You could have Andy Sachs' job from 'The Devil Wears Prada'
- Condé Nast posted a job listing for an assistant to the editor-in-chief of Vogue.
- Anne Hathaway famously played an assistant to a powerful fashion magazine editor in "The Devil Wears Prada."
Gird your loins — Vogue's editor-in-chief Anna Wintour (aka, Miranda Priestly) is looking for a new assistant.
According to a job listing on Condé Nast's careers site, the assistant would serve the editor-in-chief of American Vogue and the global Chief Content Officer (both presumably refer to Wintour, who was given the CCO title a few years earlier) .
The salary is listed as $60-80k, though assistants in the past have reported receiving lower starting salaries (one assistant revealed she received $25k in 1993, around $54k today, according to EOnline).
Responsibilities include calendar management, fielding calls and emails, and assisting with meeting arrangements.
If the movie "The Devil Wears Prada" is anything to go by, working conditions might be extremely unchill.
According to a biography about Wintour titled "Anna," one assistant claimed she lost 8 lbs within her first two weeks on the job and another said she was instructed never to leave her desk, even to use the bathroom, if another assistant was not around.
Another former staffer said the job was so exhausting she would sometimes lay down to rest on a cold stone floor when Wintour was at lunch.
Women also spoke about being subject to "The Look" — what staffers call Wintour's non-verbal way of sizing up their daily outfits. One woman even told The Cut that she spent over $5,000 on an interview outfit in a bid to make a good impression.
The biography also revealed that the editor's icy demeanor earned her nicknames like "Nuclear Wintour" and "The Wintour of our Discontent."
Former assistant Meredith Asplundh said rules like not leaving the desk weren't orders directed by the boss herself, but rather "lore" handed down from generation to generation of assistants.
It is possible that the "lore" around Wintour has ballooned out of proportion because of the phenomenon around the "The Devil Wears Prada."
(For what it's worth, Meryl Streep, who played Wintour's counterpart Miranda Priestly in the movie, said she based her character around Clint Eastwood and Mike Nichols, not Wintour.)
A representative for Vogue told Entertainment Weekly that the biography was "written without Anna's participation and, regrettably, she was not given the opportunity to fact-check anything in it."
Other assistants have had more positive accounts of their experiences — in an interview with The Grace Tales, ex-assistant Rey Vakili said she loved "shadowing such an incredible woman" and that the job gave her a "love for business and entrepreneurship."
For those hoping to apply, ex-assistant Lily Stav Gildor shared tips on how to get and keep the job on TikTok, including not mentioning exercise as a hobby in the interview, and embracing the art of outfit repeating.