Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour dons her signature sunglasses while working from home at her Hamptons house – as she pleads with others not to go out amid COVID-19 outbreak
- Wintour, 70, is staying at her home on Long Island as New Yorkers are urged to shelter in place
- She has asked others to pledge to stay in their homes as well
- Earlier this week, it was announced that the annual Met Gala has been cancelled
- It was set to take place in May but was called off after the museum closed
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Days after she announced that this year’s Met Gala is cancelled, Anna Wintour has shared a snapshot of herself working from home during the coronavirus pandemic.
On Friday, the 70-year-old Vogue editor-in-chief shared a photo from the official Vogue Instagram account, showing herself lounging in a chair inside her Hamptons home — in sunglasses, of course.
‘Like so many of you, I have been adjusting to reality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Above all else, I have been doing one simple thing, and I urge everyone to do the same: I have been staying at home.,’ she wrote.
Stay inside! Anna Wintour shared a photo of herself staying inside her Long Island home and urged other not to go out
She continued: ‘There is no more important rule for all of us to follow. We must, right this moment, pledge to stay in our homes as much as we possibly can.
‘There are, of course, health workers, emergency-response personnel, grocery store employees and others whose essential jobs we depend on. And they must go out to perform these life-saving tasks.
‘For the rest of us, there is no debate or discussion. We must stay in our homes. That is the only way to slow the spread of the coronavirus, and to protect those who are most vulnerable to it.
‘So join me in a pledge that all of us at @voguemagazine are making today: #stayhome. There is no more valuable action you can take. We encourage you to share your own promise and comment below with a [rose emoji] to pledge to #stayhome too.’
Alongside the message, she included a rare smiling photo of herself in a chunky ivory sweater, black scarf, and dark shades inside her home.
She said: ‘There is no more important rule for all of us to follow. We must, right this moment, pledge to stay in our homes as much as we possibly can’
While the editor owns a place in Manhattan, she appears to have dashed off to her bigger home in Mastic, Long Island.
According to Cafe Design, the house was built in 1820 and decorated by Carrier & Company.
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She reportedly paid just $350,000 for the 5.9 acre property with four bedrooms and waterfront access back in 2013.
Just days ago, one of Wintour’s biggest projects — the Met Gala — was cancelled due to the coronavirus.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the glitzy event is held every year, made the call after being closed by New York City.
This is the first time that the event — for which tickets can cost up to $35,000 per person — has been called off in the 22 years that Vogue editor-in-chief Wintour has chaired it, a job that she took on back in 1995 when she made her debut as the hostess of the star-studded party.
According to Vogue.com, an email sent out to staff members on Monday afternoon stated that any and all ‘programs and events’ due to be held by or at the Met through May 15 had been ‘canceled or postponed,’ ‘in deference’ to CDC guidance that all gatherings of more than 50 people should be called off.
The party was set to celebrated an exhibition with the theme ‘About Time: Fashion and Duration,’ which would have featured 160 pieces of women’s fashion from the last 150 years.