“This… stuff’? Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select… I don’t know… that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back.

But what you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise. It’s not lapis. It’s actually cerulean. And you’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent… wasn’t it who showed cerulean military jackets?

I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin.

However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you’re wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff.“, and with that quote a fashion movie was born…that quote from Meryl Streep character Miranda Priestley is based loosly on Stylistocrat by R&R Blog update…American Vogue’s own Anna Wintour.

From those trademark Chanel Sunglasses to her famous front row seat for every major fashion presentation, nobody commands the room the way Anna Wintour does. Dubbed the most important woman in the world by some (yes, believe it or not there are those who do believe that) “Queen Anna”, can make or break you in the field. Whether you like fashion or not, Anna is a force of nature!

Recently, these have been unsettling days Anna, the British-born editor who has ruled over the world’s preeminent (and most profitable) fashion magazine for the past eleven years,transformed Vogue from a lackluster legend into a blockbuster that generated $149 million in ad revenues last year. She’s a true grinder in the industry… a workaholic with a cool, relaxed demeanor; Anna probably has as many enemies in the fashion game as admirers. “She’s the scariest woman in the whole wide world,” said one designer who spoke to Stylistocrat by R&R under anonymity. “Not the kind of person you’d want to cross.”

Anna came up with the vision years ago to put Pop Celebs on Vogue’s cover…

Questions are out there, Stylistocrat and other bloggers have asked them as well…has the ice-queen facade has begun to melt. Her fifteen-year marriage to David Shaffer ended in divorce because of an alleged relation with Billionare Shelby Bryan cop’d with Wintour’s top lieutenant at Vogue, Kate Betts, bouncing for the editor-in-chief’s job at rival Harper’s Bazaar, and her departure — accompanied by several writers and followed by that of fashion director Paul Cavaco — left Wintour reeling to find replacements.

All of this with newcomers like InStyle and Marie Claire gaining momentum and stealing Vogue’s buzz, there was talk that Condé Nast chairman Si Newhouse was losing confidence in his golden girl. The fashion field whispered that Wintour was burned out, bored with fashion and more interested in joining the society pages than covering it.

Michael Kors, inspired by Anna.

While Vogue’s editors and writers cheered Betts’s appointment, Anna didnt share in the general goodwill. Her supposed last words to Betts, were “good luck.” Many believe Anna’s feelings were just plain ol hurt.

That being said, Queen Anna is still ruling… Over the past decade, from her perch at Vogue, Wintour has not only dictated fashion tastes to the public but also influenced fashion’s course in the back rooms of design shops as well.

Anna is often called on by the world’s biggest design houses to recommend new blood. She has single-handedly boosted the careers of favored designers such as Michael Kors (see pic above) and Marc Jacobs, pushing their clothes to department stores and TV audiences. Another pet project was the iconic John Galliano, whom she set up with a backer and virtually installed at Dior. Because of that Kors, Jacobs, Galliano & Calvin Klein return the favor by advertising heavily in Vogue.

On the contrary designers who fall out of Anna’s favor don’t fare to well. When she stopped covering Geoffrey Beene in 1994, the designer stopped inviting her to his shows. The rest is history…

Anna’s classic signature that appears in every issue of Vogue

Be it good or bad, or if Anna is seen by some in the industry as on the way out and or losing touch with her audience. It’s still safe to say that the woman behind the Chanel shades… is still the Top of the fashion pyramid.