ALEXANDRA SHULMAN’S NOTEBOOK: The Devil Wears Prada 2 paints a picture of evil fashion magazine bosses… but as a former Vogue editor, I don’t recognise the portrait

The Devil Wears Prada 2 has provoked a tsunami of journalists eager to share the horrors of their days as junior assistants to female magazine bosses. 

Give me a break, I find myself saying when reading about yet another person threatened with being locked in a cupboard all weekend or undermined by a litany of personal remarks. Was it really like that?

Judging by the large number of articles, female bosses were total cows: bullying was rampant and demeaning comments part of daily life. 

I can’t say I recognise this from the lofty heights of the editor’s chair, but perhaps there are elements

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