The film is adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name. The book has been listed on the New York Times bestseller list for 6 months and has been published in 27 countries. The film has been released for two weeks and exceeded $100 million at the box office. The original author Lauren Weiss is largely telling his own personal experience in this novel. In the book, she does not hide her description of the various unfair treatment she has received, and the image of the boss from hell in the book also refers directly to the former "Vogue" editor in real life, Anna. Vitor.
Anna Wintour (Anna Vittor), she once had the power to turn over the clouds and rain in the fashion circle. The book portrays her as a fashion media tyrant who cannot be overbearing, while the rest of the fashion practitioners are just the only slaves under this dictatorship of fashion culture. The fashion conference will not start until she arrives. Designers and models can develop with her favor. She said that if the trend goes to the east, it will not go to the west. She said that the IN will not OUT. Both harsh and stingy...Of course she is indeed a "cruel character." When everyone thought she was insinuating that her novel was going to be made into a movie, she turned to Meryl Stewart, who played herself in the play. Rip said euphemistically: "We two are forged!", and then she warned the "well-known" people in the fashion industry not to participate in the filming of this film.
However, when you watch this movie, you will find that the rumored things are not the main point of this movie. This movie is actually a very old-fashioned light comedy: Andy, a girl who knows nothing about fashion, accidentally enters a top fashion magazine in the world, and then leaves because of the complex, cold and sharp competition here. Even in this ending, we can see the indifferent and fame and fortune moral education, but wearing a fashionable coat, but this coat is sufficiently glamorous and radiant.
The director and costume design of this film are the original crews of the famous fashion TV series "Sex and the City". Naturally, they have a deeper understanding of fashion, so they did not make this film into a flattened, sarcastic fashion that people think. The superficial film of the world. I think the director’s reflection on the fashion industry is very objective and in-depth, without beautification or ugly. It just shows the objective state of existence of these people living in the fashion industry, and what they do is necessary or necessary in this industry. Had to do this. Therefore, at the premiere of the film, when people thought that Anna Vittore would be irritated and yelled at her, she wandered in a PRADA dignifiedly, then held a banquet at the editorial office and announced that she would start writing an autobiography.
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first half of this movie focuses on fashion and interpretation; the second half focuses on the heroine’s mentality changes. This disc (LJ version) in my hand has a very bad translation of some fashion terms. I almost fainted when translating the famous American designer Oscar de la Rent into Oscar de la Hospital. There are many fashion language, more importantly the first half of this movie, which has a very in-depth interpretation of fashion, but for ordinary people, it is possible that because of their ignorance of fashion, they ignore some of the essence of the details. I will take the details that I have seen from this movie and make an incomplete interpretation here.
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all, we must say that fashion survives by being critical. Don't regard being critical as the original sin of fashion. Successful people in the fashion industry, those designer magazine editors, are very picky about details, sometimes to the point of being unbearable, but this is a professional requirement, and their profession requires them to do the same. Fashion is a very delicate and sensitive art, and it is inseparable from the refinement of details. The popular saying: "Details determine success or failure", this is the rule of survival for fashion. And often, they will bring this cutting-edge pursuit of art into their daily lives and become the devil in the eyes of their subordinates.
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, let’s go back to the movie and talk about my interpretation of some of the details:
1: Andy entered the magazine for the first time. Emily saw her and said: Very good, the personnel department really lacks a sense of humor. It is about Andy's dress. We can see that Andy's dress is incompatible with the personality of the magazine, she is very dirty. Everyone in the magazine is fashionable, arrogant and domineering. In fact, it is difficult to say whether it is domineering or domineering in clothes. In fact, it is fashion that dominates. It can be said that fashion is domineering. Fashion is usually not to close the distance with the public, but to pull away. This is why fashion is the representative of identity and grade: a set of fashion can widen the gap between classes; different grades of fashion can also open up the status of different people. I can say that when a person wears high-end fashion clothes all over his body, his vision of others must be different from before, and his mentality will change accordingly. At the very least, he will have a sense of superiority in facing others. It feels, if you make a simple analogy, it's the same as walking in a crowd in a beautiful set of clothes. This is the feeling that fashion gives people, it can give people an upward mental state in the crowd, this is the magic of fashion. In the eyes of others, it is domineering.
2: Andy went to work for the first time, although she dressed up with all her heart, but did not meet the industry requirements at all. Na Qiu kindly gave her a pair of high heels. High-heeled shoes are a must-have professional equipment here, and it is the default guild. You must wear this in this industry. And Andy didn't understand, and only after Miranda gave her a deep look did she understand. We can start from here and see how Andy gradually changed.
3: Andy answered the phone for the first time, she asked the other party: how to spell Gobana? The other party hung up. Of course the other party has to hang up the phone. In a fashion magazine, you don't know who Gobana is? How can this be tolerated! If you don't drop the phone, you have a good attitude! Gabbana is the G of the famous fashion brand D&G: Stefano Gabbana, a famous Italian fashion designer. The Dolce&Gabbana brand is named after the two designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana.
