Characters
- Andrea "Andy" Sachs, a recent Brown University, graduate, who works as a junior personal assistant to a powerful and tyrannical fashion magazine editor.
- Miranda Priestly, the British-born (as Miriam Princhek) editor-in-chief of Runway, an influential fashion magazine published by the Elias-Clark company. She is known for wearing a white Hermès scarf somewhere on her person every day and treating her subordinates in a manner that borders on emotional and psychological abuse.
- Emily Charlton, Miranda's former junior assistant now her senior assistant. She and Andrea have a conflicted relationship.
- Alex Fineman, Andrea's boyfriend, who teaches at an elementary school in the South Bronx through Teach for America.
- Lily Goodwin, a free-spirited graduate student in Russian literature at Columbia with curly black hair, who rooms with Andrea
- Nigel, a very tall British gay man who in addition to serving as Runway 's creative director, frequently appears on television as a fashion consultant and is thus one of the few stars of the magazine Andrea knows prior to working there. He always speaks loudly. He has an outrageous sense of style and is the only person who can get away with critiquing Miranda's personal wardrobe choices.
- James, another gay man at Runway who works at the beauty department who befriends Andrea. He jokes about "calling in fat" on days when he feels unattractive.
- Jeffy, who oversees Runway 's famous "Closet," stocked with all sorts of clothing nominally on loan from the designers for use in shoots, but rarely returned and often "borrowed" by the magazine's staff. He is responsible for transforming Andrea's wardrobe so she can fit in in the fashionable hallways of the Runway offices.
- Hunter Tomlinson, a prominent New York tax attorney who is Miranda's current husband (she is divorced from the father of her two daughters, a well-known British rock star). As nice to Andrea and Emily as his wife is cruel, he is referred to by them and other close associates of Miranda's as "B-DAD" behind his back, for Blind Deaf and Dumb—the only way they could imagine anyone being able to live with her.
- Eduardo, a security guard at the Elias-Clark building, who often playfully makes Andrea or anyone else unfortunate enough to work as one of Miranda's personal assistants sing or otherwise put on some sort of act before he lets them enter the building.
- Christian Collinsworth, a handsome young writer whom Andrea meets at a party, where they develop a mutual attraction.
- Caroline and Cassidy, the twin daughters Miranda dotes on.
- Cara, the girls' nanny, who saves Andrea's skin more than once but is eventually fired by Miranda after she gives the twins a timeout in their bedroom for a bad attitude.
- Jill, Andrea's older sister, who is married and lives in Houston, where she has begun to affect a Southern accent, much to Andrea's displeasure.
- The Clackers, the magazine's many female editorial staffers, mainly Allison (former senior assistant, now beauty editor), Lucia (fashion department), Jocelyn (editorial), and Stef (accessories). Andrea gives them their nickname for the sound made by the stiletto heels they wear as they walk up and down the marble floors of the Elias-Clark building.
- Benjamin, referred to as Benji. He is Lily's ex-boyfriend, but it seems that he and Lily has stayed in touch even though they had broken up. He is mentioned in the book only briefly, but he was involved in the car accident with Lily.
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