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Anna Wintour, Vogue, The September Issue and Box Office results!

Written by Jed Medina

Monday, 31 August 2009 05:27

If you've seen the movie The Devil Wears Prada, then you certainly would have noticed the character played by Meryl Streep. The inspiration behind that character is the most controversial, feared, admired, respected, demonized personality in fashion - Anna Wintour. A former personal assistant, Lauren Weisberger, wrote the 2003 bestselling roman à clef The Devil Wears Prada, which is the basis for the movie starring Streep as Miranda Priestly, a fashion editor widely believed to be based on Wintour.

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Who is Anna Wintour? Wintour is a British-American fashion editor and the editor-in-chief of American Vogue, a position she has held since 1988. Now there is a documentary about the controversial Wintour and it's entitled The September Issue. And it seems moviegoers find it fashionable to watch it! Reports INDIEWire:

R.J. Cutler‘s Anna Wintour doc "The September Issue" made a very fashionable entrance into theaters this weekend. According to estimates provided by Rentrak earlier this afternoon, the Roadside Attractions release - which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival - grossed a massive $240,078 from six New York screens, giving it an average of $40,013. That's the second-best per-theater-average of any 2009 release (behind "Sunshine Cleaning")...
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"We're thrilled with this opening," Roadside Attractions' Howard Cohen told indieWIRE this afternoon, "people are fascinated by Anna Wintour and wanted to see this intimate and funny film, the first real portrait of a legend who's reigned at Vogue for 20 years. Of course the recognition factor from ‘The Devil Wears Prada' was a major factor in getting this kind of immediate and large response-we knew that and helped that along. We did giant wildposing all over Manhattan with an image of her and a quote referring to TDWP. [ read more ]

What the movie is all about: The September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine weighed nearly five pounds, and was the single largest issue of a magazine ever published. With unprecedented access, this film tells the story of legendary Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour and her larger-than-life team of editors creating the issue and ruling the world of fashion. Watch the trailer below:

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Featured Reviews: Says Karina Longworth @Spout:

Initially, The September Issue comes off as something like the Teen Vogue segments of The Hills (though her royal highness Anna Wintour is swapped in for cut-rate LA imitation Lisa Love, the MTV reality show's masterful manner of spinning diegetic commentary out of eye rolls taken out of context is left intact), genetically blended into an alternate universe version of The Office. Except in this office, the workers actually work, and in fact are terrified not to because their boss is Michael Scott's polar opposite: impatient, undemonstrative, and absolutely incapable of taking no for an answer.

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As a portrait of Wintour the person, RJ Cutler's documentary does little to dig under the surface of Wintour's iconic, impassive under bangs image. But as a meditation on art vs commerce, emotion vs rationality, and the role of fantasy merchants in the recently-burst economic bubble, The September Issue is both cerebral and accessible. If it's not as provocative as it could be, it's definitely entertaining. [ read more ]

Screen International's David D'Arcy has this to say:

Shot adroitly by Bob Richman, The September Issueshifts from runway to office to meetings to photo shoots, as Vogue assembles the seasonal issue that sells clothes worldwide, and sells the advertising that keep the magazine ahead of its competition. Wintour’s influence is so crucial that the chairman of Neiman Marcus pleads with her at a breakfast in Paris to pressure designers to deliver their goods on time for the stores.

Wintour here is complicated. She is blunt and decisive but through most of the film she takes her trademark dark glasses off in the office, and for interviews with Cutler. She discusses her father, a journalist, and reacts with sadness when her daughter Bee shows little desire to enter either journalism or fashion.

Besides a keen sense of style, Wintour’s gifts as an editor involve inspiring fear and loyalty among those who work for her and forging a strategy to groom celebrities to drive magazine’s sales. The numbers prove her right so far. [ read more ]

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What's on your mind? Are you interested in watching this documentary film? Do you subscribed to Vogue magazine? What are your impressions of Anna Wintour? Let us know what you think!

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