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  • Truth is, there is no one that can do what I do.”

  • Miranda Priestly is theperfectionist mindset

  • brought to life in one person.

  • The iconic Editor in Chief of Runway, a publication resembling Vogue,

  • knows exactly what she wants and exactly HOW she wants it.

  • For the fortieth time, no.

  • I don't want dacquoise,

  • I want tortes filled with warm rhubarb compote.”

  • No detail is too small for Miranda.

  • If I see freesias anywhere...

  • I will be very disappointed.”

  • And no excuse is acceptable for failing to meet her high standards.

  • “I actually did confirm last night—”

  • Details of your incompetence do not interest me.”

  • The devil in The Devil Wears Prada is supposedly the villain of this story.

  • Meryl Streep is the bad guy.

  • You never see it coming.”

  • Yet her pursuit of excellence also makes her a role model

  • for working women everywhere.

  • Here's our Take on how channeling Miranda's perfectionism

  • will make you the consummate professional,

  • if you're willing to pay the price.

  • That's all.”

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  • Perfectionism is defined as striving for flawlessness,

  • and being extremely critical when that bar isn't met.

  • “I saw the pictures that he sent for that feature

  • on the female paratroopers and they're all so deeply unattractive

  • The image that sticks in most people's minds is

  • the CHAOS that ensues before Miranda's arrival at work.

  • She's on her way.

  • Tell everyone.”

  • So before we even meet this character,

  • this portrait of how she impacts her environment

  • tells us she runs the tightest of ships,

  • and her expectation of perfection

  • motivates her entire staff to be better than they are.

  • “I asked for clean, athletic, smiling.

  • She sent me dirty, tired and paunchy.”

  • While everyone is always scrambling and struggling

  • to get things right for Miranda,

  • she herself never appears out of control.

  • She always maintains a precise mental picture of the plan.

  • “I want the driver to drop me off at 9:30

  • and pick me up at 9:45 sharp.”

  • She also has an encyclopedic knowledge of her industry.

  • One thought I had was enamel.

  • Um, bangles, pendants, earrings.”

  • No.

  • We did that two years ago.

  • What else?”

  • Thus, the picture that emerges is that Miranda is on a higher level

  • than everyone else, and far from lowering herself

  • to be understood by mere mortals, she demands that others keep up.

  • “I need 10 or 15 skirts from Calvin Klein.”

  • What kind of skirts do you—”

  • Please bore someone else with your questions.”

  • Her first name even comes from the Latin mirandus,

  • meaningwonderful, marvelous, worthy of admiration.”

  • We deliver it to Miranda's apartment every night, and she retu

  • Don't touch it.

  • She returns it to us

  • in the morning with her notes.”

  • There are three distinct types of perfectionism:

  • Self-oriented perfectionism, which means having high standards

  • for yourself and being self-critical when you fall short.

  • Socially-prescribed perfectionism, which is the feeling that you need

  • to live up to external expectations for validation.

  • And other-oriented perfectionism, which means expecting perfection

  • from others and being highly judgmental of their performance.

  • Miranda is a textbook illustration of other-oriented perfectionism.

  • Why is no one ready?”

  • She accepts nothing less than the best from her employees

  • and eviscerates them when they don't meet that standard.

  • It's just baffling to me.

  • Why is it so impossible to put together

  • a decent run-through?

  • You people have had

  • hours and hours to prepare.

  • It's just so confusing to me.”

  • As a boss, she creates an environment where everyone lives

  • in a constant state of terror.

  • But on another level, Miranda's exacting standards

  • have a very positive effect.

  • We can see the beneficial results of Miranda's mentorship

  • in the transformation of her assistant, the movie's protagonist, Andy.

  • Let's take a minute to look at who Andy is when the movie begins.

  • She's woefully unprepared for her job interview,

  • Who's Miranda?”

  • Oh, my God.

  • I will pretend you did not just ask me that.”

  • So you don't read Runway?”

  • Uh, no.”

