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Anna Wintour Thinks Powerful Women Who ‘Look Good and Enjoy Fashion’ Get ‘Unfairly Criticized’

Celebrities attend the 'Vogue Fashion Fund Who Is On Next?' party, at Palazzo Morando during Fashion Week in Milan, Italy.
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Anna Wintour tells The Wall Street Journal, "When women are in positions of power, and they’re featured in a women’s magazine like Vogue … they tend to be incredibly unfairly criticized. It’s an incredibly old-fashioned approach. Just because you’re in a position of power, and you look good and you enjoy fashion — does that mean you’re an idiot, or that it’s not seemly to be in a woman’s magazine? If a man is in GQ, they don’t get the same kind of criticism."

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