Community Board Doesn't Wait for Fashionably Late Anna Wintour

Vogue editor Anna Wintour, who arrived at a community board meeting too late to oppose a restaurant's application for a ...

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By Nina Mandell

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN — Anna Wintour may run on her own schedule, but Community Board 2 wasn't waiting.

The famously fractious style guru took a break from Fashion Week to attend the meeting last week as it discussed a liquor license application by Jamaican restaurant Miss Lily's, which the Vogue editor has opposed.

The restaurant is near her Sullivan Street townhouse, the New York Post reported.

By the time she got there, the restaurant — which has scaled back its plans considerably since Wintour voiced her opposition to it — had already had its application approved, according to Eater NY.

The license was for beer and wine only — and if Wintour was disappointed, the Post said she didn't show it.

"She strolled in the meeting, smiled, and strolled out," the newspaper reported.

Infamous Vogue editor Anna Wintour and "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker chatted before the Oscar de la Renta...

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