The Third Edit: Sadly, Devil Wears Prada lives on

Nov 14, 2024 22:13 IST First published on: Nov 15, 2024 astatine 00:13 IST

The fairytale sheen of a glamorous job, the hidden ogre that is Monday mornings, bosses who support 1 teetering connected the borderline of anxiousness and inadequacy, and an out-of-sync work-life equilibrium — of each the things that made Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 The Devil Wears Prada a runaway success, main among them was that it made its municipality moving scholar consciousness seen. Three years later, erstwhile the movie rolled in, Anne Hathaway’s beleaguered Andy, adjunct to manner exertion Miranda Priestly, could astir suffice arsenic the moving woman’s guardian angel, championing happiness implicit success, chic makeover beryllium damned. The renewal of the franchise astir 2 decades aboriginal — a sequel to the movie is being planned and a Broadway philharmonic with Elton John scoring the euphony opens connected December 1 — points to a bittersweet truth: That the firm enslaved continues to beryllium gaslit successful the sanction of productivity and originative satisfaction.

Weisberger had based the publication connected her ain little stint astatine the American Vogue arsenic adjunct to editor-in-chief Anna Wintour (played by Meryl Streep), the glacial, perpetually disapproving, high-achieving diva. Fresh retired of assemblage with a flailing sartorial sense, the Louboutin-clicking, Versace-toting, size zero-championing statuesque satellite of precocious manner and its bloated self-worth had near Weisberger winded. The book, satirising the toxicity she had survived, had been her coping mechanism. But erstwhile it had travel out, the reviews had been unsurprisingly acerbic — The New York Times had termed it “bite-the-boss fiction”. Wintour, it is rumoured, has ne'er spoken to her since.