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Famously inspired by her year at Vogue<\/em>, The Devil Wears Prada<\/em> has spawned book sequels, two movies, and even a musical<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has been nearly a quarter-century since Lauren Weisberger \u201999<\/a> wrote The Devil Wears Prada<\/em>\u2014a novel, published when Weisberger was just 26, that became not merely a bestseller but a cultural sensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 2003 tale chronicles the personal and professional travails of aspiring journalist Andy Sachs, who unexpectedly lands a job as the latest in a long line of beleaguered assistants to Miranda Priestly\u2014the tyrannical editor of the fictional Runway<\/em> magazine, a figure who\u2019s both feared and revered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weisberger had been an assistant to Vogue<\/em> editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, who was widely assumed to be the basis for Miranda (and the author herself for Andy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Weisberger maintained at the time that the characters and their experiences were composites, she took flak for what some saw as an opportunistic hit job on her former boss.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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\u201cI don\u2019t know if I would have been able to write and publish that book had I known what was going to come of it, all the good and all the bad,\u201d Weisberger says of the sudden fame\u2014and widespread criticism\u2014she faced when Prada<\/em> became a surprise hit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was really young, surprised, and overwhelmed back then. No one had prepared me for that at all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don\u2019t know if I would have been able to write and publish that book had I known what was going to come of it, all the good and all the bad.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The novel spent six months on the New York Times<\/em> hardcover bestseller list (and another six atop it in paperback) and was adapted as a 2006 film starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci that grossed $326 million worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was even turned into a musical<\/a>\u2014composed by none other than Sir Elton John\u2014that has played in London\u2019s West End since 2022, as well as in Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stars (from left) Hathaway, Streep, and Tucci in the sequel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A much-anticipated film sequel, The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em><\/a>, debuted in spring 2026, two decades after the original; it too has been a massive hit, grossing $666 million worldwide as of late May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The publicity and red-carpet events around the sequel\u2019s release have given Weisberger\u2014who has published seven other novels since her blockbuster debut\u2014reason to reflect on the legacy of the characters she created, and to marvel at how what was once controversial has become firmly embedded into pop culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny; now you see Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour on the cover of Vogue<\/em><\/a> together,\u201d marvels Weisberger, who these days mainly lives on a trawler yacht\u2014often at anchor in the Bahamas\u2014with her husband and two children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With her family at the sequel’s London premiere.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\u201cBut for at least a decade after the book came out, there was a Cond\u00e9 Nast decree that they wouldn\u2019t mention The Devil Wears Prada<\/em> in any of their magazines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnna supposedly hated the book, and they couldn\u2019t get [certain] clothes for the first movie because designers were so scared of her. It was a whole thing. And now it\u2019s completely changed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the author hasn\u2019t appeared on magazine covers with Wintour, the legendary editor gifted her a Prada bag some years ago; Weisberger\u2019s daughter carried it on the red carpet for the new film\u2019s London premiere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Weisberger posted on Instagram<\/a>: \u201cLife is weird and wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing that hasn\u2019t changed in the more than quarter-century since she took the job at Vogue<\/em>? \u201cI have no actual working knowledge of the fashion world, whatsoever, truly,\u201d she says with a laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing that hasn\u2019t changed in the more than quarter-century since she took the job at Vogue<\/em>? \u201cI have no actual working knowledge of the fashion world, whatsoever, truly,\u201d she says with a laugh.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m not saying I don\u2019t love shoes or sometimes lust after a certain bag\u2014but as far as actual knowledge of, or interest in, high-fashion runway shows, anything like that? Zero. Less than zero.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Pennsylvania native, Weisberger majored in English in Arts & Sciences with a minor in Near Eastern studies. By the fall after graduation, she was sleeping on a friend\u2019s couch in NYC and applying for magazine jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Lauren
With her parents at Commencement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Much like Andy in The Devil Wears Prada<\/em>, Weisberger arrived at Cond\u00e9 Nast\u2019s HR department wearing a pantsuit and toting a briefcase, not knowing what position\u2014or even which magazine\u2014she was being considered for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the first interviewer told her it was Vogue<\/em>, Weisberger balked, saying it wouldn\u2019t be a great fit. Nevertheless, she was sent for more interviews that culminated in working for Wintour\u2014already infamous as an astoundingly exacting boss\u2014putting the young grad at the epicenter of fashion journalism during the heyday of print magazines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was, as numerous characters in the first Prada<\/em> book and movie tell Andy, a job that \u201ca million girls would die for.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Lauren
At a book signing during her 5th Reunion in 2004.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Weisberger stayed in the post for nearly a year before following a mentor to a newly launched magazine.<\/em> She also enrolled in a creative writing workshop, where she struggled to find a topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had this crazy year I worked at a fashion magazine; it was funny and weird, and I saw a lot of famous people and a lot of excess,\u201d she recalls. \u201cSo I just started working on it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had this crazy year I worked at a fashion magazine; it was funny and weird, and I saw a lot of famous people and a lot of excess.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Months later, Weisberger shopped around a 100-page treatment\u2014and both the book and the film rights sold within weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s Working Girl<\/em> meets Cruella de Vil,\u201d Newsday<\/em> observed in a review, while USA Today<\/em> noted that \u201cWeisberger does an excellent job capturing the overwrought hothouse atmosphere of the fashion magazine cosmos.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other critics, though, saw the novel as spiteful, with the New York Times<\/em> calling it a \u201cmean-spirited Gotcha!<\/em> of a book.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But Weisberger insists that only in places like NYC, L.A., and London was the media hyper-focused on the Wintour connection; elsewhere, she says, readers simply connected with the story of a young woman in an impossibly stressful job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As she recalls: \u201cThey would say to me, \u2018Oh my God, let me tell you what my<\/em> boss did; she threw a phone at my face last week.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the making of the first movie, Weisberger spent time with both Hathaway and the screenwriter and often visited the set in Manhattan and Paris.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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With Hathaway in Paris while filming the first movie.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

She even had an onscreen cameo: she babysits Miranda\u2019s twins as they read an unpublished Harry Potter<\/em> book, which Andy has procured to satisfy one of her boss\u2019s most comically over-the-top demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI remember thinking, \u2018This is a total once-in-a-lifetime thing. This is crazy. This never happens\u2014and it\u2019s certainly never going to happen again,\u2019\u201d says Weisberger, who in fact went on to spend time on the set of the second film, in which she has another cameo (she and her family briefly appear as tourists in Central Park).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I remember thinking, \u2018This is a total once-in-a-lifetime thing. This is crazy. This never happens\u2014and it\u2019s certainly never going to happen again.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Weisberger went on to publish two Prada<\/em> sequels\u2014Revenge Wears Prada<\/em> and When Life Gives You Lululemons\u2014<\/em>though neither forms the basis of the second film. Her next novel is set for summer 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, in a full-circle moment, she got her first Vogue<\/em> byline, for an essay<\/a> reflecting on her Prada<\/em> experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weisberger (third from right) with cast and crew on the set of the sequel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In it, she acknowledges that if she penned the novel today, it would likely be a more layered and empathetic portrait of the world it depicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStill, the version of me who wrote that book had something I cannot easily access now: unfiltered honesty,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is a boldness that comes from being young and outraged. You\u2019re less careful, less diplomatic, not as concerned with the consequences. And there is real power in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top: Weisberger outside the Chicago theater showing <\/em>The Devil Wears Prada musical. (All photos provided, unless otherwise indicated.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published June 3, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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