Star System
14 years ago by
You recognize her, don’t you? It’s Anna Dello Russo, style icon to the extreme – here, in a Rochas jump suit and Valentino shoes (I have the same ones!!!) -, eccentric, adorable, appeared on The Sartorialist for the first time in 2006 and since became a fashion superstar via the internet.
And now, she’s got a blog, she bbms, she tweets, responds to 15,000 interviews at the same time, she is premiering her own perfume line and she has so much fun with this whole new starlet career that we’ve given her.
And I can’t help but love it.
I love that she has so much fun with everything, that she excercises for two hours every day and changes outfits three times daily just to satisfy her adoring public, that she’ll strike a pose and do it 50 times over (or 60, if you just ask her) in front of the streetstyle photographers who are all waiting for her and only her outside of the shows, that she always comes back and says thank you when you publish a photo of her, and she doesn’t walk away from fun. That she is never, ever, ever a snob.
So Anna… Post a comment !?
Translation : Tim Sullivan
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Aujourd’hui est un grand jour, j’ai assisté au moment ou l’article tant attendu apparait sur la page.
Halelujah. C’est une jolie journée qui commence.
Merci Garance!
Anna is FAB!! Her style and personality is infectious…she is always smiling and oozes ‘Joie de vivre’ (is that how you say it?? LOL)
Anna’s blog sums up her style in a nutshell: I don’t want to be cool, I want to be fashion!! Yes indeed!
For those who have asked her blog = http://www.annadellorusso.com/
Bisous xx
J’aime aussi beaucoup cette vision décomplexée de la starlette,
elle est tres belle, Anna, la photo, l’article.
Bonne journée Garance!
Bon je ne suis pas Anna mais effectivement tout ce que tu décris est vraiment drôle.
Btw j’aime beaucoup la perspective de ta photo !
Beautiful. Only Anna could pull this off, I think!
http://annaofgreengables.blogspot.com/
C’est vrai qu’elle semble très avenante et cordiale.
Sur la plupart des photos d’elle, on la voit sourire, c’est plus agréable que les mannequins qui prennent la pose comme sur leur shopping en tirant la tronche (attention, je ne dis pas que tous les mannequins le font, juste que je n’aime pas celles dont c’est le cas).
Mais, à part être officiellement une fashionista, la mode n’est pas son métier?
Bises
Mais Anna dello Russo est quand même avant tout redac chef du vogue japan si je ne me trompe pas! comme elle le dit elle même “thanks god glamour is back” et j’ajouterai pour elle “eccentricity”.
Garance, votre esprit rigolo, pointu est une régal.
décidément, apres le portrait de Kate Moss, encore un super portrait
J’aime ta photo, Garance.
Anna, qu’elle n’en revienne pas encore, qu’elle prend la peine de remercier et qu’elle ne boude pas son plaisir de ce succès, c’est bien le propre des gens qui ont travaillé, travaillé, carburé et qui y ont pris plaisir. Non ? J’admire et j’aspire à ce genre de succès.
Btw, pourrait-on avoir un close-up sur le sac ? C’est quoi ? écaille-nacre ?
Bonnne journée
That’s class. And grace.
Ana Dello Russo, c’est notre Madame Plus de la mode.
Je ne pourrais jamais porter les mêmes tenues, mais ça me fascine qu’elle l’ose. Je pense que si ses excentricités me plaisent autant, c’est grâce à tout l’humour qui s’en dégage.
http://www.the-working-girl.com
I’ve never seen a jumpsuit look so elegant!
She is a style icon that the general fashion public would not have been likely to see but 10 years ago. Thanks for bringing images of this gorgeous and oh-so-fab woman to this readership’s eyes Garance.
She really is amazing, and she’s made for this superstar status that she’s now attained in the fashion world. She’s so much fun and so genuinely loves fashion.
Alexandra xo
http://tovogueorbust.blogspot.com/
c’est quoi son blog?
Beautiful picture as usual, Garance!
And beautiful article, too! It’s always nice to hear what your ideas are..
Vikki
http://stylometre.blogspot.com
très belle photo
un peu kitch ?
bisous,
anne
http://melledubndidu.over-blog.com/
Anna est fascinante… même de loin, au travers d’un écran.
Elle n’est pas à la mode, elle joue avec les vêtements et quels vêtements ! Ils la subliment et la protègent à la fois.
Cette combinaison couleur de soleil assortie de pilotes et elle mixe Peau d’Âne avec Top Gun,
magicienne de l’impossible, excentrique.
