redesigning the magazine, most notably its logo. She let go two-thirds of the staff and hired new, established writers like Lynn Hirschberg and Bret Easton Ellis to cover topics like politics and art. During this time she was also the subject of a Lifetime documentary, Putting Baby to Bed: Wife, Mother, and Editor in Chief. Her goal was to remake the magazine along the lines she would have developed Vogue. "I always wanted a magazine that's avant-garde and up-to-the-minute," she said. "The whole point of fashion is to showcase what's happening and what's new". The fashion world was eager to see the result but saw pitfalls. ""I think it's exciting to have new blood in a magazine which hasn't been doing well for a very long time", said Oscar de la Renta. Others warned that "the danger in turning a high-end fashion magazine into this young, pop-culture thing is that she'll come up with Jane. And there already is a Jane. Her challenge is to make Harper's young and hip without making it cheap." Early circulation figures showed a modest increase. An audit later on showed, in fact, that readership, already declining in the later years of Tilberis's tenure, had dropped even more. The magazine was redesigned again. Betts' staff shakeup continued. "Nobody seemed able to please her", lamented one writer. One Bazaar employee who had worked for Wintour as well noted that she had "adopted every Anna Wintourism under the sun" in her management style, without being as decisive. It soon became apparent that it wasn't working out. Not quite two years later, in May 2001, she was replaced by Glenda Bailey of Marie Claire. Looking back on her tenure, one of her former deputies said "She was a control freak, and she wasn't good with people. It makes me think that there was truth to [the notion] that she was too young". When asked about it later, Betts was philosophical about the experience: After Bazaar After Bazaar, Betts began doing freelance work for The New York Times Style section, and elsewhere in the paper. One piece in the latter category, a highly negative 2003 review in the Book Review of Lauren Weisberger's debut novel The Devil Wears Prada, the basis for the film of that name, attracted some criticism of its own. Weisberger had worked as one of Wintour's personal assistants a few years earlier, and reportedly based