Word: wintour
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paper, they seem almost interchangeable. Young, attractive products of privileged British households, both are working mothers of small children and second wives to older, distinguished husbands. More important, Editors Tina Brown of Vanity Fair and Anna Wintour of House & Garden are journalistic prodigies boldly imposing their visions on two venerable American magazines in the same publishing empire. Recruited by Newspaper Scion S.I. Newhouse, proprietor of the eleven Conde Nast magazines, Brown and Wintour are rising stars who may one day equal such Conde Nast legends as Diana Vreeland, formerly of Vogue, and Ruth Whitney of Glamour...
...close, however, the two could not be more different. Willowy, auburn- haired Wintour, 38, is cool and withdrawn; Brown, 34, a shorter, shapely blond, is brassy and outgoing. Their editing styles are as distinct as their looks. Brown is verbal, literary, with a knack for matching writer to subject, while Wintour is a visual creature, renowned for her eye for style...
...After Wintour arrived at House & Garden last fall, rumors of a Dynasty-style cat fight with Brown began to circulate. Although Wintour did snatch Fashion Writer Andre Leon Talley away from Vanity Fair, the two women say they are friends, not rivals. Still, the talk grew louder earlier this year, when Wintour's controversial makeover of House & Garden (which she renamed HG) hit the newsstands. Aghast at a number of similarities to Vanity Fair -- particularly the emphasis on celebrities -- one wag dubbed HG "Vanity Fair with chairs...