Anna Wintour is formally a slob.
OK, not likely. However she could have confirmed that even she isn’t proof against a bit of mess.
On Monday, through the 2025 Met Gala, eagle-eyed social media customers on X, previously Twitter, noticed a tiny flaw on the Vogue editor-in-chief’s customized Louis Vuitton robe.
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Wintour paired the silver embroidered costume with a powder blue coat, her signature bob and a bit of purple stain that may be seen barely beneath her uncovered hand on the left aspect of her costume.
Though the style icon is fairly non-public, she has a popularity for perfectionism. Wintour has earned her notoriety partially to the 2006 movie, “The Devil Wears Prada” — with many believing that Meryl Streep’s character, Miranda Priestly, was primarily based on Wintour.
She has additionally been the de facto host of the Met Gala because the first time she co-hosted in 1995, and makes many of the choices for the well-known occasion from the design of the purple carpet to the star-studded visitor listing.
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With these tidbits in thoughts, X customers had an entire lot of enjoyable making a giant deal out of Wintour’s itty bitty stain. One common tweet that shared a photograph of Wintour’s look alongside a close-up of the stain, boasted the caption: “THE STAIN?!!! Someone is getting fired…”
Different customers rapidly acquired in on the joke.
“STOPPP. I know she was fuming when she found out,” one other X person mentioned.
“She has like 3 assistants and no one had a tide pen?” a 3rd person questioned.
“Terrified for whatever member of Anna Wintour’s team who’s about to be on the receiving end of the rage about that stain on her dress,” a person quipped.
“stop pointing out that stain on anna wintour’s dress pls yall are gonna get some poor intern executed,” an X person cracked.
One viral tweet shared a screenshot of Miranda Priestly trying judgmental with the caption: “Anna… is that a stain on your dress?”
Though loads of folks acquired in on the sport of poking enjoyable of Wintour, a couple of X customers tried to defend her by claiming the stain wasn’t a stain.
“that’s STITCHING. not a stain…” one X person alleged.
“It looks to me like it might be a burn and not a stain,” one other added.
“Water droplet 💧 No one to blame here. She should’ve closed her coat,” a person mentioned.
And regardless, whether or not the spot on Wintour’s costume is a thread, burn or weirdly purple water is moreover the purpose.
The purpose is that It’s a flaw. And Miranda Priestly, er, Anna Wintour, doesn’t do flaws!
Once more, particulars about Wintour’s actual working life and persona are largely non-public, and far of her public persona is linked to Streep’s phenomenal portrayal of a fictional character.
Lauren Weisberger, who wrote the 2003 novel “The Devil Wears Prada” that was tailored into the film of the identical title, has by no means explicitly mentioned Priestly is predicated on Wintour — though she beforehand labored as Wintour’s assistant for a 12 months.
Weisberger advised the Each day Mail in 2010 that Priestly “wasn’t a one-to-one portrayal of Wintour. But of course my time at Vogue informed the book; there’s no denying that.”
When Wintour was requested final 12 months in regards to the comparisons between her and Priestly, she advised the BBC that it’s “for the audience and for the people I work with to decide if there are any similarities between me and Miranda Priestly.”