Bravo Madame !
Et merci Garance ;)
Bisous
Anne
Anna is just so fabulous!
She is what fashion is all about-she has fun with it and really embraces it as well as her crazy busy life! Good on you Anna!
Patisserir Coeur
http://www.fromvictoriawithlove.blogspot.com/
et bien je ne la connaissais pas du tout!
et il en faut pour être aussi classe avec une tenue si risquée…
chapeau!
céline
Elle est très classe et a l’air très occupée…
Bonne journée!
Les Soeurettes Dalyne
http://lessoeurettesdalyne.over-blog.com/
Bon je ne suis pas Anna, mais un petit com’ pour te dire que ta photo est vraiment trop jolie. Elle est quand même sacrément superbe, Anna…
Hier Kate Moss, aujourd’hui Anna, demain qui ? ;)
Bises!
Quelle photo magnifique ! Elle a compris que les gens ont besoin de folie. Elle joue son rôle à ravir !
she’s always over the top!! im impressed
check out my fashion blog at http://thetalesofselfindulgence.blogspot.com
ADR!
I really love her style and I find her blog so inspiring! I always wonder how some people cram so much activity into one day and she always looks flawless.
Misère… quelle LIGNE !!! Wow…
(je me rappellerai tjr ta visite dans son appartement, je ne la connaissais pas, je me demandais qui elle était, mais j’étais impressionnée ça oui…)
what a lovely post! never thought about all the effort and work behind her “stardom” and that she actually “owes” it to you streetstyle bloggers! i admire her (for her style but even more) for her passion for what she’s doing and that she’s obviously very nice and polite.
… and of course: what an outfit! and what a cool picture of her! :)
What a GORGEOUS suit! Garance, you need to tell us the name of her blog so we can follow!
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VIVE ANNA!!!
She sounds awesome! So refreshing to hear that she is never a snob. She looks so good that I might start exercising twice a day!
J’adore Anna Dello Russo, elle est juste géniale et savoir que son savoir-vivre et aussi que son savoir-faire me donne une image encore plus positive de cette femme! Quel talent, quelle classe !
Cette combinaison est juste magnifique… C’est sur qu’avec 2 heures d’exercice par jour, elle ne peuvent que se sublimer mutuellement !
Bravo Anna, vous rendez fière l’Italie et j’espère qu’elle vous le rend bien!
Merci à toi Garance de mettre à l’honneur des personnes aussi belles intérieurement et extérieurement, of course :-)
She is so at ease with herself, to me that is a happy perfection.
HaHa cute post and great pic! :)
xxx
http://gypsy-diaries.blogspot.com/
Jolis, ses cadres dorés. Un hommage à toi peut-être ?
I really do admire her. Fearlessly fashionable, yet she seems so down-to-earth. I’d love to meet her one day. She’s the sort of person whom you’d love to have around for her infectious, boundless life energy.
xx
Michelle
http://whoisbobbparris.blogspot.com/
Bonjour Garance,
Elle n’en fini pas de nous épater à tous Anna dello Russo!
Je me souviens de tes premiers posts sur elle, notamment de ton billet rdv haute-joaillerie avec elle au Ritz, fascinant … et de puis boom sur boom ;-)
Cette fashion week parisienne s’annonce spécialement géniale!
Sylvia x
Elle doute de rien et c’est ça qui la rend exceptionnelle…
Très belle sur cette photo..! ;))
http://deshistoiresdepieds.blogspot.com
Elle a un petit (ou gros…) côté “Carry Bradshaw”, non?
Amazing ADR photo!
She does fell like she is really kind and gracious. She is constantly smiling.
I admire her courage and the way she has fun with clothes.
http://lhabitue.blogspot.com/
I think she is great!i mean she so stylish and glamorous. She is definitely my inspiration, she is Italian, a fashion addict and works for Vogue Japan…just a dream!
nice pic by the way
she looks so elegant!!
xx
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Elle est géniale, je me souviens de la série de photos que tu avais publiée à son sujet, j’avais craqué pour son univers fantasque et glitter, complètement baroque. Viva Anna!
Anna has a blog?! What’s the URL? I’m sure it’s totally amazing and inspiring, how could it not be?
Gorgeous photo, Garance! Love ya’lls shoes :)
La vie est pleine de surprise! Wanna be un jour, Rédactrice le surlendemain et icône le jour d’après et femme d’affaires…Et GENTILLE ET PAS BLASEE…Genre “Oué mais voilà, moi blalbalalalala moua et moua”.
