Watch With Jen - S7: E3 - The Devil Wears Prada with Amina Akhtar

About this episode

Jen Johans chats with Amina Akhtar about her experiences in the fashion magazine industry and the impact of The Devil Wears Prada.

It's always such a joy when I can bring on a friend I know IRL who lives in my home state, so it is with great pleasure that I scheduled a Zoom hang with the critically acclaimed, wondrously creative, and darkly comedic journalist-turned-author Amina Akhtar. More of a breezy, nostalgic chat about life, Gen X, print journalism, and the '90s, than a traditional episode devoted to the movies, with the release of Devil Wears Prada 2 right around the corner, it was the perfect time to talk to Amina about the twenty years she spent working in the fashion magazine industry. Accidentally stumbling into a full time position at Vogue after a month working as a fact checker, Amina was the assistant to Anna Wintour's second in command, and worked along with Lauren Weisberger, who no one in her office realized was secretly writing and getting ready to publish the thinly veiled satire of her work life with Wintour at Vogue in The Devil Wears Prada . Light-hearted, funny, and eye-opening, Amina shares her insights and memories, and we discuss how the film, starring Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, and Meryl Streep, reflected and differed from the real thing. Bio: Amina Akhtar is a…

People in this episode

Host: Jen Johans

Guest: Amina Akhtar

Topics covered

• fashion journalism
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Gen X
• nostalgia
• print journalism
• Amina Akhtar

Keywords

• fashion
• journalism
• Amina Akhtar
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Gen X
• nostalgia
• Vogue

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Devil Wears Prada, #FashionVictim, Kismet, Almost Surely Dead

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