Before there was Andy Sachs, there was Lauren Weisberger.
The author of “The Devil Wears Prada” famously penned the ebook primarily based on her real-life expertise as Anna Wintour’s assistant that grew to become the 2006 movie and sparked the forthcoming sequel — however it wasn’t all espresso runs and dowdy sweaters.
Weisberger attended the New York City premiere of “The Devil Wears Prada 2” at Lincoln Center in NYC on Monday night time, taking her husband and two youngsters as her dates.
Calling life “weird and wonderful” in an Instagram post after the occasion, the author revealed that her daughter carried a bag — Prada, no much less — that Wintour herself had gifted Weisberger again within the day.
“Many moons ago Anna Wintour gifted me the very Prada bag that, tonight, my beautiful daughter carried down the red carpet,” she wrote.
Weisberger labored a Vogue journal for lower than a 12 months at the very starting of 2000 earlier than releasing her ebook in 2003. Though it’s unclear when precisely Wintour gifted the purse, it’s of the early aughts: the unique iteration of the now-iconic Cleo bag.
Weisberger’s daughter wasn’t the one one carrying the Italian vogue home on the crimson carpet. Wintour herself wore a customized Prada striped costume from 2016.
And the editor’s personal daughter-in-law pulled from her archives, carrying a floral Prada robe Wintour herself first sported in 2019.
The “Devil Wears Prada” sequel hits theaters May 1.
