Anna Wintour risks the first digital protest of her long career at Vogue. Having won it at Wired by earning higher wages and contracts, Conde Nast’s ‘rebellious’ employees are preparing to target Vogue, the crown jewel of the publishing empire. And they are preparing to do so next month to coincide with the September issue, the most important of the year, so important that it became the subject of a documentary entitled ‘September Issue’.
In recent weeks, Wired workers have threatened to block advertising links on the site and thus managed to snatch wage increases and better contracts from the top of the magazine. Now the ‘non contract, no clicks’ protest, according to rumors, is likely to reach Vogue in the realm of Anna Wintour, the over seventy year old who has been dictating the fashion line globally for years. For the fashion queen, this could be her first digital protest in her 34-year reign at Vogue.
A protest, a sign of changing times also for Wintour, already last year forced to deal with the picket line of hundreds of workers from the New Yorker – the only Conde Nast newspaper that does not respond to the “queen of fashion” – in front of the his home in New York. “The Devil wears Prada, but to the workers nada” was the slogan of the employees of the most intellectual weekly in America to ask for more adequate wages.
An event, as well as the criticism for the lack of diversity, which has not had the power to affect the prestige of Wintour and its unstoppable rise that sees her responsible for worldwide content and global director of “Vogue”. In fact, you have the last word on what is written in over thirty markets around the world.
That a digital protest could also reach Vogue has been in the air for some time, since the shadow of the union began to hover over the magazine. In fact, only a few months ago, rumors of a possible organization of employees to be represented by the experts of the News Guild, the union to which the staff of other large journalistic organizations belong. All great maneuvers that for now slide on the undisputed queen of fashion immortalized in several films and a source of inspiration and a Met Gala that every year is the envy of Hollywood. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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