LAUREN WEISBERGER
WRITING WITH STYLE
Lauren’s hit The Devil Wears Prada is about to be made into a musical. With her new book due out, the mum of two tells us she’ll always be grateful for that stylish stepping stone to more adventures in intriguing fiction
She is just about to publish her eighth book, having sold bestseller after bestseller during her 18-year career. But Lauren Weisberger doesn’t mind in the slightest that she will always be known as the woman who wrote The Devil Wears Prada.
“I truly, honestly, don’t get sick of talking about it,” she tells Hello! of the hugely successful book, which was turned into a hit movie starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway in 2006. Lauren wrote the novel after working as an assistant to the US Vogue editor in chief. “I think it’s really awesome how it has evolved over the years. I used to get irritated by people asking me if it was based on Vogue and Anna Wintour, but that whole line of questioning has vanished now and it’s really cool that this has become part of pop culture. I never imagined it would have had this staying power.”