Vogue editor Anna Wintour’s dress sense dissed by Time magazine

Fashion's Queen Bee Anna Wintour is having a rough old time of it. As reported here, speculation about her being ousted as editor-in-chief of US Vogue, a job she has held for the last 20 years, has become a staple among fashionistas, although informed opinion suggests that she will not step down until next year when she turns 60.

That must be vexing enough, but nothing compared with the outrage of Time magazine calling her legendary exquisite dress sense into question. In its current issue, Time places a sequined, seahorse-style Karl Lagerfeld creation (pictured) she wore in May – otherwise known as her Princess Leia moment – at number one in a top ten list of the year’s "worst fashion faux pas".

The dress was ridiculed by many observers when she wore it to the Costume Institute gala in New York, but Time has dug the knife in. "When the history of modern fashion is written, this will be its Waterloo moment. The unimpeachably stylish Vogue editor Anna Wintour turns up at the premiere fashion event of the year, the Met Costume Gala, which she is hosting — it just doesn't get any better than this — in a dress that makes her look like she's encrusted with ammonoid fossils."

To be fair to Wintour, many of those who come below her in Time’s top ten look equally if not more ridiculous. They include Gwyneth Paltrow in a transparent Antonio Berardi number she wore to a Paris film premiere in November – it revealed part of her breasts and even her underwear – and Katie Holmes, aka Mrs Tom Cruise, in a silk jumpsuit at the recent opening of her Broadway play, All My Sons. In this case, there was no designer to blame – Mrs Cruise reportedly designed the outfit herself. ·