  • she has no real experience outside of her college newspaper,

  • nor can she find work anywhere else,

  • Basically, it's this or Auto Universe.”

  • and she has a condescending, “holier-than-thouattitude about fashion.

  • Because this place, where so many people

  • would die to work, you only deign to work.”

  • We know this young woman is smart and passionate.

  • She's willing to give up

  • what would be a more secure career path

  • in order to pursue her dream of writing.

  • “I'm just trying to understand why someone who got accepted

  • to Stanford Law turns it down to be a journalist.”

  • But she hasn't really accomplished anything yet when she arrives at Runway.

  • What she learns from Miranda, is excellence.

  • Call my husband and confirm dinner.”

  • At Pastis?

  • Done.”

  • And I'll need a change of clothes.”

  • Well, I've already messengered your outfit over to the shoot.”

  • Andy starts off not understanding the importance of details.

  • The amount of time and energy that these people spend

  • on these insignificant, minute details, and for what?”

  • This lesson is epitomized in the scene at the run-through,

  • where she doesn't see any difference between two belts.

  • Both those belts look exactly the same to me.”

  • To Miranda, there is a glaring difference.

  • And to underline her point that details are everything,

  • she picks apart Andy's outfit

  • What you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue.

  • It's not turquoise.

  • It's not lapis.

  • It's actually cerulean.”

  • proving to this young woman how an eye for detail is key

  • to unlocking a big-picture understanding of the world.

  • That blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs.

  • And it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts

  • you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing a sweater

  • that was selected for you by the people in this room.”

  • The other key skill Miranda teaches Andy is resourcefulness.

  • We have all the published Harry Potter books.

  • The twins want to know what happens next.”

  • You want the unpublished manuscript?”

  • When you have someone standing over you demanding the impossible,

  • you're forced to find a way to make it happen.

  • “I know it's impossible to get but, well, I was wondering if you

  • could make the impossible possible.

  • If that's at all possible.”

  • Andy surprises herself with what she can accomplish

  • under intense pressure.

  • It's Ambassador Franklin, and that's the woman

  • that he left his wife for, Rebecca.”

  • What we keep hearing throughout the movie

  • is that working for Miranda will open any career door.

  • You work a year for her, and you can get a job at any magazine you want.”

  • At first we might think this is because of Runway's prestige,

  • but we come to realize that it's even more so about the qualities

  • that working for Miranda instills in you: resilience, a tireless work ethic,

  • and the commitment to go above and beyond.

  • Oh, no, I made two copies and had them covered, reset and bound

  • so that they wouldn't look like manuscripts.

  • This is an extra copy to have on file.

  • You know, just in case.”

  • By the end, Andy emerges as a capable professional

  • ready to go after her dream of being a journalist

  • something she wasn't equipped for at the beginning.

  • Lauren Weisberger, who wrote the book that The Devil Wears Prada

  • is based on after her stint as an assistant at Vogue,

  • has said that in spite of her struggles there, it was

  • one of the most valuable times of [her] career

  • because she got to learn from high-powered people

  • at the top of their game.

  • In addition to these valuable skills imparted by Miranda,

  • there's one key thing that Andy and Miranda have in common

  • from the beginning: self-respect.

  • When Andy starts at Runway, Miranda's senior assistant is Emily.

  • “I hope you know that this is a very difficult job

  • for which you are totally wrong.

  • And if you mess up,

  • my head is on the chopping block.”

  • Emily seems far more suited for this job, as she is fully committed to the work,

  • has a passion for fashion and worships the ground Miranda walks on.

  • She's the editor in chief of Runway, not to mention a legend.”

  • But what she lacks is Andy's sense of self.

  • Emily would never dare to talk back to Miranda

  • or assert herself in a meaningful way

  • You may never ask Miranda anything.”

  • which is what Andy does.

  • Despite her poor performance at the job interview,

  • Andy refuses to be dismissed.

  • “I'm smart, I learn fast, and I will work very hard.”

  • And her faith in herself prompts Miranda to give her a second look.

