Anna Wintour wore SUNGLASSES while laying off staff of music mag Pitchfork: ‘The indecency is appalling’

Anna Wintour reportedly wore her signature sunglasses as she fired almost half of the staff at music magazine Pitchfork.

The 74-year-old editor-in-chief of Vogue was criticized online by her now 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.

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 across the company,” said Wintour, 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.

The ‘fashion legend’ Wintour is known for never taking off her signature sunglasses.

Magazine publisher Condé Nast, owner of Vogue, GQ and The New Yorker, is laying off nearly 100 employees in the US due to a sharp decline in advertising revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic

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.

She also wore her signature specs while working from home in her Hamptons home in 2020 — while pleading with others not to go out during the COVID-19 outbreak.

One of the few times Wintour, 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 ‘armour’ 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.

She said: ‘There is no more important rule for all of us to follow. “We must pledge at this time to stay in our homes as much as possible.”

Wintour has been editor-in-chief of Vogue since 1988.

In 2020, magazine publisher Condé Nast, owner of Vogue, GQ and The New Yorker, came under fire when it laid off nearly 100 employees in the US due to a sharp decline in advertising revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The cuts were announced in an internal memo that also said that fewer than 100 other staffers would be temporarily furloughed and that “a handful” of the company’s roughly 2,700 staffers would have reduced work schedules.

“Not all teams will be equally affected by these actions. That doesn’t mean some teams are more valuable to us than others,” Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch said at the time. “We tried to identify specific areas where we could reduce our costs without limiting our growth priorities.”

Also that year, Condé Nast announced in a separate memo that employees making more than $100,000 would take a 10 to 20 percent pay cut.

“These decisions are never easy, and not something I ever take lightly. “I want to be transparent about the principles and approach we have taken,” Lynch added.

Dailymail.com reached out to Conde Nast but did not receive a response.