The sunglasses also serve as armor for the fashion veteran. Anna Wintour is nothing if not blunt, but she still doesn't want the world to see if she's totally bored at a fashion show. "They are seriously useful," Wintour said of her sunglasses during a 2009 interview on 60 Minutes. "I can sit in a show and if I am bored out of my mind, nobody will notice ... At this point, they have become, really, armor" (via Business Insider).
According to Business Insider, Wintour received some flack on social media in 2018 for wearing her sunglasses when she and Queen Elizabeth II sat together in the front row at London Fashion Week. However, the outlet found an etiquette expert to weigh in and she ruled in favor of the sunglasses.
Lucy Hume, associate director of the etiquette advisory company Debrett's, explained to Business Insider that because Wintour already knows the Queen, it wasn't disrespectful to wear sunglasses as they watched the show together. "It is polite to remove sunglasses when being formally introduced to a member of the Royal Family, but in this case, Anna Wintour was not being formally introduced to The Queen, and her sunglasses are very much her trademark," Hume said. Yes, long live Anna Wintour's trademark sunglasses!
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