Il y a des gens qui semblent extraordinaires!
J’ai essayé de photograpgier la très graphique Anna à la sortie d’un défilé…Mais on était nombreux sur THE SHOOT de la life d’un fashion blooger…Un coup de coude malheureux (Mouéé mon oeil) et je fus éjecté de la mélée, le temps d’interpeller le coupable de lui exprimer mon point de vue 0_°, je me retourne enfin prête à faire la photo of THE MONTH et la belle avait déja disparu…
Peut-être réussirais-je cette semaine et par la même occasion à vous photographier aussi;)
She’s a role model for every fashionista!
Such a great talent and such a fierce woman…love her!
What I appreciate the most is that she’s very open-minded, that’s why she’s so capable and nice to everyone.
eli
http://www.eli-a-porter.blogspot.com
Anna a un blog ?? Quelle est son adresse please Garance ?
Cette photo est magnifique, et tout ce que tu dis à son sujet était très bien ressorti dans la petite vidéo que tu avais posté il y a quelques semaines ! xoxo
http://elleandco.blogspot.com
C’est vrai qu’elle est fascinante. Mais moi je me demande bien comment elle peut faire tout ça!! Vu de l’extérieur, le rythme des fashions weeks me sidère! C’est la cas pour bcp de rédactrices de plus en plus demandées et convoitées. Mais comment font elles pour sourire, avoir bonne mine et être ultra-lookées pendant un mois d’affilée avec un emploi du temps pareil. Si j’y arrive 2 jours de suite, c’est un miracle!
adoring her.. she’s the real fashion rule!!!
love,
Beny Ricardo Sadewo
http://purplesnap.blogspot.com/
Amazing woman!
P.S. Love your blog,Garance!
Hmmm, I wonder how can she manage a magazine between all these changing of outfits and visit to the gym and posing for blogs wannabe????
It looks to me like Anna did cleverly built her own brand, through all of you, who are just waiting for something “out of the normal” in order to take a click!
I wonder what is she really bringing into the fashion world.
Compare her to another Anna, the Wintour one, and I think you will understand
what I mean. Wintour is ispiring, creating a change and moving fashion forward.
I am sorry, but aren’t you girls seen what the Russo is doing? just becoming another commercial brand, and using you in order to achieve it!
Please Garance & readers be a bit more critical when you see a middle age woman dressing funny……
Perhaps you are missing the point. The wonderful thing about ADR is that she has fun with fashion, she brings life back to what so many people take too seriously. She is outrageous and that is so refreshing after years of sour-faced expressionless Anna Wintour. Also, perhaps you should take a look at Vogue Nippon – the styling is amazing, the shoots are original and she is definitely offering something inspiring, creative, and inventive.
Hi Garance, this is Anna, thank you soooooo much for posting this wonderful picture of me!…
Did you fall from your chair? No? The photo is so beautiful, I feel like she’s teasing us (and I’m certainly following her tweets :-).
I love Anna!
Fashion superstar she is alway exciting to look out and you can tell how much fun she has dressing up. A lady that is super comfortable in her own skin.
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J’aime beaucoup l’idée de “modeuse de l’extrême” ! Ce qu’il y a de plus frappant dans les tenues d’Anna Dello Russo, ce sont les épaules : toujours larges & fortes.
http://davidikus.blogspot.com/
j l’ai déjà aperçu a qqes défilés l’année dernière , et c’est vrai qu’elle respirait la joie de vivre et la bonne humeur !
et la photo, j’adore !
d’ailleurs, elle a été prise ou, car le lieu à l’air incroyable?
She is a star..and so are you Garance with your subtle shades in the backdrop matching her beautiful suit.
Yey! Anna! It’s always so great when people are stylish and famous but so nice about it!
Wow. This is the best use of her long, long legs!
awesome pic, great job! wow!
http://www.abitoffashion.com
Salut Garance!
Autant Kate Moss, dont tu parlais hier, ne m’inspire pas -pourtant c’est une “superstar”…autant Anna star du net, m’inspire beaucoup! Elle semble…libre! La première que je l’ai vu, c’était sur un post que tu lui consacrais, tu l’avais shootée dans un grand hôtel… et je me suis dit “WTF!”. Elle AIME la mode, s’habille comme elle veut, faisant fi de ce que pensent les autres, ces excentricités me font toujours sourire, elle ose! j’aime vraiment ça et en plus elle sait être reconnaissante…cette femme m’inspire :)
Merci G! xx
P.S: comment trouve-telle le temps de faire 2 heures d’exercice par jour?!!
