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Vogue Editor Tops Time List for Fashion Faux Pas

by Karenke4 | December 17, 2008 at 02:44 pm

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Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue and one of the most influential voices in the fashion world, has topped Time Magazine's list of biggest fashion faux pas of 2008.

Well known in the fashion world for her demanding demeanor and trademark bob and sunglasses, Wintour gained notoriety with the 2003 novel, and later film, The Devil Wears Prada, believed to be modeled after her.

Her Time topping blunder debuted at a MET Costume Institute gala she hosted last May, peopled by celebrities and New York socialites.

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One could probably read as many metaphors about the transformative power of fashion in the silver-sequined, elaborately padded Chanel gown that Anna Wintour wore to the Costume Institute gala on Monday night as one could in Superman's cape, which happened to be hanging in a gallery down the hall. The floor-length dress had curiously curling crescents attached at the hips and the shoulders, giving Ms. Wintour, the Vogue editor and overseer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Party of the Year, the fuller-bodied appearance of Botticelli's Venus on her clamshell. She seemed to be broadcasting a message of total earthly control.

And although the installation's theme for the event was "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy” critics were happy to fault Wintour's futuristic choice of evening wear.