4: The first time at work, Miranda confessed a lot of words to Andy: I want 10-15 samples of Calvin Klein's skirts; and remind Jos that the accessories I need are from Mark On the pony; call Dimasini and so on.
This passage mentions many celebrities: the American CK (CALVIN KLEIN) is a familiar brand; the Mark she mentioned is Marc Jacobs, a famous American designer and the design director of Louis Vuitton; and Finally, Miranda emphasized Dimasini: PATRICK DEMARCHELIER, the world's top French fashion photographer. Note that Miranda called his last name: Dimasini, and Emily called him by his first name. Later, on a phone call about him, this time Andy knew who he was and called his first name: Pike Cui. For such a world-class master, how many design academies showed his work as a teaching material, and even called his name improperly. It can be seen how these little girls are defiant; and Miranda, the fashion media tyrant, even regards this. A lot of world-class celebrities are calling and calling like their subordinates.
5: On the way Andy went to CK, Emily called her: Miranda needs you to go to Xiangli Mansion (Heimes), Miranda and Mozal (Meisel) meet, she will drink hot when she comes back coffee.
Here in Messer, Steven Meisel (Steven Meisel) is a famous American fashion photographer. He also made fashion stories for the Italian version of "VOGUE" and the American version of "VOGUE". The Italian version of "VOGUE" is recognized as the most artistic magazine, and it is an honor to be able to take photos for it. He and Dimasini had a press conference for Valentino who appeared at the back of the film.
6: Dinner, Andy implied satisfied autumn issue of weight loss when Andy asks: They do not eat it? Naqiu said: Since 2 has changed to 4, and 0 has changed to 2. Andy said: I wear size 6. Na Qiu said with a witty expression: Then it will become 14.
What does it mean? What he meant was; since fashion began to become thinner, people's requirement for themselves is to be thinner and thinner. The clothing sizes 2 and 4 are small and plus small, but people always think that they are too fat, and the 2 looks like a size 4. Even if they wear the size 2, they still want to wear a size 0 (size 0). Does not exist). So when Andy said that he was wearing size 6 (medium size), Naqiu told her exaggeratedly that in this circle, size 6 looks no different from the fat lady who wears size 14.
At the beginning, Andy didn't think she had any problems with wearing size 6. Generally, you would not think there was any problem with wearing medium-sized clothes, but for the fashion industry, she was too fat. So when Miranda saw Andy for the first time, she asked Emily: Who is the one who failed to lose weight? And when she and Na Qiu went to the magazine's warehouse, Na Qiugao told her: The clothing number here is only No. 2 and No. 4, which also implies that Andy's figure is outside the fashionable door. And later, when Andy complained to him, Naqiu said: wake up, number 6. In fact, it also means ridicule, which means that she has not realized what industry she is engaged in (as if she is not a person who wears 4# or 2#. This industry wears 4# and 2#).
At Miranda's reception, Andy walked to the door wearing a beautiful dress. Emily said that Andy looked beautiful with jealousy, but Andy just said casually: You look thin. Pay attention, Emily's mood changed all of a sudden, from a sickly face to a glamorous look, and excitedly told Andy how she lost weight... It can be seen how thin is sensitive to fashionistas. And almost at the end, when Naqiu told her that Miranda gave him a new opportunity, he said to Naqiu: I wear size 4. Said that she finally entered this circle completely from the behavior.
7: At the fitting meeting, when Andy's colleagues took out those two belts and said: They are very different. Andy smiled, she didn't think the two belts were different. This is a typical layman. Although these two belts have the same color, their belt heads are different. They have different matching feelings, and matching the same clothes will have different effects. To distinguish these differences and find the best matching, this is The subtleties of stylish details. Andy doesn’t understand fashion matching is a very delicate matter. The details that designers care about, although in the eyes of ordinary people, there is no difference at all, but in the eyes of designers, they are completely different. This is the difference between professional and non-specialist perspectives; so Miranda can see that she is a little annoyed and feels that her ignorance has tainted the professional atmosphere here. The next thing she said was very cruel and humiliated Andy's ignorance of fashion. For
example, if you picked the blue striped sweater, you thought you chose this dress carefully according to your meaning. But first of all, you don’t understand that the dress is neither blue nor turquoise or glaze. In fact, it is sky blue, and you never figured out this fact. In fact, you don’t know that since Oscar in 2002 The sky blue dress appeared for the first time in de la Rent’s press conference, and then I remember that Yves Saint-Langlow also showed the sky blue military uniform series. Soon, sky blue appeared in the next 8 In the designer's press conference, then, it became popular in all major high-end stores around the world, and finally became popular on the streets in a large area, and then you saw you bought it in cheap stores. In fact, this sky blue has generated millions of dollars in profits and countless job opportunities, as well as the incalculable effort paid for it... You feel that the dress you wear is your own choice. I think your choice is outside the fashion industry, but it is not like that. The clothes you wear are actually the people in this room, and the choice for you is from this bunch of things.
