There’s a line from Blondie’s 1999 hit “Maria”—“She’s like a millionaire / Walking on imported air”—which ran on repeat through my brain as I read Amy Odell’s Anna: The Biography. Imported air? The longtime Vogue editor-in-chief and Condé Nast global editorial director and global chief content officer seems to exist in her own eco-system: the fame, the power, the clothes, the sunglasses, and most of all the reputation that stalks into the room before her. How did that come to be? Well, if you want answers, you won’t find them in this book.
Anna is one of the most well-known women in the world. She is deadly serious in her ambitions, and her creation of her own mythology is fascinating. She deserves a more acute analysis of her life. But perhaps she didn’t want it.
