The Devil Wears Prada: Starring Anna Wintour and Carine Roitfeld

Do you love The Devil Wears Prada movie as much as I do?  I have watched it countless times, and will watch it countless more times.  It is one of the few movies that I liked better than the book (booooooooooring book – don’t bother).

So the rumor mill has been absolutely churning this week, with a Gawker headline practically straight from the movie, “Anna Wintour Said Replaced by French Counterpart.” 

The Waverly Inn was crawling with Condé Nast insiders earlier tonight, some of whom had been waiting as long as 20 years for the appetizer: The hot, delicious rumor that Si Newhouse was meeting in Paris with Carine Roitfeld to work out the final details of the French Vogue editor’s move to New York, where she is expected to take over flagship Vogue from Anna Wintour immediately after New Year’s. It did not go unnoticed when Condé Nast overlord Newhouse departed early for his annual three-week December vacation in Vienna; it turns out he needed time for his meeting with uptight Wintour’s chic Parisian counterpart.

The funny thing to me is that Gawker apparently didn’t even realize until readers pointed it out, the similarities between fiction and supposed real life in this story. 

As many of you noted in the comments, the rumored replacement of Wintour by her French rival puts a tragic (for Wintour) twist on a plotline specific to the film adaptation of the novel The Devil Wears Prada.

I guess the story should have been given to the Jezebel editors first – they would have caught it right away.  ANYWAY, an article in WWD (published by Conde Nast, who also publishes Vogue) this morning states that American Vogue’s Anna Wintour is going nowhere and they *just can’t imagine* who is spreading the rumors.  I suppose the rampant reports about the decline of the magazine are fueling these rumors, but I pretty steadily believe that where there is smoke, there is fire.  Stay tuned and see if Jacqueline Follet Carine Roitfeld makes a move!