daughter of charles wintour, editor of the london evening standard.e was a tough-minded intellectual. anna dropped out of high school at 16. >> i wasn't academically successful, and maybe i've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that. >> your father, who i knew only slightly in england, had a tough reputation... >> yes, chilly charlie. >> not unlike yours. and his reporters were scared of him. >> yes, but look what he created. i mean, he created a great newspaper, and i certainly did learn this from him: people respond well to someone who's sure of what they want. >> and anna wintour is nothing but sure. that's most apparent when twice a year, her majesty takes her place at the ready-to-wear fashion shows in new york, paris, and milan, where she sits in judgment of the work of the world's most eminent designers. to an outsider, these shows are another planet: part dazzling, part rocky horror show, models who seem as angry as they are emaciated, wearing clothes fit for a cadaver and shoes that make stilettos seem sensible, and a legion of ca