What ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Taught Us About Ambition

In Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett

02/23/24 • 59 min

What did a generation of strivers learn about what it means to get ahead from “The Devil Wears Prada”? Was Miranda Priestly, the famed and famously demanding fashion editor at the center of the movie – in many ways the original “girlboss” – an aspirational or cautionary figure? In this episode, Susie and Jess revisit the blockbuster 2006 film and talk about their own careers and changing relationships to ambition.

GUEST:

Samhita Mukhopadhyay, former executive editor at Teen Vogue and author of the upcoming book, The Myth of Making It

FOR MORE:

The Devil Wears Prada Oral History (Entertainment Weekly)
The Demise of the Girlboss (New York Magazine)
The Girlboss Has Left the Building (The Atlantic)

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02/23/24 • 59 min

In Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett - What ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Taught Us About Ambition

Transcript

Speaker 100:00:01.320

There's a scene at the end of The Devilware's Prada where the character Miranda Priestley, a famed and famously demanding fashion editor, gives her young assistant Andy a rare compliment.

Speaker 200:00:12.000

I see a great deal of myself and you.

Speaker 100:00:14.759

This comment comes after a turning point in the movie where Miranda has just saved her own career by brutally betray

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