Anne Hathaway WALKS OUT of Vanity Fair photoshoot (while still in hair and make-up!) in solidarity with Condé Nast Union’s protest over layoffs

Anne Hathaway left a Vanity Fair photo shoot Tuesday morning as she showed support for the Condé Nast Union walkout.

Variety reports that the Oscar-winning actress, 41, was “in hair and makeup” when her team “was notified by a SAG-AFTRA employee to advise Hathaway to support the work stoppage.”

Hathaway was said to be unaware of the work stoppage when she originally arrived at the shoot in New York City.

A source told the publication: “They hadn’t even started taking pictures yet. Once Anne was aware of what was going on, she just got up from hair and makeup and left.”

DailyMail.com has contacted Hathaway’s representatives for comment.

Hundreds of union workers at Condé Nast, the parent company behind legacy publications such as Vogue and Vanity Fair, walked out on Tuesday in protest against threatened layoffs.

As part of the NewsGuild campaign, 400 employees walked off the job on the news-packed day of Academy Award nominations and presidential primary voting.

The union urged people not to cross the digital picket line by not visiting Conde Nast sites, which also include GQ, Bon Appetit, Glamour, Architectural Digest and Teen Vogue.

Protesters chanted, “Bosses wear Prada, workers get nada!”

The industrial action comes after the company’s CEO, Roger Lynch, said last fall it would lay off five percent of its total workforce – about 300 employees.

Facing protests from the union, Conde Nast later said it would instead lay off 94 members of the guild, about 20 percent of the union’s total workforce. Negotiations are ongoing.

The New York chapter of NewsGuild has filed a complaint with the federal labor board against Conde Nast.

“The past nearly three months of fighting for our colleagues on the company’s layoff list have led us to today,” said Ben Dewey, an employee and representative of the Conde Nast Union.

Conde Nast laid off more than half of the staff at Pitchfork on Wednesday, including Editor-in-Chief Puja Patel and Editor-in-Chief Jill Mapes.

Condé Nast, which bought Pitchfork in 2015, is merging the publication into GQ.

Anna Wintour reportedly wore her signature sunglasses as she fired nearly half the staff at Pitchfork.

The 74-year-old editor-in-chief of Vogue was criticized online by her now former employees, who called the move indecent and disgusting.

“An absolutely bizarre detail from this week is that Anna Wintour — who was sitting at a conference table inside — didn’t take off her sunglasses while telling us we were about to be canned,” wrote Allison Hussey, a former Pitchfork writer. staff, on X.

“The incivility we have seen from upper management this week is appalling.”

The tweet, posted Friday morning, has already received nearly 300,000 views and hundreds of retweets online.

The company announced the move in a memo to its employees.

The decision “was made after a careful review of Pitchfork’s performance and what we believe is the best path forward for the brand so that our music coverage can continue to flourish across the company,” said Wintour, Chief Content Officer and Global Editorial Director from Conde Nast. of Vogue, wrote in a memo to staff.

Mapes, a features editor who was fired, stated on Twitter: “I’ve described my job at Pitchfork as ‘sitting on a Ferris wheel at closing time waiting for them to pull me down.’

‘After almost eight years I had to deal with massive layoffs. I’m glad we were able to spend that time trying to make it a less dudey place so GQ could take the helm,” Mapes added.

In 2020, magazine publisher Condé Nast, owner of Vogue, GQ and The New Yorker, came under fire when it laid off nearly 100 employees in the US following a sharp decline in advertising revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The cuts were announced in an internal memo that also said that fewer than 100 other staffers would be temporarily furloughed and that “a handful” of the company’s roughly 2,700 staffers would have reduced work schedules.

“Not all teams will be equally affected by these actions. That doesn’t mean some teams are more valuable to us than others,” Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch said at the time. “We tried to identify specific areas where we could reduce our costs without limiting our growth priorities.”

Also that year, Condé Nast announced in a separate memo that employees making more than $100,000 would take a 10 to 20 percent pay cut.

“These decisions are never easy, and not something I ever take lightly. “I want to be transparent about the principles and approach we have taken,” Lynch added.

Dailymail.com reached out to Conde Nast but did not receive a response.