  • The reason Andy's self-assurance sparks Miranda's interest

  • is that it reminds her of herself.

  • There you are, Emily.

  • How many times do I have to scream your name?”

  • “A-actually, it's Andy.”

  • It's a key part of her perfectionist identity.

  • You, with that impressive resume and the big speech

  • about your so-called work ethic, I, um, I thought you would be different.”

  • Through Miranda, the movie highlights the double standards

  • that working women face in their pursuit of perfection.

  • In the book, Weisberger based the Miranda character on her old boss,

  • Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour.

  • But for her performance in the film, Streep went in a different direction

  • by channeling men she knew in Hollywood, starting with Clint Eastwood.

  • The fact that you don't raise your voice makes you much more scary.”

  • “I got that from Clint Eastwood.”

  • Ohh

  • He never raises his voice on the set,

  • and there's no one more sort of intimidating.”

  • Streep explained that Eastwood's quiet tone of voice requires everyone

  • tolean in to listen,” thereby making him

  • the most powerful person in the room.”

  • [Whispers] “Have you gotten my note?”

  • Meanwhile she's said that Mike Nichols, who directed her in movies

  • like Silkwood and Heartburn, inspired Miranda's

  • biting wit and her ability to be both mean AND funny.

  • They're showing a lot of florals right now, so I was thinking I could—”

  • Florals?

  • For spring?

  • Groundbreaking.”

  • Many women of Miranda's generation had to develop a hard shell

  • to survive in a male-dominated workplace.

  • The conversation of a raise is not inappropriate at this moment,

  • but do not be timid.

  • You presented like a man, now act like one.”

  • And they often had no choice but to emulate men in order to be accepted.

  • Do you think I act like a man?”

  • “I guess you have to a little.”

  • Yet, even though Miranda's personality is based on men, the premise of this movie

  • would never work if the character actually WERE a man

  • because there's nothing novel or surprising about a powerful man

  • being demanding and cut-throat as he chases success.

  • Okay, she's tough, but if Miranda were a MAN,

  • no one would notice anything about her, except how great she is at her job.”

  • In her world, Miranda is WELL-AWARE of how she's perceived.

  • Just imagine what they're gonna write about me.

  • The Dragon Lady, career-obsessed.”

  • She knows people will judge her harshly for being an exceptionally powerful woman,

  • regardless of what she does.

  • She's a notorious sadist.”

  • Do you want me to say, 'Poor you.

  • Miranda's picking on you.'”

  • She's just doing her job.”

  • Miranda's trademark look was inspired by model Carmen Dell'Orefice

  • and French lawyer Christine Lagarde.

  • But she also bears a striking resemblance

  • to another iconic working woman

  • Cruella de Vil.

  • Cruella and Miranda are both self-assured, career-oriented fashionistas.

  • You're fired!

  • You're finished!

  • You'll never work in fashion again!”

  • If you don't go, I'll assume you're not serious about your future,

  • at Runway or any other publication.”

  • And the nameCruella DeVil”— an only loosely camouflaged version of

  • Cruel Devil,”

  • [Singing] “Cruella Devil, if she doesn't scare you no evil thing will.”

  • reminds us of Miranda, too, as she's openly cruel

  • and is also explicitly calledThe Devilin the film's title.

  • So what underlies the impulse to make this character-type THE BAD GUY?

  • Whether explicitly or via subtext, both of these characters

  • are vilified in their societies for not fitting neatly

  • into the role of the self-sacrificing domestic woman.

  • “I live for furs.

  • I worship furs!”

  • Oh, I'd like a nice fur, but there are so many other things.”

  • Sweet, simple Anita.”

  • “I sat there waiting for you for almost an hour.”

  • “I told you that the cell phones didn't work.

  • Nobody could get a signal out.”

  • So you could argue that Cruella and Miranda symbolize

  • theEVILof being a CAREER WOMAN.

  • More good women have been lost to marriage than to war, famine,

  • disease and disaster.

  • You have talent, darling.

  • Don't squander it.”

