Anna Wintour
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Podcast Appearances
I learned how to do a layout.
I learned how to write a caption.
She wasn't afforded the luxury of specializing.
She had to learn every job in detail.
Anna had three qualities that mattered.
Taste, organization, and certainty.
She never forgot her dress, never lost jewelry, never second-guessed decisions.
People may not always like it, but they knew exactly what she thought and what was expected from them.
Sounds a lot like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk.
Her editor noticed something else.
Anna could spot talent before it had a name.
She'd book unknown photographers who'd become famous.
She'd champion designers others ignored.
Remember those eight newspapers every weekend?
Those thousands of magazine pages?
She wasn't just reading.
She was building a mental repository.
When Anna saw a new photographer's work, her brain compared it against millions of images she'd studied.
When she met a designer, she measured them against every trend she'd ever tracked.