The Devil Wears Prada: A Book, Two Movies, and Jill Demling

About this episode

Ned Martel interviews Jill Demling about her experiences at Vogue and her connection to The Devil Wears Prada.

In a role reversal, Ned Martel takes the mic to interview Jill about her two decades at Vogue, timed to the release of The Devil Wears Prada 2. As the assistant who hired Lauren Weisberger, and the woman who turns up on page 21 of the novel, Jill has a firsthand stake in a story the culture keeps retelling. She walks Ned through the day the galley arrived, Anna's pivot from private hurt to public ownership of the movie, and her own running defense of the leather pants. From there the conversation opens into an oral history of the job. Jill describes Vogue in 1998: no iPhones, twenty-five handwritten phone messages waiting every morning, a diary read upside-down across the desk, and a telepathy with Anna so refined that hearing her own name was sometimes the whole question. She lays out the Monday fashion, Tuesday features, Thursday scheduling choreography, and the creative friction between Grace Coddington, Camilla Nickerson, and Anna that produced stories no other magazine could match. Jill and Ned trade stories about the September 2006 Marie Antoinette cover at Versailles, the La La Land campaign and the notes Anna accidentally sent to Damien Chazelle, the cautionary tale of…

People in this episode

Host: Ned Martel

Guest: Jill Demling

Topics covered

• fashion
• Vogue
• interview
• oral history
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Anna Wintour
• magazine culture

Keywords

• Vogue
• fashion history
• Anna Wintour
• Jill Demling
• The Devil Wears Prada
• magazine stories
• interview

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Chanel sunglasses

Books & works: The Devil Wears Prada, The Devil Wears Prada 2, Marie Antoinette, La La Land, The Shipping News, Lady Gaga anniversary issue

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