Anna Wintour reportedly didn’t know which assistant wrote ‘Devil Wears Prada’

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“The Devil Wears Prada.”It was only until Weisberger’s book received the film adaptation treatment in 2006 that Wintour started to finally pay attention.Amy Odell, writer of Anna: The Biography, described what went down when the fashion editor tried to remember who worked for her.“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,’” Odell penned, according to Entertainment Weekly.The biography noted that Wintour went to a private screening of “The Devil Wears Prada” at the Paris Theater in New York City in 2006 before the flick premiered on June 30.

Wintour reportedly attended the showing, decked out in Prada. Director David Frankel allegedly overheard Wintour’s daughter Bee Shaffer telling her mom that the movie “really got” her character correct.Vogue contributing editor William Norwich also contributed to Odell’s book and was quoted saying that the Condé Nast director “really didn’t care about the book even after it spent six months on the ‘New York Times’ best-seller list.” According to Odell, Norwich added, “‘I don’t think Anna is as interested in the cultural phenomenon that she is as the rest of us are,’ he said.

Anna has said to friends, ‘I’m so bored by me.’ This is one reason she doesn’t plan to ever write a memoir. Norwich explained, ‘She doesn’t want to stop working to reflect.'”A Vogue rep revealed to Entertainment Weekly in a statement that the biography was “written without Anna’s participation and, regrettably, she was not given the opportunity to fact check anything in it.” The chick-lit dramedy film starred Meryl.