The Wintour Season

If you have any desire to go behind the scenes of a fashion mag, or simply want to appreciate your own boss a little more, “The September Issue” hits newsstands theaters today.

The documentary follows feared and revered Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her team through the scramble of making the magazine's September 2007 issue. Weighing in at close to five pounds (that's 840 pages), it is the largest single issue of a magazine ever published. And drastically larger than the mere 584 pages in the September 2009 issue.

A sort of Simon Cowell of the fashion world, Anna doesn’t mince words. The real-life devil clad in Prada, Anna was the inspiration for Meryl Streep’s character who tortured poor Anne Hathaway. She has become quite the personality whom everyone loves to hate.

Anna recently stepped outside the glossy walls of the magazine amongst poorly-dressed commoners to go on Letterman, where she even laughed at herself saying, "I read in The New York Times this week that I'm an ice queen, I'm the Sun King, I'm an alien fleeing from District 9 and I'm a dominatrix.”

No, she may not be nice. This is fashion. She’s the editor of VOGUE. She has stuff to do. Decisions to make. And her job is to have a critical eye and absolute certainty. No time for coddling. And, no, maybe you shouldn’t look her directly in the eyes, but that’s what the sunglasses are for.

But who can blame her for a little grumpiness. After all, her industry is in peril, and she along with many other magazine editors are concerned for their jobs. Things must be getting bad if she’s even been reduced to fetching her own coffee.

As Miranda Priestly would dismissively say, ”That’s all.”