And the inspiration for ‘The Devil Wears Prada’In 2003, Lauren Weisberger was branded one of Manhattan’s most ungrateful women. She had just published her debut novel, ‘The Devil Wears Prada,’ based in part on her experiences as an assistant to Anna Wintour — then editor of American Vogue and now global chief content officer at Condé Nast.The book, which became a global bestseller, was adapted into a hit film three years later and more recently into a musical with music and lyrics by Elton John. It exposed the real price of glamour in the fashion world: toxic bosses, rigid hierarchies, nasty politics and designer clothes.Weisberger, then in her 20s, became one of the world’s most famous authors overnight. It was less because of the literary qualities of her first chick-lit novel and more because of the glimpse it offered into the corridors of Vogue. These were the years before Wintour’s public image was softened by documentaries such as ‘The September Issue’ in 2009, which followed the making of Vogue’s major September issue, and ‘The First Monday in May’ in 2016, which tracked preparations for the Met Gala.Anne Hathaway as Lauren Weisberger’s fictional alter ego and Meryl Streep as an Anna Wintour-like figure, from ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2′ Photo: Courtesy of Forum FilmBullying, shouting and makeover demands: the real story behind ‘The Devil Wears Prada’Lauren Weisberger’s Vogue dream job became a nightmare under Anna Wintour — and the inspiration for ‘The Devil Wears Prada’
In 2003, Lauren Weisberger was branded one of Manhattan’s most ungrateful women. She had just published her debut novel, ‘The Devil Wears Prada,’ based in part on her experiences as an assistant to Anna Wintour — then editor of American Vogue and now global chief content officer at Condé Nast.
The book, which became a global bestseller, was adapted into a hit film three years later and more recently into a musical with music and lyrics by Elton John. It exposed the real price of glamour in the fashion world: toxic bosses, rigid hierarchies, nasty politics and designer clothes.
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Weisberger, then in her 20s, became one of the world’s most famous authors overnight. It was less because of the literary qualities of her first chick-lit novel and more because of the glimpse it offered into the corridors of Vogue. These were the years before Wintour’s public image was softened by documentaries such as ‘The September Issue’ in 2009, which followed the making of Vogue’s major September issue, and ‘The First Monday in May’ in 2016, which tracked preparations for the Met Gala.
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What looked from the outside like a job “a million girls would kill for,” as the group’s CEO Irv Ravitz says more than once in the book, was portrayed as an accelerated boot camp for Andrea Sachs, Weisberger’s fictional alter ego, under the erratic rule of magazine editor Miranda Priestly. It included endless Starbucks runs, text messages at all hours, personal errands such as dry cleaning and walking the dog, and finding an unpublished ‘Harry Potter’ manuscript for Priestly’s twin daughters.
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