
Condé Nast, which bought Pitchfork in 2015, is merging the publication into GQ. The company announced the move in a memo to its employees.
Anna attended the Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2024 show with Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann
The Australian director joined the fashion queen in a maxi beige duffle coat layered over a brown military-style two-piece suit
Catherine Martin, Baz Luhrmann and Anna Wintour attend the Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2024 show
Anna’s appearance comes after she reportedly wore her signature sunglasses as she fired nearly half of the staff at music magazine Pitchfork
The decision “was made after a careful review of Pitchfork’s performance and what we believe is the best path forward for the brand so that our music coverage can continue to flourish within the company,” said Anna, Chief Content Officer and Global Editorial Director from Conde Nast. of Vogue, wrote in a memo to staff.
Mapes, a features editor who was fired, stated on Twitter: “I’ve described my job at Pitchfork as ‘sitting on a Ferris wheel at closing time waiting for them to pull me down.’
‘After almost eight years I had to deal with massive layoffs. I’m glad we were able to spend that time trying to make it a less dudey place so GQ could take the helm,” Mapes added.
‘Fashion legend’ Anna is known for never taking off her signature sunglasses.
Not only does she wear them in the Vogue offices, she is also regularly seen wearing them on the catwalk and even watched the entire Academy Awards in 2015 without taking them off.
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American Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour attends the 87th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 22, 2015
She also wore her signature specs while working from home at her Hamptons home in 2020.
One of the few times Anna, who has worked for Vogue for 30 years, has seen them take them off was when she was made a Dame of Buckingham Palace in 2017.
She wore her signature sunglasses upon arrival at the palace, but took them off before entering the ballroom, where she received the Queen’s award.
During her ’60 Minutes with Anna Wintour’ interview, the US editor admitted that she used her sunglasses as ‘armor’ and that they were a useful tool to ‘hide boredom’.
“I can be in a show and if I’m bored, no one will notice… At this point they’ve really become armor,” she said in 2012.