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Jun 2025
1h 10m

Anna Wintour: Vogue [Outliers]

Shane Parrish
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The job was editor-in-chief. The goal was to become the platform. And she did.  Once she made it to the top, she didn’t just edit Vogue. She reinvented the power structures beneath it. This episode unpacks how a British girl who couldn’t type built the most bulletproof career in media, survived five decades of disruption, and made herself indispensable to f ... Show More
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