Anna Wintour Joins Magazine's Hall Of Fame

Anna Wintour, the most distinguished magazine editor of Vogue and the real-life inspiration for Meryl Streep's role in the flick The Devil Wears Prada, is elected to the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame. She will be honored at the National Magazine Awards on April 22.


Anna Wintour is one of the most powerful people in the fashion industry today. Her reign at Vogue since 1988 has paved the way for the success of many models and celebrities. She has established Vogue as the standard-bearer of today's high-fashion glossy magazines and with it, she determines who will become the next "it" girl in fashion.

"Throughout her career, Anna Wintour has exemplified the highest standards of taste, in both journalism and fashion. She has defined style for a generation of magazine readers and come to epitomize the essential qualities of editorial leadership," said Sid Holt, ASME's chief executive.

Just like fictional Miranda Priestly in the 2003 bestselling roman à clef The Devil Wears Prada, Anna Wintour is a fashion editor highly-acclaimed for her eye to fashion trends but with an intimidating, aloof, and demanding personality that often alienates associates. Her critics call her "Nuclear Wintour."

But her contribution in the world of fashion is widely praised. As a fashion industry power broker, she uses her influence to favor young fashion designers, many of whom are now brand names like John Galiano and Marc Jacobs. With her signature pageboy bob haircut and dark sunglasses, she has also become a fashion icon frequently seen sitting in the front row of many fashion shows.

As the newest addition to the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame, Anna Wintour will join previous honorees and magazine icons like Martha Stewart, Tina Brown, and Hugh Hefner.

Ugly Betty's Mark Indelicato Interns At Teen Vogue

Teen actor Mark Indelicato from the Ugly Betty series will intern at Teen Vogue after his TV gig ends this spring.


Life is imitating art for this fabulous 15-year-old actor as he brings the Ugly Betty scene into the real-life world of fashion. The TV series which stars America Fererra focuses on the lives of employees at the fictional fashion magazine Mode.

Mark Delicato says he would love the camera follow his life as an intern at the teen fashion magazine.

"I want to have a reality show about it. My boss said he's determined to make me cry. He said it makes good TV."

When Ugly Betty wraps up its fourth and final season this spring, the teen actor's internship at Teen Vogue will be his new spring gig.

Although he will miss his co-stars from the comedy series, the teen actor looks up to the future full of optimism.

"I think we'll all go to bigger and better things, and it'll be perfect — everything is going to be fabulous."

Mark Indelicato is a native of Philadelphia. He is of Puerto Rican and Italian ancestry. He plays one of the three regulars on Ugly Betty with Philadelphia ties along with Ana Ortiz who plays his mother Hilda and Becki Newton, the receptionist at Mode.

Aside from being a TV actor, Mark Delicato is also a student at New York's prestigious Professional Performing Arts School.

Comedian Tina Fey Models For Vogue

"I don't look at models who are crazy skinny and think I want to look like that, because a lot of them are gigantic, with giant hands and feet."

Tina Fey's impersonation of former presidential candidate Sarah Palin seems an easier work than doing photo shoot for Vogue. Still, her awesomeness is impossible to impinge on.

The star of 30 Rock lands the magazine gig with clear intention — talking about her fashion style evolution and not on being a "cow."

So what is fashion for Tina Fey?

"People will say, 'Oh, fashion magazines are so bad, they're giving girls a negative message' — but we're also the fattest country in the world, so it's not like we're all looking at fashion magazines and not eating. Maybe it just starts a shame cycle: I'm never going to look like that model, so… Chicken McNuggets it is!

"And conversely, I don't look at models who are crazy skinny and think I want to look like that, because a lot of them are gigantic, with giant hands and feet. Also, my dad is an artist — a painter by hobby — and I constantly would see realistic nudes. Because we were raised around art and went to museums and the women I grew up around were curvy... There wasn't this value on skinny, skinny, skinny. Curvy was clearly meant to be the winner. I go up and down a few pounds with a relative amount of kindness to myself. And I have a daughter, and I don't want her to waste her time on all of that."

Indeed, Tina Fey is not a fashion model but a comedic actor. And so she succumbs to the awkwardness of photo shoots.

"At one point I was posing for (Mario Testino), and he was talking from behind the camera and he was like, 'You have to fliiiirt, darleeeng. You have to bee-leeve you are wuuuurthy to be on the cover.' And then at one point he said very quietly, 'Lift your chin, darling. You are not eighteen.' I was like, 'You probably say that to all the 23-year-olds.'"

Not everyone is happy with her Vogue cover though. Some hate the idea of the seemingly contented and relieved-in-her-average-look Tina Fey submitting herself to the power of Anna Wintour.

"These women are hilarious, smart, talented AND feminists — need I remind them... Why do they feel they have to cave in to the pressures of the beauty industry despite their massive talent and star capital that got them where they are today?" says one critic who, upon seeing Tina Fey on the glossy magazine cover, declares the international sad day for women.

Grace Coddington Speaks Her Mind On Ralph Lauren Controversy

Grace Coddington speaks up on the Ralph Lauren controversy, saying she is worried about the penchant of the fashion industry for very young and very thin models.


Before she worked side by side with Anna Wintour as the creative director of Vogue, Grace Coddington was a model herself. She sympathized with Filippa Hamilton who claimed being fired by Ralph Lauren for being too fat, but her worry has been more on how today's models are getting younger and thus, more vulnerable to the pressures of the industry.

"It is a big problem. I remember when I was young, they told me that if I didn't lose weight I'd be out of the show, so I spent a week living off of coffee. But I'm a very levelheaded person. These problems nowadays are with kids much, much younger than that, and that's most of the problem — when they're very young and vulnerable."

On the other hand, the 68 year-old director believes that Ralph Lauren has been unfairly criticized for using thin models. For one, it is not only Ralph Lauren who uses thin models in fashion campaigns but most of the high-fashion designers in the industry.

"Most of his models are not super-skinny, so this is sort of an isolated situation, and I think it's unfair if he gets a lot of bad publicity because of it. But it is a big problem in the fashion industry. And you go to meetings to discuss it, and you think it's kind of futile, because it's such a big thing, and in the end, people are always asking for more and they're always asking for thinner."

So how do Grace Coddington and the people in the industry address this issue? Will they now stop using skinny models in fashion campaigns and replace them with women of healthier sizes? Why do high-fashion photo shoots choose thin models, by the way?

"They have to be a little thinner than you and I because you always photograph a little fatter, but you don't have to go to the extremes they go to. And because they're kids, they take it too far, and they can't regulate their lives, and next thing you know they're anorexic, and it is tragic.

"And I don't know what the answer is, except to keep on it, which we're all trying to do. Anna's trying to do it. Personally we're not allowed, at Vogue, to work with girls who are very thin, but you never know, because you could book them and think they're a certain size, and they turn up on the shoot and suddenly they've spun into this anorexic situation. And you're on the spot and you have to get the job done and you have one day to do it, and what do you do? But you try to be responsible, as Anna is."

We also don't know the answer Grace, except that with all these posts about weight getting too much, we might finally figure out what annoys us... when models are, in fact, meant to look better than everyone else.