Thread by @artisbrutal2021

Dame Anna Wintour has served as editor-in-Chief of Vogue since 1988 and Global Chief Content Officer for Condé Nast since 2020..

Here with Damien Hirst and Bono at the Gagosian Gallery on February 13, 2008

Damien Hirst? Ukraine thread, also featuring Victor Pinchuk

Anna Wintour is also the artistic director of Condé Nast and the Global Editorial Director of Vogue

Here at Vogue Italia

vogue.it/vogue-talents/…

Vogue Italia??

Sabine Heller - Editor at large - Vogue Italia + Purple mag

Leads right back to that Pinchuk thread and the Cameron/Sunak connections at Illumina
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Vogue Italia also takes us to the heart of London, the Eliasch family [close to Prince Andrew] and Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic, of course, known to occasionally hang out on Necker Island with Richard Branson

"Anna Wintour with Stephen Schwarzman , Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan, Donatella Versace, Amal Clooney "

Stephen Schwarzman , Ghislaine Maxwell's friend - for those at the back of the class..

Let's not leave Conde Nast out.. they really require their own thread tho..

"Baku Magazine published by Condé Nast in London on behalf of Leyla Aliyeva , first daughter of the President of Azerbaijan"

'THEY' are laughing at you..

"[Anna Wintour's] father, Charles Wintour, Editor of the London Evening Standard (1959–1976), consulted her on how to make the newspaper relevant to the youth of the era. "
- Wikipedia 🙄

"After Cambridge, Charles Wintour took a London job in advertising, but left at the start of World War II to join the Royal Norfolk Regiment. During the war, he was awarded the military MBE, the Croix de Guerre and the Bronze Star."

archive.ph/GuqCZ

"After his second stint as the Standard’s editor, Wintour had several jobs in and around Fleet Street: as managing director of the Daily Express, editor of the Sunday Express Magazine.. & editorial consultant to Robert Maxwell’s London Daily News" 👀

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"he had hoped to become editor of The Times, but although he [was] described ..as “the most impressive” of the outside contenders, he paid the price of being too closely associated with the anti-European stand of what were til then Beaverbrook Newspapers"
47shoelane.wordpress.com/editors/theme3/

In his retirement, Charles Wintour continued to pursue his interests in the arts and politics and still visited London frequently to lunch with old friends at the Garrick Club.

Originally joining the The Royal Norfolk Regiment, Wintour was soon plucked out to join the staff. He had a distinguished war record, winning the French Croix de Guerre, .. Bronze Star, & ending up at General Eisenhower’s headquarters at SHAEF in Paris"

Maj. Charles Winour in the book: "A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950"
By Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.)

> Bill Casey?

Bill Casey? SHAEF? The OSS?

Are we back to the CIA again? Just spitballing..

William Casey > Bertelsmann

"Inspired improvisation: William Casey and the penetration of Germany"
by B. Nelson MacPherson

[Klaus Schwab at #WEF likes to 'penetrate' countries' leadership too, doesn't he?]

tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Whenever there's a Bertelmann about, Berggruen is not far behind..

> Nicolas Berggruen , Claudia Schiffer, Klaus Wowereit Vogue Fashion's Night out at KaDeWe department store Berlin, Germany - 09.09.10

Wait..

Wasn't Claudia Schiffer once, weirdly, confirmed bachelor David Copperfield's girlfriend?

Oh.. let's not go there today..

"Charles Wintour with his stable of stars in 1973 marking the retirement of celebrated reporter Anne Sharpley with a party at the Hyde Park Hotel: front row sees Ronnie Hyde, Max Aitken (prop), Charles, Anne Sharpley, Suzy Menkes, Alex Walker; second row, Valerie Grove,

Roy Wright, Jak, Mary Kenny, David Henshall; back row, Stuart Kuttner, Tom Pocock, Brian Nicholson, Simon Jenkins, Derek Darby, Sam White, Carolyn Mulcahy, (A N Other?), Jeremy Deedes, Robert Carvel, Milton Shulman, Angus McGill"

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