Anna Carey

And she came out at the Oscars with Anne Hathaway to, you know, to present an award.

So I think it actually apparently she was enraged by the book.

So the original book was written by Lauren Weisberger, who had been Anna Wintour's assistant in Vogue, like around the year 2000.

Yes.

Oh, no, it was a novel.

Yeah.

But, yeah, it made her a lot better known to people who had no knowledge of, you know, American Vogue beforehand.

Like I'd say there were a lot of people before The Devil Wears Prada came out had no idea who edited American Vogue and no idea who Anna Wintour was.

You know, like people who were interested in fashion and in the media did, but most people didn't.

And this did make her become this...

all powerful figure because the thing about Miranda Priestly in the film is that she is genuinely you know the word iconic is overused but she is an iconic character sort of visually and and in you know the way the performance from Meryl Streep is so distinctive and makes such an unforgettable character that you know there were a lot worse things you could be associated with so definitely boosted her fame anyway

Yeah.

And that's the thing that, you know, there's no legacy, legacy media in the States, even where they always had way more money, obviously, than anything in Europe has, you know, totally changed since then.

Like so many big Prandé Nast publications have gone digital only, which is sort of a polite way of saying they don't really exist anymore.

Yeah.

You know, they're, you know, they exist, but then they gradually get smaller and smaller and smaller and people leave.

Not even vaguely.

Like I have copies of American Vogue still from like 1992, 93 that I got when I was a teenager and I have all of them.

And some of them are literally an inch thick.

Like the September issue would be that ginormous.