Overview
- Three former assistants — Sache Taylor, Sammi Tapper, and Marley Marius — spoke on Vogue’s The Run-Through with new editorial content head Chloe Malle about working in Wintour’s office.
- Marius said each assistant inherits a 21-page handbook that lays out how the office runs, treating it like a guide passed down from one class to the next.
- The trio outlined Wintour’s early schedule with a pre-work tennis session and an around 8 a.m. arrival, with assistants setting up coffee and breakfast and printing emails while her task list sits on an iPad.
- They described a fast office rhythm where, when Wintour asks for someone, assistants call desk landlines and hover at editors’ stations to move people into meetings without delay.
- Taylor and Tapper said Wintour takes home an oversized L.L.Bean tote with the magazine’s print dummy, returning it the next morning covered in Post-It notes written in handwriting that often requires a group to decode.