This passage is too classic. Miranda deeply explained how fashion affects the world. This passage tells the process of how popular from its cutting-edge high fashion to every ordinary person step by step. This is also the process by which the entire fashion industry dominates everyone's life in the world. How does the fashion world dominate your life?
Every quarter, designers will discover some new ideas, new ideas and new colors. These things are all extracted from a lot of inspiration and information. For example, the sky blue is selected from nearly a hundred blues on the color card, and dozens of similar colors. Then the designer makes clothes and promotes this color; if this color is used by other designers Attention, it will achieve a cutting-edge small-scale fashion; then, the media (magazines) will judge things that may be popular among the works of countless conferences every season, then this blue will be noticed by them. Then, they convey the message that this blue is going to be popular to the public, and these messages will spread quickly, and the major stores will quickly follow up, which has become a popular trend. If this blue is recognized by the public, it means that it has generated millions of dollars in profits and countless job opportunities. Then, among the popular things of the season, some will continue to deepen. After this blue becomes popular in fashion, it will develop in depth, such as appearing on underwear and furnishings, and then becoming a popular color and becoming a daily routine. A part of life is worn on every ordinary person, and when you choose these colors in your life, you never think of how they appear in front of you, and never think that they are all remaining products of fashion. . The color of Andy's sweater is like this. So Miranda said: Don’t think that you have nothing to do with fashion. Every choice you make is a product of fashion; and all your choices are actually chosen on the basis of choices provided by others. And often, the choice of a designer or the editor-in-chief of a magazine determines what kind of clothing you can wear.
Therefore, we can understand how Naqiu told Andy about this magazine, and asked her to understand: "You don't know that the magazine you work for publishes the best works of art? Those works involving masters, It is beyond the imagination that art can achieve, because those things can enter your life... Do you think these things are just magazines? These are not just magazines, for some people they are a beacon of light, you don’t Do you know how many legends this magazine has created? What's worse, you don't even realize that there are so many people in this place who have dedicated their lives for him."...
Miranda's fitting meeting is a key link in the fashion chain. Her choice determines whether the designer's work is ignored or becomes popular; to a large extent, it also determines the next quarter's wear of most people in the world, and dominates the trend of the world. This is the charm of having the power to dominate fashion.
8: After Andy went home to her boyfriend complained: how we worshiped the gods Jingruo her vote?
Every quarter, designers release a large number of works, but to a large extent, designers only provide. Which ones are popular are decided by fashion editors and big buyers in the hands of the audience. Picking out popular things from a large number of works is a very keen tactile test. It’s not that good-looking things will become popular. What’s popular is something that’s fresh and characteristic; but not all things that are fresh and characteristic will become popular. It must be able to attract the greatest attention in the world, and more than that. It must also arouse people's strong desire to buy; and a fashion editor must accurately judge from these tens of thousands of beautiful clothes which are the most cutting-edge fashion, which will bring the most widespread popularity and the most profit. , And can’t go wrong. The fashion industry is a cruel industry, and there is no room for more than one failure. This is not a simple matter. Miranda's success is not based on harshness or cruelty, but on accurate judgments of fashion time and time again. This kind of fashion acumen, most of which cannot be learned and cannot be imitated.
Every time Miranda successfully promotes a fashion product in a magazine, tens of thousands of profits are generated behind it. If she fails, it means the same loss of profits; more importantly, fashion is the dominant one. Trendy, once you can't lead the trend and lose an accurate judgment on the trend, you will be eliminated immediately. This is the cruelty of the fashion industry. Those who can sit here in a high-end position are not simple people. They can't do it without the ability. And this ability is your fashion acumen and the accuracy of fashion judgment. When you choose one from thousands of clothes, it becomes popular and brings thousands of profits; or knows the hero with insight, discovers an unknown designer into a person who can bring huge profits, and creates A new legend, who doesn't admire you more? Even if you are a devil.
So far, Anna Vittor is still the editor-in-chief of "Vogue". Later, "Vogue" also made a documentary about her work from her own perspective and posted it online. However, many designers in the same period have withdrawn from the arena, such as Valentino and Galliano. In fact, the reason is very simple. It is said in the movie: when people are old, they will feel sluggish and can't bring new things, and people constantly need to update more exciting things, so they will be eliminated sooner or later. This is the cruelty of the fashion industry, everyone will get old, but fashion is always young. This is also the reason why people in the fashion industry are particularly afraid of old age, and they can better understand what it means to be ruthless years. Andy is still in this industry because of her great desire for power, the means of stepping on others, and the aesthetic nature. Talent is very important. It is irreplaceable in this industry, and it cannot be compensated by hard work.
This movie is a good fashion education class. Even if you don’t understand that much, it can be used as a guide for dressing and matching. There are a lot of beautiful fashions and accessories. For the introduction of the clothes, here is an article. There are a lot of them, so I won’t introduce them separately. Let me give you a link. If you’re interested, you can read it yourself: http://www.mov8.com/dvd/freetalk_show.asp?id=40107
This book has a Chinese version, but Currently out of stock nationwide.
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