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