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she is amazing as she does what u do as well.bringing high fashion closer to all these people who are no in touch with it on daily basis.and she does it with her own charm .i dont know is it her attitude smile, glow or everything together but designer clothes look better on her than on catwalk.amazing inspring woman.i adore u both
I love Anna, she is such great fun. Her blog is hilarious – I love the gold frames round all the pictures – it’s soooo her. Oh to live in your world and get to work with all these people!
Je ne connaissais pas ANNA.
Quel style et quelle tenue!
Je crois que je vais aller faire un tour sur son blog.
Cette fille m’intrigue!
La grande classe !
http://elzasokolovski.blogspot.com/
Here is ADR’s blog: http://www.annadellorusso.com/
Beautifully composed photo, Garance. While I often think Anna looks too “as seen on the runway” or over-accessorized, I love her joie de vivre that has her dressing for a fabulous cocktail party, no matter what time of day! Howver, between all the exercising and putting on clothes, I hope she makes time to eat. Many recent photos have her looking gaunt and emaciated. (And thus much older than her true age.)
Glad to hear she’s as much fun in person as she is in photos.
beautiful photo and beautiful jumpsuit. I also didn´t know, that she has a blog, I hope I can google it.
I love that she don´t take it that serious (if 2 hours of workout a days isn´t serious enough:), she has the essential sense of humor for this whole fashion circus and the pictures show that she enjoyes every second of her life.
But was she not the same person before you, street photographer “discovered her and made a starlet of her”? Did she changed her clothes only once a day before you came?
C’est son côté “je me prend pas la tête” qui la rend WAW + cette audace de style.
Des mélanges et des trouvailles peu probables mais qui ne lui vont qu’à elle!
Bravo, on en oublie son âge !
Ana : fonce!
PS: Garance, tes pics sur style.com sur la fashion week … TOPISSIME, du grand art comme d’habs
Ce qui me plait aussi c’est qu’une femme de près de 50 ans (c’est cela non ?) devienne une îcone de mode… comme quoi on est pas tant dans le jeunisme que ça…
hi Garance.. why you have removed your archives of past blogs? It will no longer show up and I like to look back at them. Please return them!
Thanks, and love your work, keep doing what you do. Your thoughts are funny and interesting
Anna has such a great sense of style.
Alice.
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Yes. SO amazing.
mais ouis mais oui on la connait grace a ton blog
http://www.funnysunnysunday.blogspot.com
Great photo, the background blending with the outfit, complimenting her and making her stand-out at the same time. And yes, she is amazing, just how she has so much fun with fashion and clothes. Never disappointing every time she appears!
Even here with a more toned-down ensemble then the usual, very beautiful and elegant.
Anna si tu passes par là ,sache que tu es une grande inspiration en ce qui concerne le hot too much.
J’adore ! Elle a un style vraiment parfait !
Bisous
WHAT A BRILLIANT PHOTO! I had to say that in all caps so you can see how much I LOVE IT!
Love her =D And this picture!
Beautiful photo! Love ADR’s panache for having fun with her clothes and taking risks…2 hours of exercise?!? Sacre bleu! I cannot even muster 2 minutes a day!
I think that this woman is the definition of style.She is not afraid to try something new on, even if it is not ‘in fashion’..She actually makes fashion.
And on top of that she is not snob. What more can someone ask for?
Thank you Garance for the inspiring photo!
i do not really know of this woman except through blogs from you and a few others but i feel like i know a little more today…. but what is amazing is your stunning photography so subtle and beautiful x
and is that 2 hours a day…. every day?
Cette photo est fantastique ! Elle provoque le doux vertige de la rencontre amoureuse.
Hi Garance,
Do not forget that you all become famous by posting her pictures, not only she got famous because of you (you I mean the street bloggers in general).
The Sartorialist would have not become what is today without shoots from Anna, Giovanna and all the others….
Said that, I love your blog, keep up with the good job.
Alessandra
Elle est extra. Elle a un sens de la dérision complètement italien. Elle et ses assistantes…je les adore !
She is one bloody amazing woman. Love her. Xxxx
she is amazing, i love her style always!
http://angystearoom.blogspot.com
les lunettes sont superbess et que dire de l’ensemble fleurie qui est MA-GNI-FIQUE !!!!!!
Je l’adore cette fille ! :)
I like that she is so down to earth!
sweet angle on the shot.
this jump suit is killer!
