After reading the first few chapters of the Chinese version of this book, I decided to buy the original one without much hesitation, which was quite, well, very unusually for me who seldom spend money on publications other than magazines or textbooks. My rationale is that since one can simply stand in the bookstore and finish reading one for free, there is no piont as to pay for it; besides, most books would be read for only once and afterwards they just become space-consuming garbage. So how is this one different? First, all the books in foreign languages are plastic-wrapped and I simply had no choice. Second, I insist on reading in English because having the guess “How was it written in origin?” keeping interrupting me is far too unbearable. Last but not the least, the story about fashion industry and a young woman starting her very first career after college was so attractive that I was indulged in reading it once the book has been picked up.
Not quite finishing it yet but I have identified myself with the first narrator, Andrea, a 23-year-old out-of-college girl who had set her mind on writing for The New Yorker but incidentally became the personal assistant of the most powerful woman in fashion. Her boss was Miranda Priestly, the adorable editor of Runway magazine, but at the same time a tough, mean and picky lady. Though lacking any bit of interest in fashion, Andrea decided to settle down at the position - "a job a million girls would die for" - for one year, hoping such experience in her resume would finally bring her to the career she dreamed for. Isn't that just identical to what I am going through? The only reason I am tolerating all those reasonable and unreasonable obligations, from primary care to inserting or removing some stupid tubes into or from someone else’s nostrils or ureters or blood vessels or whatsoever, is to become a resident next year. While Andrea tried so hard to conceal her hostility from her boss, I pretend sweet and tame to the sometimes arrogant nurses. Humiliation just doesn’t count for us who happen to be in the lowest level of the company. While Andrea's family and b/f do not understand why the job had taken her so much time and stressed her so much, I am lucky enough to have intern friends who can share all the upset and curses.
Having those famous brand names and names of designers, models and celebrities floating through is another marvelous experience. I am acquaint with the fashion stuff, and therefore the semi-real setting brought me even more into it. It is such an amusement to see how the real and made-up characters interacted, and with regard to the author’s former job as working for Vogue, I tend to believe that the story she told was at least 90 % based on truth. The book provided me the chance to peer into the mysterious fashion world, and to be honest I was still astonished by the information even though I thought before I had known enough. I had no clue that a simple shot for an issue would take so much preparations and brainstorming, and while a new pair of Gucci sandals is enough to excite me for one month, people in the upper class do their next season selection from catwalk catalogue even before the collection is yet put in production. The book is to disclose the dark side of the fashion industry, but I, on the contrary, found its vanity even more fascinating. I have never wanted a pair of Jimmy Choo so badly in my life.
(to be continued...I am tired.)
Not quite finishing it yet but I have identified myself with the first narrator, Andrea, a 23-year-old out-of-college girl who had set her mind on writing for The New Yorker but incidentally became the personal assistant of the most powerful woman in fashion. Her boss was Miranda Priestly, the adorable editor of Runway magazine, but at the same time a tough, mean and picky lady. Though lacking any bit of interest in fashion, Andrea decided to settle down at the position - "a job a million girls would die for" - for one year, hoping such experience in her resume would finally bring her to the career she dreamed for. Isn't that just identical to what I am going through? The only reason I am tolerating all those reasonable and unreasonable obligations, from primary care to inserting or removing some stupid tubes into or from someone else’s nostrils or ureters or blood vessels or whatsoever, is to become a resident next year. While Andrea tried so hard to conceal her hostility from her boss, I pretend sweet and tame to the sometimes arrogant nurses. Humiliation just doesn’t count for us who happen to be in the lowest level of the company. While Andrea's family and b/f do not understand why the job had taken her so much time and stressed her so much, I am lucky enough to have intern friends who can share all the upset and curses.
Having those famous brand names and names of designers, models and celebrities floating through is another marvelous experience. I am acquaint with the fashion stuff, and therefore the semi-real setting brought me even more into it. It is such an amusement to see how the real and made-up characters interacted, and with regard to the author’s former job as working for Vogue, I tend to believe that the story she told was at least 90 % based on truth. The book provided me the chance to peer into the mysterious fashion world, and to be honest I was still astonished by the information even though I thought before I had known enough. I had no clue that a simple shot for an issue would take so much preparations and brainstorming, and while a new pair of Gucci sandals is enough to excite me for one month, people in the upper class do their next season selection from catwalk catalogue even before the collection is yet put in production. The book is to disclose the dark side of the fashion industry, but I, on the contrary, found its vanity even more fascinating. I have never wanted a pair of Jimmy Choo so badly in my life.
(to be continued...I am tired.)
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maybe i should find a similar book about a young man/woman starting their first career in automobile industry... if i remember correctly, english books being sold at 101 are not sealed in plastic wrap.
Page One離我家太遠 要看免錢書並不方便 不過happy to know this, still 其實我還沒真的進去過Page One耶 每次到101都好趕 光是逛衣服就已經走馬看花了
今天下午去泡圖書館 九月份Vogue說這本書真的要上大螢幕了 Andrea由Anne Hathaway飾演(就是"麻雀變公主"的女主角) Miranda找上演什麼像什麼的Meryl Streep 好期待唷 雖然我覺得Kate Blanchett無論身形或氣質都更貼近我心目中的Miranda
電影版美國已經上映了！ 上禮拜五趁治療室難得的空檔連上網看劇照和premiere的red carpet Cast裡頭發現Gisele Bundchen也軋了一角 還找來Heidi Klum、Bridget Hall這些九零年代的supermodel客串演自己耶 台灣要到九月一日才上院線 反正一年半都等了 也不差這一個月多囉 到時候一定要衝去看！