Vogue Editors Unite In Japan For Epic Picture (PHOTO)

If "Where's Waldo?" ever published a fashion edition, we imagine it would look something like this.

Vogue editors have united in Japan this week in support of Tokyo's Fashion's Night Out, bringing all 17 international edition editors together for a rare meeting... and epic photo opportunity.

Anna Wintour sat in the center, of course, not only because she runs the Universe but also because she is the visionary and founder of Fashion's Night Out. Tokyo's version of the all-night shopping extravaganza will feature over 400 retailers and direct a portion of the evening's profits in support of earthquake victims.

Although they were in Tokyo to shop, the 17 editors may have also talked -- but only maybe, considering what Franca Sozzani once said:

Do we talk with each other? Of course we do, yet in total autonomy regarding the decisions and lines we want to follow for our magazines. Are we competitive? Yes, of course we are. And the fact that Italy is number one is great, also in consideration of how small is our country if compared to others.

But the fashion divas put competition aside and even cracked (some) smiles for the amazing picture below.

So with Anna sitting front and center, who else showed up? Let's play Name That Editor, from left to right:

Yolanda Sacristan, Spain; Kirstie Clements, Australia; Anaita Adajania, India; Christiane Arp, Germany; Angelica Cheung, China; Franca Sozzani, Italy; Mitsuko Watanabe, Japan; Anna Wintour, America; Emmanuelle Alt, France; Alexandra Shulman, Britain; Victoria Davydova, Russia; Anna Harvey, representing Brazil and Greece; Seda Domanic, Turkey; Myung Hee Lee, Korea; Rosalie Huang, Taiwan; Eva Hughes, Mexico and Latin America; and Paula Mateus, Portugal.

Can you identify the editors by face -- or by style? Check out the pic below.

Comments

[nik101]

12:14 AM on 11/07/2011

Such a boring, static photograph.

[noudidnt]

08:23 PM on 11/06/2011

Now I understand why there a too few black models in Vogue. Thank goodness for Essence.

[bertrando3]

09:53 AM on 11/06/2011

Japan is such an exciting place, I love the fact that Anna Wintour decided to go there with all of the major Vogue’s editors-in-chiefs of every country. That photo is “iconic”! Hopefully US Vogue will feature great fashion stories with Japanese clothes in their upcoming issues.

[Lynda Filler]

10:47 PM on 11/05/2011

Fashion is art. Beauty in art is personal. I love texture, feel, touching fabrics, trying on clothes. Not everything is meant for my body type nor yours. Doesn't mean we can't celebrate the success of these amazing fashion editors. Look at it this way: at least they aren't all men!

[Lacy May]

08:21 PM on 11/05/2011

"IsyFleur" is sadly right, "Vogue perpetuate­s all the worst stereotype­s about women" as do W magazine and dozens of others. I stopped buying those mag rags in my 20's as competitive athlete and fitness model (with healthy, lean feminine muscles - always digested my food!). And SO GLAD my daughter who is now that age and a life time career dancer, has never put much value in those magazines or their anorexic 16 year old models and negative (body image) advertisements! At least a few of the editors look like they aren't afraid to eat -- the rest, with Anna W. leading the pack, look hungry and MEAN!

[dblueII]

03:14 PM on 11/06/2011

Zzzzzzz.
Some of us love it.

[Lacy May]

09:47 PM on 11/06/2011

The "zzzzzs" I suppose inidicate that you're sleepy. Some people LOVE junk food too...I understand it also tends to make you sleepy! That's it!!! Sleep walking through "life" filling your head with mindless, negative, matter and you stomach with toxic waste. Happy napping dbluell.

[chuckleatlibs]

04:58 PM on 11/05/2011

It's hard to believe the woman in blue is a fashion editor, and Anna missed it big time on the shoes.

[Stand Up for your Belief]

04:45 PM on 11/05/2011

Amazing women!! Yayyy! Girl power :-)

[applesNpears]

11:58 AM on 11/05/2011

that's a lot of 1%ers.

[Banana Republic Resident]

06:55 AM on 11/05/2011

"'This... stuff'? Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select... I don't know... that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise. It's not lapis. It's actually cerulean. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent... wasn't it who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff."

Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada.

[renman2010]

09:16 AM on 11/05/2011

Gross. Yeah, the fashion industry is good at co-opting and sucking the life out of original and creative grass roots, bottom-up fashion, too. For ex., grunge fashion in the 90's - from street to JC Penney in less than 1.5 years, introduced to America via MTV. More corporate deadening of the mind, telling us what we should be excited about.

[furby6]

11:16 AM on 11/05/2011

If I want something nice to wear that fits me, I usually have to get out my sewing machine and make it myself. And cerulean doesn't work on everyone. Fashion changes to keep sales up, but fashion always goes back in time to revamp something already designed by someone else long ago. So where's the fashion industry when I need it? Selling their ill fitting stuff to rich women. I miss Yves St-Laurent, the last of the greats. People don't know fit and tailoring from a hole in the ground anymore but hey, they read Vogue...

[IsyFleur]

11:25 PM on 11/04/2011

Vogue perpetuates all the worst stereotypes about women, so that a few shallow manipulative b!t(h3$ may fatten up their bank accounts at the expense of all others. I despise Vogue, and even more these 17 women who could probably easily choose to put their talent at work to serve women in need instead of partaking in the centuries long oppression of women.

[Lacy May]

08:11 PM on 11/05/2011

So true!!!

[Wistfulslinking]

10:29 PM on 11/04/2011

...and a third cannot dress.

[StevieTheK]

05:46 PM on 11/05/2011

...and she's back! :D

[Wistfulslinking]

11:38 AM on 11/06/2011

:)

[Mike Lemire]

09:54 PM on 11/04/2011

There are a bunch of ladies who contribute absolutely nothing to the good of the world.

[NevaforLeadership]

09:26 AM on 11/05/2011

Really?

What about the millions of people employed in the fashion and peripheral industries.

If we all thought through the statements we make, it would be a better world.

[furby6]

11:20 AM on 11/05/2011

I have only one thing to say to the millions of people employed in the fashion and peripheral industries, raise the bar please. Can't any of you come up with something new instead of bringing back bell bottom pants. Kids nowadays are wearing exactly what I was wearing in high school in the 70's, except it's poorly made with cheaper fabrics. Fashion my foot.

[Mamma Roma]

01:02 PM on 11/05/2011

Surely you don't mean the lowest paid sweatshop workers? What a stipid argument when it is a known fact those who labor for these indutries are and have ALWAYS been treated the worst....like the ladies who jumped out of the windows of the SHIRTWAIST FACTORY.

When you're in SAK'S, Bergdorfs, or Nordstroms............read the labels. You might as well wear the cheapest clothes and shoes for all they pay the people who make them for you.

[Barbara Lilly]

09:47 PM on 11/04/2011

Fascinating to see so many "powerful" women in a photo together. I just wish you could get as many women as CEO's in top companies that don't have anything to do with fashion....

[Danyelle79]

09:14 PM on 11/04/2011

Now I understand why I've never had the desire to subscribe to this magizine.....

[Jeffrey Landers]

11:31 PM on 11/06/2011

Is that because you cannot spell?

[brooklyngirl8]

08:28 PM on 11/04/2011

What percentage of Japanese people will even be able to afford to go to FNO. Why don't each of those women donate a fraction of their wealth instead.