This definitive and "fascinating portrait of the secretive queen of fashion" (Andrew Morton,  New York Times  bestselling author) follows Anna Wintour's steep and ambitious climb to become one of the most powerful people in the media.

As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no apparent interest in clothing, but, seduced by the miniskirts and bob haircuts of swinging 1960s London, she grew into a fashion-obsessed teenager. Her father, an influential newspaper editor, loomed large in her life, and once he decided she should become editor-in-chief of  Vogue , she never looked back.

Impatient to start her career, she left high school and got a job at a trendy boutique in London - an experience that would be the first of many defeats. Undeterred, she found work in the competitive world of magazines, eventually embarking on a journey to New York and a battle to ascend, no matter who or what stood in her way. Once she was crowned editor-in-chief of  Vogue - in one of the stormiest transitions in fashion magazine history - she continued the fight to retain her enviable position, ultimately rising to dominate all of Conde Nast.

"Extraordinarily sweeping, astute, and unputdownable" (Sheila Weller,  New York Times  bestselling author) and based on extensive interviews with Anna Wintour's closest friends and collaborators, journalist Amy Odell crafts the most revealing portrait of Wintour ever published. Weaving Anna's personal story into a larger narrative about the hierarchical dynamics of the fashion industry and the complex world of Conde Nast,  Anna  charts the relentless ambition of the woman who would become an icon.