Anna's human elevators
Vogue editor Anna Wintour will be throwing some serious stink eye in Tim Gunn's direction this fall at Fashion Week. The silver-haired "Project Runway" mentor is spilling the beans on Wintour and her Vogue clique in his forth-coming book "Gunn's Golden Rules," and the stories are... strange. He writes that he saw Anna engaged in a full-on Whitney Houston, "Bodyguard"-esque moment:
"I was with a colleague from Parsons, and we had been discussing the will-she-or-won't-she-take-the-elevator question, so we ran over to the elevator bay to see if Anna would deign to get on. She wasn't there. Then we looked over the stairway railing. And what did we see but Anna being carried down the stairs. The bodyguards had made a fireman's lock and were racing her from landing to landing. She was sitting on their crossed arms.. I ran to the window to see if they would put her down on the sidewalk or carry her to the car like that. They carried her to the car. And I thought: I will never forget this."
No word if Anna burst into a chorus of "I Will Always Love You" during this touching moment.
The beloved Gunn claims he once saw André Leon Talley in similarly odd situation:
"When we return to the green room, we see that someone has spread a translucent barber's bib over Andre and he's reclining, his arms at his sides. He's being fed grapes and cubes of cheese one by one, like a bird in a nest."
If Andre is hiring any grape and cheese boys, we're available for the position.
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Hayley Kaufman is editor of the Style section.
Rachel Raczka (@rachelraczka) is the lifestyle producer for Boston.com.







