Anna Wintour is brushing off The Devil Wears Prada. A new biography about the Vogue editor-in-chief claims that when the book by Lauren Weisberger came out, Wintour didn’t even remember her assistant.
Weisberger’s book based on her own time at Vogue would later be turned into the hit movie starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. “On May 21, 2002, Women’s Wear Daily reported that The Devil Wears Prada had sold to Doubleday for a reported $250,000.
When Anna learned about the book, she said to [managing editor Laurie] Jones, ‘I cannot remember who that girl is,'” author Amy Odell detailed in Anna: The Biography, via Entertainment Weekly.
Weisberger has previously said that the character Miranda Priestly is not directly like Wintour and the fictional character is much more ruthless. READ MORE: André Leon Talley’s Celebration Of Life Service: Anna Wintour, Naomi Campbell And More Stars Attend However, with Wintour famously being a bit guarded, it didn’t help when she played into the perception she was just like Miranda by wearing Prada to the 2006 premiere.
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