  • Their other sin is GETTING OLDER, and expecting to still be treated as relevant.

  • Jacqueline's a lot younger than Miranda.

  • She has a fresher take on things.”

  • The Devil Wears Prada also uses Miranda

  • to explore the problem of work/life balance,

  • another area where women are judged by an unattainable standard.

  • "My personal life is hanging by a thread, that's all."

  • Well, join the club.

  • That's what happens when you start doing well at work, darling.”

  • As soon as Andy starts succeeding, her relationship with her boyfriend,

  • Nate, hits the rocks.

  • Your job sucks and your boss is a wacko.”

  • One thing that doesn't hold up so well about this 2006 film

  • is that the story ultimately frames Nate asrightto object to the demands

  • of his girlfriend's career.

  • “I wanted to say that you were right about everything.”

  • A popular take in recent years is that Nate is the TRUE VILLAIN

  • of this story for not supporting Andy's career.

  • You know, I wouldn't care if you were out there pole-dancing

  • all night as long as you did it with a little integrity.”

  • Like Nate, Miranda's husband isn't happy about coming in second

  • to his partner's career.

  • “I knew what everyone in that restaurant was thinking

  • there he is, waiting for HER again.”

  • Miranda's commitment to being the best in her field

  • sometimes means RADICAL SACRIFICES in her personal life.

  • We watch her undergo a painful divorce.

  • Snow Queen drives away another Mr. Priestly.”

  • But in the end, Andy manages to snag

  • the job she wants AND keep her man happy,

  • seemingly no longer having to worry about these kinds of trade-offs.

  • Let me know when your whole life goes up in smoke.

  • That means it's time for a promotion.”

  • In the years since the movie came out in 2006,

  • there's been a backlash against the overly simplistic and idealistic

  • having it allnarrative that Andy's happy ending perpetuates.

  • We might apply this critical eye to Andy's foreshadowed future

  • at the end of Devil Wears Prada.

  • Just because she's not working for Miranda now,

  • does that mean she's going to severely limit

  • her work hours to keep her boyfriend happy?

  • And if so, will this really get her to the top of her field as a journalist?

  • The unattainable ideal ofhaving it allputs unhealthy PRESSURE on women

  • to excel in BOTH the work and home realms without letting anything

  • slide through the cracks.

  • Ironically, it's another form of PERFECTIONISM.

  • Another disappointment.

  • Another letdown.”

  • Miranda proves the adage

  • thatthe perfect is the enemy of the good.”

  • Ultimately, her perfectionism is both her greatest strength and her fatal flaw.

  • A perfectionist's resting state is DISSATISFACTION

  • because in their eyes, things are never exactly right.

  • And this layout for the Winter Wonderland spread,

  • not wonderful yet.”

  • So perfectionism can be a tyrant making

  • nothing ever feel good enough.

  • Streep even said that embodying Miranda

  • left her in a permanent bad mood on set.

  • “I think when you're a taskmaster and very very disciplined and controlling

  • that everything is not quite rightall the time.”

  • Miranda's staff also suffer due to her perfectionism.

  • She is not happy unless everyone around her

  • is panicked, nauseous or suicidal.”

  • Her way of making people feel small and inadequate

  • No.”

  • ISN'T a good strategy in the long-run.

  • Studies have shown that happy employees are

  • actually more productive,

  • and that people who feel appreciated and respected

  • by their bosses are more likely to stick around.

  • So ironically, even though Miranda ensures that the work is flawless,

  • she falls far short of perfection as a leader.

  • “I really did everything I could think of—”

  • That's all.”

  • Miranda's perfectionism is, at its core, a form of egocentrism.

  • After all, what constitutesperfectionis subjective.

  • And in this world, perfect is really just whatever Miranda thinks it is.

  • So because she pursed her lips, he's gonna change

  • his entire collection?”

  • You still don't get it, do you?

  • Her opinion is the only one that matters.”

  • Eventually Andy realizes that she only wants to follow

  • this perfectionist mindset so far.

