Anna goes green

Anna Wintour has deemed recycling an outfit "totally ok".

Anna Wintour's style has been hitting the headlines for a less-than-flattering reason recently, with her being papped wearing the same outfit repeatedly as she jetted from city to city during the spring/summer 2010 shows.

However, the American Vogue editirix has finally spoken out about the apparent faux pas - and insisted that such thriftiness is so cool, we should all give it a go.

"I usually wear the same dress twenty times. I think it's always fun to have something new, but it doesn't mean that everything you already have in your closet has to be thrown out, you know? Recycle," she told reporters. "It's totally ok. I even recommend it."

It's safe to say that she knows what she's talking about. Wintour last month topped Forbes' Most Influential Fashion Editors list, and just last week was named as the only woman in the top 12 most powerful people in New York by New Yorker Magazine.

It is possible that the recession has had an influence on her thinking, however. She famously had to leave Paris Fashion Week early, to fly back to New York and get stuck into some budget cuts.

Picture: Anna Wintour at the Balmain show during Paris Fashion Week, wearing the snakeskin coat and animal-print dress that she also wore to shows in London and Milan.