The Devil Wears Prada

With The Devil Wears Prada , Lauren Weisberger takes a fun behind-the-scenes look at the fashion world.

The fashion world isn't for beginners. Especially in New York. To gain a foothold—even the slightest—you often have to go through the motions. Or even sell your soul to the devil. But is it worth all the sacrifice?

Lauren Weisberger expertly addresses this issue with charm and good humor in her debut novel, The Devil Wears Prada , which reveals, in detail, the stories of easily identifiable characters in the fashionable world of New York. The result is a delightful book, faithful to the best style of new humor literature, a hit with audiences in the US, having already been published in 27 countries and which hit theaters in 2006, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway.

Lauren Weisberger worked as an assistant to the all-powerful, beloved-and-hated Vogue editor Anna Wintour. So any similarity between The Devil Wears Prada and reality is no coincidence.

In this irresistible novel, the reader will meet Andrea Sachs, a young recent college graduate who lands a job that should make thousands of girls green with envy: assistant to Miranda Priestly, revered editor of Runway Magazine, the most successful fashion magazine of the moment. She soon realizes, however, that the job a million girls would die for may just end hers.

Suddenly, the young journalist finds herself in an office where the words Prada, Armani, and Versace are law, and begins to experience the fascinating world of fashion up close. Fascinating, but not all that glamorous. She soon realizes that, instead of writing fashion reports and editorials, her job at Runway will be to cater to her boss's whims: Andrea must pick up Miranda's clothes from the dry cleaners, hunt for babysitters for her children, locate, from the New York office, the whereabouts of the driver who left Miranda standing in the rain on a Paris street corner, and quickly provide solutions to even the most outlandish requests. Miranda is the embodiment of Andrea's nightmare.