Anna Wintour’s Former Assistants Reveal What The Devil Wears Prada Got Right (and Wrong)
The Run-Through with Vogue
Vogue
4.1 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Finally, the moment we’ve all been waiting for: three of Anna Wintour’s former assistants—Sache Taylor (Vogue’s director of special events), Sammi Tapper (director of operations and content strategy), and Marley Marius (senior editor, features and news), or “Anna’s Angels,” as Chloe calls them—join The Run-Through to discuss what The Devil Wears Prada got right (and wrong).
They break down the real day-to-day of the job, from managing the infamous “book” to why there’s so much running around the office—and share whether assistants ever actually get to wear pieces from the Vogue closet. One of the funniest revelations: how hard it can be to decode Anna’s handwriting. While Marley claims that she became fluent, Sammi reveals that even Anna has trouble reading it sometimes.
Also in this episode, Chloe tells Chioma all about her big week, which included seeing Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway and going to Saturday Night Live with her mom, Candice Bergen; and Chioma joins in on The Devil Wears Prada fun, sharing what she wore to her interview with Anna and advising anyone aspiring to work at Vogue not to make the mistake of wearing black.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Run Through is brought to you by eBay. |
| 0:02.9 | Hi, y'all. It's Arden Fanding Andrews, Vogue's Beauty Editor at large, and I'm back to talk about one of my favorite topics, eBay. At long last, I have become a seller. All of my years of shopping on eBay have shown me what to do now. Like, what information do I want to know? What do I want to see? I don't believe in hoarding luxury. |
| 0:21.8 | You have to share it. |
| 0:23.1 | And that's why I'm shopping and selling on eBay. |
| 0:31.5 | This is the run-through. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm Chloe Mel. |
| 0:33.9 | And I'm Chomaadi. |
| 0:35.6 | Choma. |
| 0:36.4 | I can't wait to hear about your vacation. I feel like we should |
| 0:38.7 | start with the cover because that's like the big thing. I know. We're not starting with my vacation. |
| 0:43.0 | Fuck my vacation. We're talking with the cover. I know. Like the cover's major. Like it's like |
| 0:48.2 | the biggest thing ever. I mean the way that this has been guarded like the Pentagon Papers. |
| 1:12.4 | I can't believe you kept this from me, Chloe. This is really special. I know. It's wild. I feel like, you know, you can go to a surprise party. And you're like, oh, how did you manage this? I know. The NDAs that had to be signed. And poor Virginia, like no one on her team knew. So Virginia was doing store polls with Grace Coddington herself, pulling the clothes out, of packing them in the trunks at the |
| 1:17.4 | shoot. Me and Taylor were just doing all the texts together. It's been a real. |
| 1:24.4 | Oh, my gosh. It's sort of our, all the president's men moment. |
| 1:29.2 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:29.9 | You must be exhausted after that. |
| 1:31.7 | But yes, it was very exciting. |
| 1:33.4 | And Anna really made this happen with Merrill, who is very hesitant to be on the cover |
| 1:39.1 | again. |
| 1:39.4 | And so it did start with me asking Anna in October if she would ever be on the cover with Merrill and her saying, absolutely not. |
| 1:47.0 | And then when Merrill asked her, it was maybe. |
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