Anna Wintour
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Sharp bob with bangs and dark sunglasses, worn for decades
A uniform built from the neck up, which leaves the clothes free to change. Wintour edited Vogue from 1988 to 2025 and wore whatever the season offered, but the bob and the dark glasses stayed fixed, and those two details are what everyone recognizes in a front row. She has been candid about what the sunglasses do: in a 2019 CNN interview she called them incredibly useful because people cannot tell what she is thinking, and said they help when she is tired. That is the uniform as a working tool, giving the most watched person in fashion a way to watch the shows without being read.
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