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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Helena Horton

Lifestyle blogger said to have inspired Devil Wears Prada character uses unpaid student interns

Plum Sykes smiles at the camera while standing in front of a floral background
Plum Sykes uses interns for a range of tasks to help her producer her Substack. Photograph: Darren Gerrish/WireImage for Manolo Blahnik

She is said to have been the inspiration for a character in The Devil Wears Prada and was a personal assistant of Anna Wintour, so Plum Sykes knows a thing or two about the arduous and often unglamorous life of being a fashion industry intern.

But that recognition does not, it appears, extend to paying her own interns a fair wage. Or, indeed, any wage at all.

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