 She has said she admired her father Charles, known as "Chilly Charlie" for being "inscrutable." Former coworkers told Oppenheimer of a similar aloofness on her part. But she is also known for volatile outbursts of displeasure, and the widely used "Nuclear Wintour" sobriquet is a result of both. She dislikes it enough to have asked The New York Times not to use it. "There are times I get quite angry," she admitted in The September Issue.
