{"id":2402732,"date":"2026-05-05T07:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2402732"},"modified":"2026-05-05T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:23:11","slug":"meet-anna-wintours-real-life-assistants-who-inspired-the-devil-wears-prada-but-where-are-they-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/meet-anna-wintours-real-life-assistants-who-inspired-the-devil-wears-prada-but-where-are-they-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Anna Wintour\u2019s real-life assistants who inspired The Devil Wears Prada \u2013 but where are they now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt reunite to reprise their roles in the highly successful sequel to the 2006 cult classic film, The Devil Wears Prada<\/span><\/a>, media attention has turned to the inspiration behind the iconic film and its very quotable characters \u2013 Anna Wintour and her various assistants at Vogue.<\/div>\n

The book and its hit film adaptation launched Weisberger\u2019s career. These days, she is a successful author working on her ninth novel and lives with her husband and two children.<\/p>\n

But who were Wintour\u2019s other assistants? Read on to find out where they are now and what they\u2019ve said about the movie, from Hollywood celebrity stylists<\/span><\/a> Leslie Fremar \u2013 who claims she inspired Blunt\u2019s character \u2013 and Kate Young to Marley Marius, now senior editor of features and news at Vogue.<\/div>\n

Rey-Hanna Vakili<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Rey-Hanna Vakili now heads a software firm in Australia. Photo: @reyvakili\/Instagram<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Vakili served as Wintour\u2019s assistant from 2013 to 2015, working alongside Lily Stav Gildor and Lili G\u00f6ksenin, the trio is also known as #TeamAW. Vakili currently works as a managing director at a software development firm in Australia.<\/p>\n

Lily Stav Gildor<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Lily Stav Gildor (left) was part of Anna Wintour\u2019s team known as #TeamAW. Photo: @lilystav\/Instagram<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Gildor worked alongside Vakili from 2014 to 2015. In 2021, Gildor went viral after she shared what she learned as Wintour\u2019s assistant on TikTok in 2021. \u201cIf you have five really chic and elegant summer outfits, wear them Monday through Friday for several months until the season\u2019s over. Everyone chic at Vogue does this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.scmp.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt reunite to reprise their roles in the highly successful sequel to the 2006 cult classic film, The Devil Wears Prada, media attention has turned to the inspiration behind the iconic film and its very quotable characters \u2013 Anna Wintour and her various assistants at Vogue. The book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2402733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[357065,21823,360683,469378,25884,22860,469379,350425,346249,467436,469377,469376,22693,59570,469375],"class_list":["post-2402732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-anna-wintour","tag-australia","tag-chloe-malle","tag-creative-casting-agency","tag-dailymail","tag-hollywood","tag-jil-demling","tag-kate-young","tag-lauren-weisberger","tag-leslie-fremar","tag-lili-goksenin","tag-lily-stav-gildor","tag-los-angeles","tag-meryl-streep","tag-rey-hanna-vakili"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Meet-Anna-Wintours-real-life-assistants-who-inspired-The-Devil-Wears.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402734,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402732\/revisions\/2402734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2402733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}