Anna Wintour, heralded as the most powerful woman in publishing and a global fashion leader, is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Vogue after 37 years. She has been chairperson of the annual haute couture Met Gala since the 1990s. Revered for her talent, she has been criticised for her reportedly cool and demanding personality a la Meryl Streep in the movie The Devil Wears Prada.
A lazy retirement is not in her future, since she will continue as Vogue’s global editorial director, as well as chief content officer for its parent company Conde Nast.
Born 3 November 1949 in London, with a journalistic father, she has a determined Sun Scorpio in a controlling square to Pluto and an innovative trine to Uranus in Cancer; with a workaholic Saturn and Mars in Virgo. Her Aries Moon may oppose her Neptune.
She is credited with giving American Vogue a new lease of life, turning it into one of the world’s top fashion publications by overhauling its output with less well-known models and mixing inexpensive clothes with couture.
Vogue founded 17 December 1892 has a Sagittarius Sun in a friendly, creative conjunction to her Venus; and its Uranus is conjunct her Sun so she would challenge it to become let out its conventional streak.
When she took over in 1988 tr Uranus Saturn in late Sagittarius were conjunct Vogue’s Sun and her Venus.
Conde Nast, the parent company, 24 June 1909, is moving through undermining times, along with the wider magazine world in general, with tr Neptune Saturn square the Cancer Sun.
Anna Wintour ahead will have a bumpy road with Conde Nast through 2026 to 2028. Her own midpoints are mixed, with success in 2027/28 but a few glitches before then.
Why move if you love your job? To give someone else a shot at the top job! To create space for new talent! To embrace the unknown. To experience vulnerability as ‘the new person’.
I think a lot of the credit for her success should go to Grace Coddington whose completely innovative approach as photo editor and later creative director made both British Vogue and then later American Vogue the fashion industry icons that they became. A Guardian profile wrote that she “has produced some of fashion’s most memorable imagery.” Also worth an astro profile perhaps?
Yes please.
And synastry chart with Anna.
Must be controlling then, because the high end kaleidoscope of culture that she curates is the opposite of boring.
All that Libra surprised me given her prickly reputation. The Sun sq Pluto having a wide orb surprised me too. The drive of Saturn and Mars in Virgo makes sense, but again a wide orb.
Too bad there is no birth time to fully explain the influence of (and on) A.W.
She gave an interview abt her first cover years after it ran – highlighting a call from the printer concerned he had the wrong image as it broke Vogue mold – she clearly takes pride in her work ( a nod to the solo pride of an Aries north node?..definitely the Uranus streak) .
A 37 year fashion editorship must be a record. Intimidating shoes to fill.
Right. I’ve decided. Anyone who stays in the same job for 37 years is either controlling or boring 😉
My comment to you posted above,
Caroline…
Her Sun is in a fixed/water house and her Sun/Moon midpoint (if my quick calculation is correct) is at circa 27 degrees Capricorn, near her Jupiter in Capricorn. With her Saturn in Virgo which rules the sixth house of work, maybe she found something that she enjoyed doing and didn’t see the need to move? Fixed houses do not mean a person is fixed in personality, it could also mean they are settled. The whole chart has to be taken into consideration. Why move if you love your job, just for the sake of it? Our mind/brain is encased in our skull, yet we can go anywhere in our mind! Her Moon is also conjunct her North Node in Aries which is sextile her part of fortune in Gemini which is where we can find material success or luck. I am sure with her reputation and success, she may have been head hunted for all we know!