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J’adore Anna! Her style is impeccable and quite surprising at times :) So glad we saw you in Atlanta! Come back soon…
I actually like this photo of Anna. I usually don’t like her outfits.
Alessandra, the Sartorialist would have been just as successful without ever featuring a photo of Anna. That blog made her a star. I’m sure she knows and appreciates it.
Anna Dello Russo is awesome! Her outfits are so playful and cute and I always enjoy seeing photos of her. It’s nice to see that someone who gets so much press is so down to earth.
http://www.theafeminada.blogspot.com
Très Carrie Brabshaw sur cette photo!
Ton blog est super!
“…she has so much fun with this whole new starlet career that we’ve given her.”
Excuse me, but Anna spent 18 years at Conde Nast Italia starting as a Fashion Editor at Vogue Italia she went on to become Editor of L’Uomo Vogue from 2000-2006.
It’s because she let you take her photo that you have become well known, not the other way around.
Normally you aren’t so arrogant…
i’m in love with her…
Jadoooooooooore Anna, elle a son style à elle, très très osé, mais ca lui va si bien!
I really LOVE her and her style, she is such a wonderful person and I love the fact that she is very nice with photographers and bloggers….
LOVE YOU ANNA
Thanks Garance
P.S. Wonderful photo
love it !
she’s ALWAYS stunning.
i adore adr!!! what a gorgeous outfit…
I love your blog! Your entries are always a delight to read xxx
http://reallyliteral.blogspot.com/
To Hanna :
There is a MISTAKE in the Tim Sullivan’s translation :
« …she has so much fun with this whole new starlet career that we’ve given her. »
The french version has a entire different meaning !! This means :
“she has so much fun with this whole new starlet career which is opening un front of her”
So you see, there is nothing arrogant here … just misunderstanding ;-)
amazing. i love everything here,
she’s really an interesting and inriguing woman.
Great, Garance. Thanks. Very good photo, a warm text about “succes woman”, editor and “how to be” succesful and not snobbish and not to blow a cold into a people…Congratulations.
i’m glad that we can celebrate diverse fashion choices and the stylistic bravery of women…
but Anna Della Russo is not an image we should be buying into. the images of youth in the fashion industry are bad enough; we don’t need to glorify an 80 lb adult woman with an apparent penchant for botox.
i think it’s fantastic to acknowledge that she works out ‘two hours a day’, but, i’m sorry, a strong body is one with shapely curves; a body like that is the product of starvation.
(i LOVE fashion, and love your blog, but, as a dancer, a fitness professional, and a high school teacher, i can in no way condone her celebrity status.)
tsk, tsk Tim. All of us a twitter over a simple error in translation. What does it matter though. We’re all still slaves to both blogs (and now probably Anna’s) and isn’t the world better for it?
HA HA HAAAAAAAA !!!
Capté !…. ;-)
http://www.annadellorusso.com/2010/10/star-system.html
I love her attitude and zest for life/fashion. She does not take herself too seriously and she is one of the lucky ones that has found her passion and can make a living out of it.
En résumé, elle a une vie de REVE !
J’adore ses chaussures. I faudrait que tu prennes une phot de toi avec… :)
she’s too amazing
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Great photo… what an intriguing woman, and an intriguing situation :)
http://thecuratedspectacle.wordpress.com/
I iove Anna. She is fantastic!
Magnifica Anna and good photo.
I love how great she is. She responds to everyone. She has the most amazing body (2 hours a day is some dedication WHERE DOES SHE GET THE TIME!?!?!?!) She embraces fashion and has fun with it!
Je l’adore cette femme !!!!!!! Elle exerce le métier que je veux faire et en plus elle a la classe . Et c’est grâce à toi Garance que je l’ai découverte sur ton blog !!!!!!
Et j’adore ses deux assistantes surtout celle qui a toujours des lunettes Rayban et les cheveux très longs (dsl je me souvenais plus de son nom)
I <3 You Garance
Lorsque j’ai rencontré Garance,
j’ai été frappée par sa personnalité forte
enveloppé dans un esprit de douceur.
Maintenant, elle fait partie de ma famille
comme un ami très chere
que je connais depuis longtemps.”
Anna
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Wow, this is what I call fashion. Too stylish and good combination of colors. The shoes are marvelous. :))
Nice post
Anna Della Russo certainly has a fearless approach to fashion, I can´t help but adore her although I find her outfits far from becoming at times.