Anna Carey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I mean, it's a guilty pleasure as a
Well, that's true.
I do not really believe in guilty pleasures.
But yeah, even from my teenage years, I could both like see that the fashion industry is very unethical.
But I love fashion shoots and I love fashion magazines.
And I still have a subscription to the French edition of Elle magazine.
Like I'm still engaged in it in a critical way sometimes.
But yeah.
You know, this is something that I find, it's catnip to me.
Anything set in a magazine, anything about a magazine, anything with the fashion shoes in it, I'm there.
So it's about this girl called Andy Sachs, who's played by Anne Hathaway.
And she's a recent graduate and she's turned down a place at Stanford Law School to forge a career in journalism.
But the only job she could get is assistant to Miranda Priestley, who is the editor of Vogue.
I mean, runway magazine.
which is a thinly disguised version of Vogue.
And despite knowing nothing about fashion or indeed having bothered to look at the magazine before she got the job, I have feelings about this lack of professionalism, she gets the job with Miranda Priestley, who's played by Meryl Streep.
And it's a kind of almost a Faust story where you see, is Andy going to sell her soul to be part of this glamorous world where everyone's very ruthless and...
And where Miranda will, as it turns out, you know, stop at nothing to keep her throne.
She was the editor of American Vogue and now she stepped down from that role.
But she's like the, you know, chief creative queen of Condé Nast, which are the massive publishers that publish Vogue internationally.