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8x What can you learn from Anna Wintour

We are in the tail end of fashion month. A month in which a woman will have worn at least a hundred outfits. Or rather worn; dressed. The empress of fashion has been ruling over American Vogue for almost thirty years and is decisive in how we see fashion. If you sit in that position with all the designers dancing around you, begging for an approving nod and cheering when you wrap yourself in their creations, it's not so hard to develop a signature style. Enter: Anna Wintour. And what you can learn from her.

1. Black is boring

I have undoubtedly written that black is elegant and always good, but if you want to stand out a bit in the fashion circus, you choose color. I have never seen Anna Wintour in head to toe black. She has said so herself in this hilarious interview. Moreover, she celebrates color, print, and different materials all in one look.

2. (Fake) fur spices things up

Here we must immediately make the note that if you want to learn something from it, you choose fake fur. There are also beautiful variations of it. Add a fake fur accent to your collar or cuffs and you instantly give that outfit a fashion injection.

3. Dresses just above the knee

Anna is blessed with a slender figure. Something to do with good genes, mouse-sized fashion bites, and being on the tennis court at six every morning and smashing. She loves to show off her toned arms, so you see Anna without sleeves or with a half sleeve. At almost 68, she can still pull it off.

4. The belt

You can picture Anna in slender, figure-hugging dresses where she subtly accentuates her 59-centimeter waist with a narrow belt.

5. A signature hairstyle

Then it's immediately clear. And while you're at it, throw on a big pair of sunglasses too.

6. No bag

This shows real class. You have no bag because there are people to carry your things for you. You might see Anna with a clutch for show or with her phone to call her chauffeur. By the way, Anna has a big problem today because the mayor of Paris has declared a car-free Sunday. Right during Fashion Week. How is poor Anna supposed to get from Givenchy to Balenciaga to Céline? We can't possibly send the poor woman on the metro, can we?

7. Keep the shoes simple

As extravagant as the top is, Anna keeps it calm with the shoes. She also recidivates with her cream-colored Manolo Blahnik pumps. Usually, her shoes are beige or black and not too high. That comes in handy today, see point 6.

8. Drape the coat

Also an Anna look that the entire fashion posse has adopted. One takes a coat, but does not put the arms through, but under the sleeves. This is also the epitome of fame and power. After all, you don't have to lug heavy shopping bags around, and your walks outside in the cold are of minimal distance because your chauffeur drops you off at the entrance. You casually drape that coat around your fragile body to bridge the small passage in the wild. Then you casually toss it in the direction where you expect an assistant.

By the way, do you think Anna Wintour is an elderly, cold hag? Read this once, then you'll think differently.