by Liz Brewster

Created on: January 14, 2007   Last Updated: May 09, 2007

I first saw The Devil Wears Prada while I was in America during the summer. It wasn't something I would have picked myself, due to thinking that it was all going to be about fashion and shoes and bags and all that kinda thing that really doesn't interest me. But I did see it, and I did enjoy it. I was given the book as a gift for Christmas, so I thought it was time to revisit the movie to see how well it had made the changeover.

* Plot *
Andrea Sachs is a small town gal trying to make it in the big bad city. An aspiring author, she's fresh out of college and looking for an editorial job somewhere. When Andrea first walks into the Runway offices, she knows nothing about fashion, and doesn't particularly care to know either. Through some twisted hand of fate, the fashion-naive Andrea ends up as the junior assistant to the most powerful woman in the fashion industrial - a rather controlling woman by the name of Miranda Priestly, Editor in Chief of Runway magazine. The job has absolutely nothing to do with the journalistic career Andrea is yearning for, but, and this is what really gains her interest, one year working with Miranda Priestly will land her any job any where - including her dream job as a journalist with the New Yorker. It's only a year, how hard can it be?

Turns out, very! Miranda is quite possibly the most demanding boss ever, running a very tight ship - everything must be perfectly executed and fulfilled within minutes of her very vague instructions - 'I need 10-15 skirts. That's all.'- and heaven forbid you ever leave the phones unmanned! It's a job millions of girls would die for, but unfortunately Andrea isn't one of them, and getting through those twelve months becomes the bane of her life.

After a few months of comments about her clothes, shoes, hair, and weight, Andrea starts to get into their way of thinking, and befriends Nigel (one of the fashion coordinators) develops a wardrobe that is finally acceptable, learns to style her hair , wears the right shoes, and allows the job to take over her entire life. In the process, of course, the rest of her life falls apart - similar story with her boyfriend who decides they need a break; she even loses what makes her 'Andrea'. But surely it's worth it; it's the job a million girls would die for after all.

The biggest fashion event of the year is held in Paris every year. The senior assistant, Emily, usually goes, but circumstances unravel that mean Andrea is the one who gets to go, even after Emily has

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