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Anna Wintour has been Editor in Chief of VOGUE since July 1988.
Ms. Wintour joined Condé Nast in 1983 as Creative Director of
VOGUE, and in 1986 she returned to her native England to become Editor
in Chief of British VOGUE. She was Editor in Chief of HG from September
1987 until 1988, when she rejoined VOGUE in her present position.
Ms. Wintour began her career in 1970 in the fashion department of Harpers
& Queen magazine in London. In 1976 she moved to New York and
joined Harper's Bazaar as a fashion editor. Next, she joined New
York as senior editor, and in that capacity produced the magazine's
fashion, style, and living coverage before moving on to VOGUE.
Ms. Wintour has been actively involved in fund-raising, particularly
for AIDS research and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1990, Ms. Wintour
played a strategic role in developing the fashion industry's AIDS charity
program the CFDA/Vogue Initiative, through which she has helped raise
more than $12 million, chiefly through the highly renowned 7th on Sale
program.
She has been the recipient of various awards for her leadership and philanthropic
efforts, most notably the CFDA Award for Lifetime Achievement and the
Award of Courage for AIDS Research from amFAR.
From 1995 to the present, Ms. Wintour has co-chaired seven fundraising
galas for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, which together
have raised more than $21 million. In recognition of her work on its behalf,
the museum named Ms. Wintour Honorary Trustee in 1998.
In 2003 Ms. Wintour spearheaded the establishment of the CFDA/Vogue
Fashion Fund, an unprecedented initiative to aid emerging American fashion
designers in the struggle to build a successful business. Now in its third
year, the Fund has not only become an anticipated annual hallmark of the
American fashion industry, it has also inspired European fashion communities
to begin like programs of their own.
In addition to editing VOGUE, Ms. Wintour executed the development and
launches of Teen Vogue (2001) and Men's Vogue (2005), and
is Editorial Director of both titles.
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