Anna Wintour

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour arrives at LACMA 2012 Art + Film Gala at LACMA on Oct. 27, 2012, in Los Angeles.

As the woman at the helm of Vogue magazine since 1988, Anna Wintour has been praised as one of the most influential people in the fashion industry. She has also become infamous for her supposedly frosty personality; the novel (and subsequent film) "The Devil Wears Prada" is said to be based on her.

From left, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, Vogue editor Anna Wintour, photographer Annie Leibovitz, Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner and Daily Beast editor Tina Brown pose for cameras during the 2009 National Magazine Awards in New York on April 30, 2009.

Sarah Jessica Parker, left, and Anna Wintour converse in the front row before the showing of Alexander Wang's Fall 2009 collection during New York Fashion Week, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009.

Anna Wintour sits in the audience before a presidential debate between then-candidates Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008. Wintour hosted fundraisers for Obama's candidacy and, after he won the election, had first lady Michelle Obama pose for the March 2009 cover of Vogue.

Wearing her trademark sunglasses, Anna Wintour leaves at the end of the Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2009 collection presented in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008.

Tennis champion Serena Williams, left, and Vogue editor Anna Wintour pose for a picture before the Spring 2009 Zac Posen show during Fashion Week in New York, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008.

Anna Wintour sits in the front row before the presentation of Carolina Herrera's Spring 2009 collection during New York Fashion Week on Monday, Sept. 8, 2008.

Vogue editor Anna Wintour attends German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld's Fall/Winter 2008-2009 haute couture collection for Chanel, presented in Paris on Tuesday, July 1, 2008.

Anna Wintour arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala in New York on Monday, May 5, 2008.

Anna Wintour and fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier arrive at the fourth-annual Fashion Rocks concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007.

Actor Harry Connick Jr.and Vogue editor Anna Wintour, second from left, attend the Marc Jacobs show during New York Fashion Week on Monday, Feb. 5, 2007.

From left, Teen Vogue editor in chief Amy Astley, Ashley Olsen, Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour and Mary-Kate Olsen attend a party in New York on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006, in honor of the twins appearing on the cover of Teen Vogue's December-January issue.

Anna Wintour and her daughter Bee Shaffer pose for photographers at the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Monday, May 1, 2006. Wintour has two children, Bee (whose real name is Katherine) and Charles (known as Charlie), with ex-husband David Shaffer, a prominent child psychiatrist. The two divorced in 1999.

The runway is reflected in the sunglasses of Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour during the showing of the J. Mendel Spring 2006 collection on Sept. 15, 2005, during Fashion Week in New York.

Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta, right, and Anna Wintour talk to actress Nicole Kidman, left, at the women's quarterfinal match between Lindsay Davenport and Elena Dementieva at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005.

Anna Wintour sits in the front row at the Kenneth Cole Spring 2005 collection during New York Fashion Week in Bryant Park on Wednesday, September 8, 2004.

Anna Wintour arrives at the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday, April 26, 2004, in New York.

Vogue editor Anna Wintour, left, and Oprah Winfrey watch the presentation of the Spring-Summer 2003 collection of fashion designer Vera Wang, shown in New York on Friday Sept. 20, 2002.