DWP Office

Big news — Anna Wintour is redecorating her office. The designer for The Devil Wears Prada constructed a movie set for Meryl Streep's character that was such a spitting image of the Vogue editor's actual office (though Anna's "is more cluttered").

Wintour feels that her office no longer feels personal — now that everyone in the world has seen an exact duplicate.

The magazine's spokesman declined to elaborate on exactly what has been changed, but Wintour-watchers who got a peek at her chintz-filled Long Island weekend home in Britain's World of Interiors in early March may wonder whether she's traded the sleek glass of her old office for a more traditional look.

We're glad Anna's getting a chance to break free and try something new. Maybe one day it might even be acceptable to eat omelets in her clutter box.

Anna Redecorates [Irin Carmon, WWD]

Aug 3, 2006 · posted by · Link · Respond

Adrian Grenier girls

While gossiping at the premiere of The Devil Wears Prada, Adrien Grenier bragged to Rush & Molloy that he knows how to cook a mean grilled cheese. Yeah, yeah, we don't care either. The part of the story that snagged us was when the thralls of Conde Naster ladies were throwing themselves at the star after the show. (Seriously, can somebody tell them this was a movie?)

"I made eight of them in a row during retakes," he told us, as one cheeky Condé Nast beauty after another presented herself to the "Entourage" star as he lingered in the lobby, unguarded and uncelebritylike, long after the premiere's end.

Since there's no way in hell all the Condes were invited to this premiere, we will assume these are the Vogue and Vanity Fair and Glamour girls they're speaking of. And we had no idea those girls were actually allowed to be around people while they talked about food.

Side Dish [Rush & Molloy, Daily News]

Jun 22, 2006 · posted by · Link · Respond

Devil Prada

Invitations to a screening of The Devil Wears Prada are rumored to have gone out to the executive and editorial assistants of top magazine EIC's. The invites were addressed to "Asst. to Graydon Carter," "Asst. to Ingrid Sischy," so on and so forth.

The stunt, which was pulled together by a PR team at Harrison & Shriftman's, was intended to douse the "finest high powered assistants in town," in Corzo tequila and cover them in Sephora make-up. Sounds fun. But, uh, you'd think that if they were making such a big deal out of this "you're an important person" crap, they would have at least addressed the invitations by name, instead of " to Brandon Holley's bitch."

Like, it took us three minutes to find out the names of Catherine Strawn (Ass't to Brandon Holley), Jon Kelly, Leigh Herzig (Ass'ts to Graydon Carter), Karen Wilson (Ass't to Ingred Sischy), and Wendy Hanson (Ass't to Charla Lawhorn).

Now we know why we've never fucking heard of Corzo tequila.

Peon Homage [Sara James, WWD]

Jun 15, 2006 · posted by · Link · Respond