Anna Wintour slammed for carrying her SUNGLASSES whereas shedding employees

Anna Wintour was reportedly sporting her signature shades as she laid off almost half of her total employees who labored on the music journal Pitchfork. 

The 74-year-old Vogue editor-in-chief was slammed on-line by her now former workers, who referred to as the transfer indecent and appalling.

‘One completely bizarro element from this week is that Anna Wintour — seated indoors at a convention desk — didn’t take away her sun shades whereas she was telling us that we have been about to get canned,’ Allison Hussey, a former Pitchfork employees author, wrote on X. 

‘The indecency we have seen from higher administration this week is appalling.’ 

The tweet, posted Friday morning, has already reached almost 300K views on-line and a whole lot of retweets. 

Conde Nast laid off upwards of half of the Pitchfork employees on Wednesday, together with editor-in-chief Puja Patel and options editor Jill Mapes. 

Stay inside! Anna Wintour shared a photograph of herself staying inside her Long Island house and urged different to not exit

Condé Nast, who purchased Pitchfork in 2015, is merging the publication into GQ.  

The firm introduced the transfer in a memo to workers, 

The resolution ‘was made after a cautious analysis of Pitchfork’s efficiency and what we consider is the perfect path ahead for the model in order that our protection of music can proceed to thrive inside the firm,’ Wintour, Condé Nast’s chief content material officer and international editorial director of Vogue, wrote in a memo to employees. 

Mapes, a characteristic editor who was laid off, said on Twitter: ‘I’ve referred to my job at pitchfork as being on a ferris wheel at closing time, simply ready for them to yank me down.    

‘After almost 8 years, mass layoffs obtained me. glad we might spend that point making an attempt to make it a much less dude-ish place only for GQ to finish up on the helm,’ Mapes added. 

The ‘trend legend’ Wintour is thought for by no means taking off her trademark sun shades. 

Magazine writer Condé Nast, which owns Vogue, GQ and The New Yorker, is shedding almost 100 workers within the US on account of a pointy decline in advert income spurred by the coronavirus pandemic

As effectively as carrying them within the Vogue places of work, she is often seen sporting them on the catwalk, and even watched the whole Academy Awards in 2015 with out taking them off.

She additionally donned her signature specs whereas working from house at her Hamptons home in 2020 – as she pleads with others to not exit amid COVID-19 outbreak. 

One of the one instances Wintour, who has labored for Vogue for 30 years, has been seen taking them off is when she was made a Dame at Buckingham Palace in 2017.

She wore her trademark sun shades on arrival on the Palace, however eliminated them earlier than getting into the ballroom, the place she acquired the award from the Queen.

During her ’60 minutes with Anna Wintour’ interview, the American editor admitted she used her sun shades as ‘armour’, and so they have been a useful gizmo to ‘conceal boredom’.

‘I can sit in a present and if I’m bored out of my thoughts, no person will discover… At this level, they’ve turn into, actually, armour’, she stated in 2012.

She stated: ‘There isn’t any extra essential rule for all of us to observe. We should, proper this second, pledge to remain in our properties as a lot as we probably can’

Wintour has served as editor-in-chief of Vogue since 1988.

In 2020, Magazine writer Condé Nast, which owns Vogue, GQ and The New Yorker, was beneath fireplace when it laid off almost 100 workers within the US on account of a pointy decline in advert income spurred by the coronavirus pandemic.

The cuts have been introduced in an inner memo that additionally stated beneath 100 different staffers could be briefly furloughed and ‘a handful’ of the corporate’s approximate 2,700 staffers would have decreased work schedules.

‘Not all groups might be impacted equally by these actions. That doesn’t suggest some groups are extra priceless to us than others,’ Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch stated on the time. ‘We tried to determine particular areas the place we might convey down our prices with out limiting our progress priorities.’

Also that 12 months, Condé Nast introduced in a separate memo that workers incomes greater than $100,000 would obtain 10 to twenty p.c pay cuts.

‘These selections are by no means simple, and never one thing I ever take frivolously. I wish to be clear concerning the rules and method we used,’ Lynch added.

Dailymail.com has contacted Conde Nast however didn’t obtain a response.