the devil wears prada

i read the book abt 3 years ago, ovlivious to the furore that was taking place behind its bitchy, gossipy pages. i nevertheless enjoyed my brief encounter with new york's glamorous, hyped-up fashion industry. i am a girl after all, and the book is peppered generously with beautiful clothes and the latest va-va-voom fashions. you need to use your imagination, and at least have regular binges of fashion magazine to truly enjoy the decadent lifestyle it portrays. if you're on teh right side of the fashion tracks, that is.

imagine my glee in finding out the movie version was being made - i get to feast my eyes on everything fashionable and beautiful. so i watched it last saturday (to ad's chagrin) and i must say, i did enjoy it for the most part. a girl can never resist beautiful images of beautiful things! it's the most fashionable movie i've seen. i am still drolling over andy's (the protagonist) tweed chanel coat. not to mention her borrowed manolos.



but i need to gripe about said devil's hair! i cannot imagine a fashion editor (in this case, a thinly veiled representation of anna wintour, editor of fashoin bible vogue) with white, un-dyed hair. it's so not done. and although meryl streep's character, miranda priestly looks sophisticated and pruned, i wouldn't say she's taking advantage of her lofty front row perch in every fashion show. her dressing is a bit blah to me. i much prefer andy's makeover in chanel, chloe and what not.

i read about the great wintour's icy fury over the book, written by her former assistant, lauren weisberger. too close to home truths? anyway, it's a well-known fact that anna wintour is the reigning ice queen in the fashoin world, never too shy to wield her power over the world of publication and hollywood. it's said that she's threathened any designer or model that they would be banished from the hallowed pages of vogue if any of them appeared in cameo roles in the film. i raise my hat to gisele bundchen and valentino who made their thespian appearance despite this threat. gisele of course is gisele; she has no need for wintour's endorsements anymore, being the supermodel.

anna wintour in a rare picture sans her trademark chanel sunglasses

needless to say, many reviewers (who might have hopes in gaining the ice queen's nod) have trashed the book and the movie. it's only the laymen like us who love it. who love every thread of luxury-bleeding fabric portrayed in the movie, which we can ill afford!

my favourite character is of course, emily, the bitchy, sarcastic 1st assistant. what a fun role to play! but i would say the ugly duckling is more the fashion maven than she, after her much needed makeover.

a fun, gossipy movie that's sure to make you walk into the prada store this weekend.