  • She gets a wake-up call after Miranda betrays Nigel,

  • Andy's beloved work ally who's looking forward to an amazing

  • opportunity to leave Runway.

  • He spots his freedom on the horizon.

  • This is the first time in 18 years I'm going to be able to call the shots

  • in my own life.”

  • --

  • And this statement is a reminder that working for Miranda

  • requires a complete effacement of your own identity

  • a point that's also underlined by everyone calling Andy

  • the wrong name for most of the movie.

  • Emily.

  • Emily?”

  • She means you.”

  • Well, it was very, very nice to meet you, Miranda girl.”

  • In the end Miranda steals this opportunity from Nigel

  • to give it to Jaqueline Follet, in order to prevent Jaqueline

  • from taking HER position.

  • When the time is right, she'll pay me back.”

  • You sure about that?”

  • No.”

  • Nigel is one of the few people Miranda actually respects and values.

  • Zac Posen's doing some very sculptural suits.

  • So I suggested that Testino shoot them at the Noguchi Garden.”

  • Perfect.

  • Thank God somebody came to work today.”

  • So if she's willing to do this to him, there's really no one she won't screw over.

  • Everyone else always comes a distant second to Miranda herself.

  • You want this life, those choices are necessary.”

  • In the aftermath of this betrayal, when the words of praise Andy

  • has long desired from Miranda finally come,

  • “I see a great deal of myself in you.”

  • Andy takes them as an insult.

  • “I couldn't do what you did to Nigel, Miranda.

  • I couldn't do something like that.”

  • You already did.

  • To Emily.”

  • She realizes that she has become Miranda,

  • not just in the good ways, but also in the total self-centeredness.

  • “I didn't have a choice.

  • You know how she is.”

  • Please, that is a pathetic excuse.”

  • At the movie's table read, Streep changed Miranda's last line

  • in the car scene fromEverybody wants to be meto,

  • Everybody wants to be us.”

  • But Andy rejects Miranda's self-centered perfectionist

  • by-any-means-necessary value system.

  • In the moment on the red carpet when Miranda realizes her assistant

  • isn't obediently following behind her,

  • we can see shock subtly register on her face.

  • For once, someone didn't want to be her.

  • There might also be a small part of Miranda that's impressed by Andy here.

  • By separating from her mentor, Andy is following her own star,

  • and that means she's continuing to be a lot more

  • like Miranda than she even realizes.

  • In the end it's clear that the ex-boss respects the competent,

  • professional woman her protégée has blossomed into.

  • Saying that of all the assistants she's ever had,

  • you were, by far, her biggest disappointment.

  • And, if I don't hire you, I am an idiot.”

  • And when she watches Andy in the final scene,

  • we gather from Miranda's expression that deep-down she's proud

  • and happy for this next-generation working woman,

  • who made it out of Runway with her humanity and core principles intact.

  • She may be her movie's villain, but Miranda Priestly is an icon.

  • Where's Armani?

  • He's on the phone.

  • Too slow.

  • You're not going to Paris.

  • I'm so much better than you are.”

  • indisputably the best part of Devil Wears Prada

  • By all means, move at a glacial pace.

  • You know how that thrills me.”

  • And she achieves the kind of career success

  • most of us can only dream of.

  • Director David Frankel said,

  • My view was that we should be grateful for excellence.

  • Why do the excellent people have to be nice?”

  • Is there some reason that my coffee isn't here?

  • Has she died or something?”

  • What's so empowering about Miranda's character

  • is that her sense of superiority is earned.

  • And what everyone keeps telling Andy is true

  • Congratulations, young lady.

  • A million girls would kill for that job.”

  • it's a privilege to learn from this incredible woman

  • Is it impossible to find a lovely, slender female paratrooper?”

  • No.”

  • Am I reaching for the stars here?

  • Not really.”

  • So we can learn from her to hold ourselves to lofty standards.

  • Even if we don't achieve perfection, we just might arrive at greatness.

  • Is there anything else I can do?”

  • Your job.”

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