Meryl Streep’s The Devil Wears Prada, is a very criticized film regarding feminism, fashion, and health. Which are the most important aspects in being editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine (as depicted by the film). The Devil Wears Prada painfully breaks down what it is like to be centerfold and thrusted into the middle of the high-fashion world (as a person with no idea about fashion). Many of these biases are articulated through the book the movie was based off, The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger, who was formerly a part of the world of high-fashion as an assistant herself, to the prestigious Vogue magazine editor-in-chief we have today, Anna Wintor.
Miranda Priestly: “You have no sense of fashion...”
Andy Sachs: “I think that depends …show more content…
Andy (the main character), an average girl (who depicts us viewers or the aspiring), is pressured from her peers at work to look a certain way to be accepted. And when she does conform she begins to receive more respect from her co-workers and begins to get sucked into the life of fashion. All the while beginning to lose the friends around her, her boyfriend, and her family. Forcing fashion to become her lifeblood and putting nothing else before fashion. Andy puts a face on the idiom “I eat, sleep, breathe, fashion.” A term fitted to a fashion editor-in-chief. The female’s (Andy’s) progression in her career shares the same as the progressive cliché male. …show more content…
She must be skinny with impeccable skin gleaming eyes and bright white smile. In return fashion magazines have been a big cause in teen eating disorders and bullying. Magazines promote the image of the standard level of beauty, constantly producing this concept and look to the world that unconsciously receive these messages. And once they see someone who is not they most often resort to calling them ugly. Ugly. What exactly is ugly? Whatever it may be, the visual representation is not shown in magazines. Therefore, people associate the visual representation of not being ugly as being in a magazine. The word “ugly” leads to that person looking at themselves, then looking at a visual representation of what is not ugly (what a magazine editor feels like is socially acceptable) and begin to chip away at themselves to look exactly that way. This leads to nationwide depression and suicide, all because and editor and chief of a magazine (one person) agrees and has the final say in what goes out to the seeing eyes of the public. And then is plastered on every wall and
Miranda Priestly: “You have no sense of fashion...”
Andy Sachs: “I think that depends …show more content…
Andy (the main character), an average girl (who depicts us viewers or the aspiring), is pressured from her peers at work to look a certain way to be accepted. And when she does conform she begins to receive more respect from her co-workers and begins to get sucked into the life of fashion. All the while beginning to lose the friends around her, her boyfriend, and her family. Forcing fashion to become her lifeblood and putting nothing else before fashion. Andy puts a face on the idiom “I eat, sleep, breathe, fashion.” A term fitted to a fashion editor-in-chief. The female’s (Andy’s) progression in her career shares the same as the progressive cliché male. …show more content…
She must be skinny with impeccable skin gleaming eyes and bright white smile. In return fashion magazines have been a big cause in teen eating disorders and bullying. Magazines promote the image of the standard level of beauty, constantly producing this concept and look to the world that unconsciously receive these messages. And once they see someone who is not they most often resort to calling them ugly. Ugly. What exactly is ugly? Whatever it may be, the visual representation is not shown in magazines. Therefore, people associate the visual representation of not being ugly as being in a magazine. The word “ugly” leads to that person looking at themselves, then looking at a visual representation of what is not ugly (what a magazine editor feels like is socially acceptable) and begin to chip away at themselves to look exactly that way. This leads to nationwide depression and suicide, all because and editor and chief of a magazine (one person) agrees and has the final say in what goes out to the seeing eyes of the public. And then is plastered on every wall and