Is Anna...Retiring??

**gulp**

The baddest chick in the game might be retiring??? No I don't mean Beyonce you guys. According to the New York Post Anna Wintour's contract at Condé Nast is about to expire and she's even considering retiring.

Anna you can't retire! Who else can take over the helms and grab fashion by the balls and say "I'm in charge!!" without so much as blinking?

She currently oversees Vogue, Teen Vogue, Men's Vogue, and Fashion Rocks...along with a gazillion other events she holds in honor of various people. But I mean times they are a rough. Fashion Rocks just went on a "hiatus for 2009" meaning they aren't gonna produce it as the supplement to the Condé Nast mags around the Fashion Rocks celebration. Men's Vogue is only going to be producing a mere two issues a year and it'll be bagged with Vogue.

So is it time she let it go? Quit while you're ahead?? Well we know that she recently turned 59 (really??) and at age 59 former Vogue editor Grace Mirabella quit. So is she following this trend?

While I have been hearing rumors of Russian Vogue editor, Aliona Doletskaya, may be the one replacing Anna I refused to believe it. But you know when you keep hearing rumor after rumor then it comes true!? I don't want this to happen. Sure Doletskaya has brought Russian Vogue into a new stratosphere but I mean does she have the fierceness that is Wintour's stare?? And I know I'm very biased but I mean who knows New York style like the most powerful woman (ok I exaggerate) in New York. Sure they're stylish but do they evoke that sense of fear into designers...that fear that if their collections suck that they KNOW that they won't be featured for the next half a year?? So each season, designers bang out these awesome collections not only for the aesthetic value but to be placed in the BOSS of all mags.

I didn't think so.

She has nurtured and brought to the limelight so many designers. And don't forget Roger Federer...I didn't even care about homeboy 'till I saw all the pics of them all up in Fashion Week two season ago.

Though this hasn't been confirmed...I'm saying it now. Anna Wintour...you will be missed.