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Anna Carey

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Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

I mean, it's a guilty pleasure as a

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

Well, that's true.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

I do not really believe in guilty pleasures.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

But yeah, even from my teenage years, I could both like see that the fashion industry is very unethical.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

But I love fashion shoots and I love fashion magazines.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

And I still have a subscription to the French edition of Elle magazine.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

Like I'm still engaged in it in a critical way sometimes.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

But yeah.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

You know, this is something that I find, it's catnip to me.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

Anything set in a magazine, anything about a magazine, anything with the fashion shoes in it, I'm there.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

So it's about this girl called Andy Sachs, who's played by Anne Hathaway.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

And she's a recent graduate and she's turned down a place at Stanford Law School to forge a career in journalism.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

But the only job she could get is assistant to Miranda Priestley, who is the editor of Vogue.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

I mean, runway magazine.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

which is a thinly disguised version of Vogue.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

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.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

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...

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

And where Miranda will, as it turns out, you know, stop at nothing to keep her throne.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

She was the editor of American Vogue and now she stepped down from that role.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

But she's like the, you know, chief creative queen of Condé Nast, which are the massive publishers that publish Vogue internationally.