Anne Hathaway confirmed toughen for the Condé Nast Union stroll out by means of finishing her Vainness Honest photograph shoot prior to she were given in entrance of the cameras, in keeping with studies.
“They hadn’t even started taking photos yet,” a supply advised Selection on Tuesday, January 23, of Hathaway’s selection to depart her scheduled shoot. “Once Anne was made aware of what was going on, she just got up from hair and makeup and left.”
Hathaway, 41, used to be reportedly unaware that just about 400 Condé Nast union individuals walked out of the corporate’s New York headquarters in a while prior to her arrival on Tuesday. Condé Nast owns more than one publications, together with Vainness Honest, Style, GQ, Attract, Architectural Digest, Glamour, Self and Youngster Style.
As soon as Hathaway and her crew discovered what used to be taking place, she promptly left the development in team spirit, in keeping with the hole.
“If Runway had a union The Devil Wears Prada would’ve been 30 seconds long,” the reputable union social media account wrote by way of X on Tuesday, regarding Hathaway’s fictional employer within the 2006 style movie. “Thank you, Anne Hathaway, for not crossing our picket line.”
Hathaway famously portrayed Andy Sachs in The Satan Wears Prada, who's a fish out of water when she turns into one in every of Miranda Priestly’s (Meryl Streep) assistants. Anna Wintour, who's the present inventive director and world leader content material officer at Condé Nast, used to be the free inspiration for Streep’s cutthroat personality.
Condé Nast staff hinted at their 24-hour stroll out remaining week after the mag conglomerate merged Pitchfork with males’s mag GQ. The merger ended in huge layoffs at Pitchfork, together with the go out of editor-in-chief Puja Patel.
The shakeup got here after Condé Nast CEO Rodger Lynch introduced in November 2023 that the corporate deliberate to put off greater than 300 staff, which is kind of 5 % of its workforce. The cuts have been a part of the corporate’s try at “prioritizing cost reductions,” in keeping with a workforce memo by way of Selection.
The Condé Nast Union held a rally out of doors the New York workplaces in opposition of the workforce cuts on Tuesday. “Layoffs are out of fashion,” one wooden signal learn, in keeping with a video shared on X. “Say it loud, say it clear, winter’s extra cold this year,” the crowd can also be heard chanting, reputedly a dig at Wintour, 74.
The union’s vice chair Ben Dewey advised The Hollywood Reporter that they selected to stroll out on Tuesday as it used to be when the 2024 Oscars nominees have been introduced. “We just really want to show how much Condé relies on union members to cover big events like the Oscar nominations,” he defined, asking that readers boycott Condé Nast publications till their message has been gained.
Us Weekly has reached out to Hathaway’s rep for remark.