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.