Can I just ask how almost everyone commenting here has seen the movie? It doesn't open until Friday, right? Are you all insiders? (personally the idea of seeing a movie that glorifies such horrible people doing such trivial things doesn't appeal to me)
@Edward Lionheart: Oh no, you have to go see the movie. It's fascinating on many levels, as an inside look at the fashion industry, a look at power struggles in the workplace, Bee Shaffer! It's really quite good.
Saw this at the Paley Center last week with Grace & Andre Leon Talley. She is fantastic & totally stole the movie; everyone was talking about it after the screening. Fern Mallis was there & asked a non-question about whether or not RJ realized he was dealing with the star (who is a fantastic, wonderful, smart, funny, etc etc lady). It was an interesting moment to be a fashion 'outsider' and see that.
Also, there were old Vogue employees in the audience, too. Something of note: apparently everyone that works at Vogue is British.
But American Vogue is a total snore, a boring, predictable magazine (with the exception of the musings of Mr. Talley) that I gave up reading a while ago, and not because of any intellectual pretense: you'll never meet a bigger clotheshorse/shoe whore/magpie/devotee of glamour if you live to be a hundred, but it is just too disappointing to bother with, even at $12 a year for a subscription.
@antisocialite: You're trying to counsel MoDo to lay off the cliches?! HAHAHAHAHAHA!! You might as well try and get Courtney Love to lay off the cray-zee.
I wouldn't canonise Coddington just yet. When I worked at Vogue, she treated us copy grunts the same way Wintour, and the rest of the fashion team, did: with the same respect as they did the janitorial staff. Art, schmart--you can still acknowledge my presence with a thank-you when I'm handing you galleys.
@if_i_only_had_a_heart: Ha, seconded! I don't know what it's like to jump in a dress (I do), but also GQ with their celebrity-in-a-suit feature. Just, settle down.
It should always be borne in mind, when writing these TLDR posts, that these people make a once-monthly magazine about clothes. On the list of "important people doing important things," this ranks pretty low.
@TheHonJudgeSmails: When I consider how much time this website has devoted to making us hate Arthur Kade, Eric Schaefer, and Jakob Lodwick, I find this forgivable.
I saw this film back at the start of July when it was shown at a film festival in Ireland. Grace is radiant in it, a true artist. I have a feeling she's about to have a very big moment - although I can imagine she could care less about that...
@chrunk: Good call, especially because that puts Anna in the role of her older half-sister, Queen "Bloody" Mary, which is coincidentally probably the only food Anna ever eats.
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Also, there were old Vogue employees in the audience, too. Something of note: apparently everyone that works at Vogue is British.
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But American Vogue is a total snore, a boring, predictable magazine (with the exception of the musings of Mr. Talley) that I gave up reading a while ago, and not because of any intellectual pretense: you'll never meet a bigger clotheshorse/shoe whore/magpie/devotee of glamour if you live to be a hundred, but it is just too disappointing to bother with, even at $12 a year for a subscription.
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I love how they alluded to Coddington in casting the stunning Rebecca Mader in The Devil Wears Prada.
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No. but I can....
Copper-headed, carrot-topped, etc. In the UK, Grace was probably called "ginger-haired" -- a good reason for moving to the States.
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