There’s been a very polite, passive-aggressive skirmish recently unfolding across social media over who the former Condé Nast veteran was the real inspiration for Emily Blunt’s scene-stealing first assistant in The devil wears Prada – Emily Charlton – who of course returns in part two.
In one corner is famed fashion designer Leslie Fremar, who worked as Anna Wintour’s real-life first assistant at Vogue in 1999, the same year that Loren Weisberger, author of the best-selling book on which the first film was based, worked as Wintour’s second assistant. “It was really based on a lot of things that I lived and experienced,” Fremar said recently. Vogue magazinePodcast Operatingnoting that, like Emily in the film, she was not “very nice” to Weisberger when they were working together.
But not so fast, Leslie. Because the Internet is also full of speculation about it Vogue magazineLongtime entertainment director turned acting director Jill Demling is actually a real inspiration for Emily. The evidence, such as it is, focuses on the fact that Demling was Wintour’s first aide before Fremar – in fact, she was the one who appointed Fremar to replace her – and was known to be less kind to the other aides. “I was kind of strict in the way I ran [Wintour’s] “The office,” Demling said recently Daily Mail. “Leslie even said she was intimidated into taking my job because of the way I ran the office.”
But Demling did not publicly claim Emily’s mantle. In fact, she has been shyly distancing herself from the speculation, even as she rides the wave of publicity it has given her. On her podcast, Go rogue — which, not at all coincidentally, dropped a roundtable of former Vogue collaborators, including Fremar, just as Prada 2 She was arriving in theaters – she admitted that Fremar was “the real Emily”. She also waved off the claims on social media, posting on Instagram, “No quotes about ‘I’m the real Emily’ — because I never said that.”
Meanwhile, some former Condé Nasties people were also taking a bow. A long time ago Vogue magazine Editor William Norwich has been dining out for years due to rumors that he is the real Nigel Kipling. “When I get to know people now, someone will say: ‘That’s Billy – he’s the man The devil wears Prada. “He’s the real Stanley Tucci,” he once told an interviewer. “There are definitely similarities. You were a very caring and loving person in me Vogue magazine. It has been a huge blessing to my sex life. But veteran fashion editor Paul Cavaco is often seen as an inspiration for Nigel – although Cavaco has publicly disavowed any such ideas, saying he believes the character is based on “a combination of Billy Norwich and… Vogue magazine Writer Hamish Bowles.
As for Meryl Streep’s character, the actress has tried on several occasions to distance Miranda from Wintour, claiming that Miranda relied more on the directors she worked with – but no one believes it. Maybe not even Anna Wintour.
