Devil wears Prada

Okay, I know, everyone saw the movie. It's a classic. But today, I'm gonna talk about the book. Cause, if they made a movie, don't you think the book was terrific?

First, it's a big book: 360 pages. But relax, it's write so good you don't see them come. The langage is just right: you totaly identify Andrea, the main character. The story got just the good tempo to keep you on alert: Andrea tells you her story but she gives you just the right number of details.

It takes us right into the top of the fashion world: at the head of Runway, the number one of fashion periodics. Andrea got the chance of her life to achieve her dream when she got hired as assistant of Miranda Priestly, the redactor in chief of Runway. Everyone keep telling her that millions of girls would dream to be at her place, but in reality, her job is just harassing. She got good and expensive clothes, but she has to work twelve hours a day for a tyrannical boss. She has no time for a her boyfriend anymore or for her best friend, that is slowly turning into an alcoholic.

This book also give you a "right" vision of the fashion world: yeah, there are great success stories in this world, people you should take as inspiration. But like in every world before you get on the top you gotta work hard. And even if those people look good on paper, it doesn't mean they are "nice" people: they are most of the time full of hypocrisy. It made you reflect more about your dreams, about what you really want. I think that's the thing Lauren Weisberger is trying to tell us with this book.

Lauren Weisberger worked for Vogue, more precisely for Anna Wintour: it inspires her for this book. I felt while reading it that the story is like a mix of experience and fiction, in the most perfect way.

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