Anna Wintour: The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and...

If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better.

Anna Wintour

competition fashion hair

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.

Anna Wintour

fashion understanding too-late

The best way to make dream come true is to wake up.

Anna Wintour

wake-up dream way

I'm interested in seeing just the girl on the street because she is unlike any other. I'm inspired by whatever it is she might be wearing.

Anna Wintour

fashion girl might

In today's world you have to interact. You can't be some difficult, shy person who is not able to look somebody in the face; you have to present yourself. You have to know how to talk about your vision, your focus and what you believe in.

Anna Wintour

vision focus believe

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in the New York Times.

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fashion new-york looks

People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.

Anna Wintour

wells want people

Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion.

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fashion truth beautiful

Fashion goes in only one direction -forward- and I am a firm believer in thinking that way too.

Anna Wintour

one-direction fashion thinking

Create your own individual style. I'm not interested in the girl who walks into my office in a HEAD-to-TOE LABEL look that's straight off the runway. I'm interested in a Girl who puts herself together in an ORIGINAL INDEPENDENT Way

Anna Wintour

independent girl office

There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous.

Anna Wintour

nervous fashion people

You either know fashion or you don't.

Anna Wintour

fashion-and-style fashion knows

I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who can argue and disagree and have a point of view that's reflected in the magazine. My dad believed in the cult of personality. He brought great writers and columnists to The Standard.

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dad fashion strong

Some people have the Bible. I have Vogue.

Anna Wintour

vogue people

Go get a job. Whether it’s working as a designer or working in a restaurant and then doing your own thing in your own time, it’s a reality of life. In the end it’s going to be helpful to you and so many others.

Anna Wintour

doing-your-own-thing jobs reality

Everyone should be sacked at least once in their career because perfection doesn't exist. It's important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life.

Anna Wintour

careers perfection reality

You can’t really worry too much…about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.

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competition worry people

It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise.

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mishaps surprise fun

Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can’t really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.

Anna Wintour

fashion inspirational people

Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature those who define the culture at any given moment, who stir things up, whose presence in the world shapes the way it looks and influences the way we see it.

Anna Wintour

editing long lying

The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.