<P> According to biographer Jerry Oppenheimer, her ubiquitous sunglasses are actually corrective lenses, since she suffers from deteriorating vision as her father did . A former colleague he interviewed recalls trying on her Wayfarers in her absence and getting dizzy . "I think at this point they've become, you know, really armour," Wintour herself told 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer, explaining that they allow her to keep her reactions to a show private . As she rebounded from the end of her marriage and the turnover in the magazine's editorial staff, a fellow editor and friend noted that "she's not hiding behind her glasses anymore . Now she's having fun again ." </P> <P> Wintour has been a supporter of the Democratic Party since Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate run and John Kerry's 2004 presidential run and serving Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 presidential runs as a "bundler" of contributions . In 2008 and 2012, she co-hosted fundraisers with Sarah Jessica Parker, the latter being a 50 - person, $40,000 - a-plate dinner at Parker's West Village town house with Meryl Streep, Michael Kors, and Trey Laird, an advertising executive, among the attendees . She has also teamed with Calvin Klein and Harvey Weinstein on fundraisers during Obama's first term and Donna Karan has been amongst the attendees . In 2013 when Vogue's former director of communications stepped down, Wintour was rumoured to be looking to hire someone with a political background . Soon after, Wintour hired Hildy Kuryk, a former fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee and Obama's first campaign . She supported Hillary Clinton's 2016 Presidential Campaign, forming part of Clinton's long list of wealthy donors or "Hillblazers" as well as serving as Clinton's consultant on her wardrobe choices for key moments of the campaign . </P> <P> Lauren Weisberger, a former Wintour assistant who left Vogue for Departures along with Richard Story, wrote The Devil Wears Prada after a writing workshop he suggested she take . It was eagerly anticipated for its supposed insider portrait of Wintour prior to its publication . Wintour told The New York Times, "I always enjoy a great piece of fiction . I haven't decided whether I am going to read it or not ." While it has been suggested that the setting and Miranda Priestly were based on Vogue and Wintour, Weisberger claims she drew not only from her own experiences but those of her friends as well . Wintour herself makes a cameo appearance near the end of the book, where it is said she and Miranda dislike each other . </P> <P> In the novel, Miranda has many similarities to Wintour--among them, she is British, has two children, and is described as a major contributor to the Met . Priestly is a tyrant who makes impossible demands of her subordinates, gives them almost none of the information or time necessary to comply and then berates them for their failures to do so . </P>

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