DOES THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA…
In class few weeks back, we watched a movie that exemplified myth in the real world, like the fashion world. It was ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ with Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and many more. It was based on a book of the same title by Lauren Weisberger. The idea of watching this movie is to see how icons of the fashion world are regarded as “rockstars” who live life on the fast lane especially in a never-stopping city like New York.
The movie being about glamour and fashion, the first impression of the fashion world is likely to be “hectic” and “aloof”. It is not wrong to say people who venerate characters of the fashion world tend to believe these people are from a higher hierarchical level. This movie gives us a more diverse view towards the glamorous world of styles and trends. Although, the diva editor of the trendy fashion magazine Runway, Ms. Miranda Priestly, who is portrayed as an unforgiving and egoistical woman, she concedes to being thought of as cold and distant yet most admirable. On the other hand the main character Andy or Andrea Sachs takes on a more nonchalant approach to the fashion world because she has no clue or interest about it in the beginning and wants only to work her way up to the top with great will power. Despite her private life falling apart she managed to achieve her goal the ordinary way, by hard work. By this placing such a rooted, down-to-earth character like Andy Sachs in a fast-paced movie with posh settings and outrageous characters, it symbolizes that the fashion world where ambitions take so much to achieve and is believed to be “unreachable” is actually attainable.
After watching the movie though, the only question isn’t about ethics and measures people are willing to take to achieve their goals or protect their positions especially in a cutthroat industry like fashion. Other questions that make me think are such as how real these people actually are under their business-like exterior. Even now in today’s world, not only in the fashion world but in music, media, advertising and other industries, the ‘rock stars’ or ‘legends’ such as Steve Jobs of the iconic Apple Inc, are all real human beings with emotions, strengths and weaknesses too. They are only ‘myths’ or ‘legends’ because today’s society made them so.
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