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Anna Wintour has been visibly active at the US Open in New York, where she made a string of recent public appearances that now carry the most biographical weight because they show her still functioning as a high visibility fashion power broker even after stepping back from the day to day running of American Vogue. According to the US Open and Vogue social media posts, she was in the President’s Box with Serena Williams, Gayle King, Alex Eala, Eva Lys, and others for Roger Federer’s return to Arthur Ashe Stadium, and she was also seen at the welcome carpet for the Federer and Andy Roddick exhibition event.
According to the US Open coverage reported by the Philstar and related outlets, Wintour singled out Filipino tennis player Alex Eala and said she liked how young stars like Eala, Serena Williams, and Naomi Osaka use fashion to express themselves. That comment has the strongest longer term significance of the recent crop because it reinforces Wintour’s role as an arbiter who can still shape the fashion conversation simply by public praise. The same reporting says she described the overlap between sports and fashion as a wonderful marriage, which reads less like a passing compliment and more like a classic Wintour positioning move.
According to Forbes and other event coverage, she also attended the Waldorf Astoria Racquet Club Ballroom Tennis Invitational in New York on August 27, adding another high profile appearance to a very social late summer stretch. A New York Post style roundup also noted her at the US Open in a cream floral trench coat and glossy boots, which is the sort of front row sighting the fashion press loves to turn into semi mythology.
On the business and industry side, there is no verified sign in the past few days of a major new company appointment, brand launch, or formal Condé Nast shift tied directly to her. The biggest unconfirmed chatter has been social media speculation that her praise of Alex Eala could be connected to a Vogue cover or another Condé Nast project, but that remains unverified and should be treated as rumor only.
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