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Imagine you are fresh out of college, and want a career in Journalism. You see an advertisement of a job most fashion conscious writers would kill for, although to you it is just a way in to that final aim of becoming a journalist. This is the situation that Andrea, (Anne Hathaway), finds herself in, although the job she had in mind is very different to the opportunity which presents itself as Assistant to the Editor in Chief of Runway magazine.

At the beginning of the film, we see her going for her interview, and the interview being interrupted by the entrance of the boss, Miranda Priestley (played by Meryl Street), which should have given poor Andrea some idea of what she could expect working for a tyrant who literally scared most of the staff that work for her into a chaotic arrangement of seeming calm whenever Miranda appeared on the scene. She is the Editor in Chief of Runway Magazine, and a career magnate.

Telling you where the story goes would be a shame, as you need to discover this for yourself, although it does have morals to tell, and the introduction of many characters along the way. The film is an award winning combination of skill nominated for costume design, Leading Role, Best Edited Feature Film (and here the work was amazing), and won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in Motion Picture, and really did merit it.

So what is all about ?

More important than the story line itself is the weaving of characters to make it work, and here the display of priorities of people working in the fashion industry was both funny and I would imagine to a certain extent true. The struggle for top jobs, the jealousy, and the competition between different fashion houses and the manner in which the competition is eliminated are both funny and poignant, sad and strange, although realistical in their portrait. Meryl Streeps performance relied heavily upon the charisma of the character, and her part in the film was amazingly strong. Whereas many films of this nature portray power by personalities that are loud and overpowering, her part was strong because of its dismissal of this traditional concept, and the creation of a larger than life character, whose calm is incredible, though who can create exactly what she wants to create, simply because she is who she is.

I enjoyed the film enormously, and thought that Meryl Streep excelled herself. I also liked the fight to get top jobs, and although I have never worked in the fashion industry, can actually imagine

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