From OG editor Kelly Mover: The week when spring meets fall is here: Fashion Week 2009. Anna Wintour, the ultimate fashionista and Vogue editorial guru, gives New York Magazine a different side of her contributions to the fashion world — starting in Queens, N.Y. The following is an excerpt from Amy Larocca's article and interview with Wintour; the rest can be found at the link below.

NEW YORK MAGAZINE, Sept. 4, 2009 — Eight a.m. on a Monday, and Anna Wintour is wearing an A-line Oscar de la Renta skirt made up of overlapping Kelly-green strips of ribbon, a ribbed white T-shirt, and a tiny green Marni cardigan with purple trim. The logo on the extremely grande Starbucks cup she’s gulping from matches the whole thing perfectly—an accident, obviously, but then everything is so precise it’s hard not to give her credit. Her hair is in its typical formation, her sunglasses are on, and a black sedan is idling outside her Greenwich Village townhouse.

Time, then, for a trip to Queens, to help save global fashion.

“During the couture shows in February there was a lot of discussion about the lack of traffic in the stores,” Wintour says. “A lot of people were complaining, but people weren’t really doing anything about it.”

So Wintour, who doesn’t do much actual shopping herself — “I get a few key pieces each season and wear them a lot” — hatched a plan. She assembled the editors-in-chief of the international editions of Vogue and some Condé Nast execs, and decided that Thursday, Sept. 10, would be Fashion’s Night Out: Stores worldwide would stay open late and perhaps even invite famous people and serve cocktails, and the retail world would get a nice, much-needed booster shot.

Back in New York, Wintour teamed up with Diane Von Furstenberg, president of the CFDA; together they visited Mayor Bloomberg, who liked the idea but was anxious that the occasion not smack of elitism.

“That’s,” Wintour says in a singsong, “why we’re going to Queens.” She will kick the night off at the Macy’s in Elmhurst, accompanied by Michael Kors and the singing, dancing cast of Hair. So she’s making this early-morning visit to make sure everything there will be as Vogue as possible on the big evening. “I’m not going to be spending the whole night in Queens,” she adds—her plan on the 10th is to visit a few of the 800 or so stores that are staying open till 11 p.m. “And I do plan to shop.”

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