She’s got a page boy haircut and she’s a French knight. Nope, it’s not Jean of Arc it’s Anna Wintour; the similarity ends there. Betwixt and between getting called a bitch by Gaga and attending Couture week the Editrix squeezed in time to receive the Légion d'honneur. She was appointed Chevalier (aka knight), the highest rank, and with it joins the leagues of Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfield, Nicole Fhari and Giorgio Armani.

It’s no common thing for an Ed to receive a bauble like this, so we’ll be kind enough to stop the humungous whatevs escaping our lips. Sometimes it’s nice to see people smile, sometimes it’s... not. We'd have died to see Nuclear Wintour keep her shades and impassive expression perma-fixed throughout the ceremony. Everyone from Franca Sozzani and Donatella to Alber Elbaz came to cheerlead the beaming Wintour; quite the little ball of sunshine - even as Sarkozy pierced her Chanel Contour in front of all the yawning gang.

We bet Carine Roitfield’s pissed she didn’t hold on a few more months. Obvs it’s not the first shiny badge she’s been the recipient of, but seriously, no one gives a shit about an OBE. At least now Wints' might have something besides dropping another photo shoot in place of more ad space to write about in her much-blithered-about-possible-memoirs...

Posted on July 13, 2011 at 5:49:18 by Shola Von Reynolds