Entry Level Assistant Skewers Fashion Industry Editor

Lauren Weiberger has written a novel based on her year as assistant to Vogue editor Anna Wintour. It ain’t pretty. But I’m sure it’s a juicy read and it will also be a hit movie , of course. The New York Times’ Kate Betts, herself a former Vogue employee, says, in a review of the book, Lauren is bitching a little too much and should have taken advantage of learning from the best.

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