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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

For years.

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

And I actually, I think this is what's interesting in that the film is a snapshot of sort of the last hurrah of that sort of print magazine editor.

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

Like there's a bit where a designer does a sort of presentation of his forthcoming collection that isn't even, you know, it's not even finalised yet.

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

And she gives her verdict on it.

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

And Stanley Tucci's character says to Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci is Nigel, who's kind of the creative director, art director of the magazine editor.

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

says her opinion is the only one that matters.

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

Now, that is not the case for anyone in sort of legacy media now.

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

You know, the landscape has changed so much, but this film is a sort of snapshot.

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

You know, not necessarily a very accurate snapshot all the time, but in that sense... But those glossy magazines had incredible power, incredible money.

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

That's the bit that has really, in terms of, you know, I don't think they'd do it now.

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

Now we'll see, because, you know, I haven't seen the new film yet and it's very embargoed, but...

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

Yeah, there's a lot of stuff about Anne Hathaway supposedly, essentially being fat.

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

And like she says in it, that she's a size six, which is an Irish UK size 10.

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

You know, she is not, then or now, by any stretch of the imagination, large.

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

But first of all, they're sort of saying she's not slender.

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

That's the word that's used a lot.

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

And it's clearly a bad thing.

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

And there's a bit later on where...

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

Stanley Tucci says to her, like, you bet your size six ass.

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

And she sort of does a cheeky wink and is like, four.