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Static images for those who prefer it or find animation and reels way too overstimulating 😅 Includes both with blush and without. Swipe right to see ➡️

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A little animation of a screenshot of #thedevilwearsprada2 - without all the background sounds! Had a lot of fun making this!

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A little behind the scenes of how I drew #theDevilWearsPrada2 illustration!

Really liking this chalky brush I'm using, it has a lot of texture! Gives a rougher finish to the final piece 😊

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Finally watched The Devil Wears Prada 2 a few weeks ago! If you've missed it, the write-up is on my Substack!

Couldn't resist making a tiny animation! Overall, a pretty fun film 😊

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Why Italians Are Very Territorial About Food, According To Stanley Tucci

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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2715573/why-italians-are-very-territorial-about-food-according-to-stanley-tucci-2/

Why Italians Are Very Territorial About Food, According To Stanley Tucci https://www.diningandcooking.com/2715573/why-italians-are-very-territorial-about-food-according-to-stanley-tucci-2/ #Italia #Italian #ItalianCooking #ItalianCuisine #italiano #italy #RelationshipWithFood #StanleyTucci #TheDevilWearsPrada

Review: The Devil Wears Prada – A Staple of 2000s Hollywood. (Spoilers)

Last week, I watched The Devil Wears Prada for the first time and all I could think as I watched it was – did we really need a sequel to this? It’s good, but it can stand on its own.

The Devil Wears Prada follows Andrea (Andy) Sax, a bright-eyed college graduate who’s desperately looking for a job. She interviews with “Runway”, a high-end fashion magazine out of desperation, and is hired by Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief. She becomes one of Miranda’s assistants and quickly grows to be a part of the company, embracing its fashion culture. However, trouble strikes as her position as Miranda’s assistant and her new connections in the fashion and media world put a heavy strain on her relationships, until she finally has to ask herself if it’s worth it anymore.

Being a movie centering heavily around the fashion industry, The Devil Wears Prada makes a lot of jokes about people’s weight. Being set in the early 2000s when the beauty standard was heroin chic, glorifying unhealthily skinny bodies that were slightly better than today’s Ozempic-using actresses, jokes are made about Andy being fat because she’s a size six. One of the funniest and saddest scenes in the movie is when Andy has to tell her friend, Emily, that she’s going to Paris, and Emily yells that Andy doesn’t deserve to go to Paris since she eats carbs. The culture of extreme dieting to stay skinny is fully embraced and ridiculed in this movie.

Moreover, the movie didn’t shy away from addressing the issues that come from being a corporate woman. Miranda, though an unlikeable character, is sympathetic. As the editor-in-chief, she spent her life climbing the corporate ladder to the detriment of two marriages and her daughters’ childhoods. She feels bad for not being there for her husband and children thanks to her extreme dedication to “Runway.” On top of that, she has to make hard decisions to maintain her place at the company to the detriment of her relationships with her staff.

Similarly, Andy is pushed by Miranda to climb the corporate ladder by throwing people under the bus for her benefit. While Andy doesn’t realize it at first, towards the end of the movie she does. Already seeing what such a lifestyle has done to Miranda and what it’s already doing to her life, she leaves “Runway” and grows confident in her own skin, reuniting with her boyfriend and getting a job with a local newspaper.

Because of this, I really doubt that the new Devil Wears Prada movie is going to be good. The first movie was clearly meant to be a standalone film. It starts with Andy being desperate for a job and ends with her being confident enough to move on to do her own thing. It doesn’t shy away from criticizing corporate culture and makes jabs at an industry that’s particularly known for its toxicity, something it could do back in the 2000s. It’s a good movie that doesn’t need a sequel.

Until next time,

M.J.

Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly Is Back in All Her Savage Glory in New ‘Devil Wears Prada 2’ Footage
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/devil-wears-prada-2-meryl-streep-miranda-priestly-1236565358/

YOUTHJUICE rating: 3 stars ⭐⭐⭐.

HEBE was supposed to give me the heebie-jeebies, but the novel stole its own thunder almost immediately. A slow horror buildup would have been ideal in the gothic horror novel youthjuice by E.K. Sathue (Penguin Random House, June 4, 2024).

Sophia is the new Creative Director for HEBE, a cosmetics company with products that work a bit too well at erasing wrinkles and scars, and a cultish, ageless CEO named Tree who says things like “Call me your True North.” Narcissist much? A motif of Hebe is that looking young and gorgeous and being a good and moral person are one and the same.

Thanks to Edelweiss Plus Above the Treeline and Penguin Random House for sending this book to me for review consideration. All opinions are my own.

Besides spoiling its own shocker, the novel suffers from overwriting with tortured metaphors, and a clumsy dual timeline. Would editors please stop insisting upon dual timelines when they are not working and just add to the readers’ confusion?

The novel nevertheless has a certain propulsion as Sophia is lured into the inner circle of the company and changes herself utterly to fit in, Devil-Wears-Prada style.1“The Devil Wears Prada” is both a 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger and a 2006 movie starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway that I’ve probably seen five times. Sophia’s characterization could have been stronger, but I did keep reading.

I was satisfied by the ending, with comeuppance for the baddies and a thought-provoking message. Fashion horror and cosmetic horror have enormous potential as a subgenre, to say nothing of cosmetic surgery horror combined with an age-positive and body-positive message. youthjuice felt relevant personally: while I want to be Jamie Lee Curtis and be cool about aging, I found a crepe-y little fold above my right eye last week and flipped out. Despite my best intentions, I don’t wanna go there.

Reading in context:

STARDUST by Neil Gaiman (1999) is the obvious read-alike, with malicious witches who are determined to stay young.

WOMEN ROWING NORTH: NAVIGATING LIFE’S CURRENTS AND FLOURISHING AS WE AGE by Mary Pipher (Bloomsbury, 2019) is a five-star read.

Pretty much anything by Anne Lamott on aging and what she calls the “third third of life” is stellar; you can start with this essay.

What I’m reading right now:

THE DJINN WAITS A HUNDRED YEARS by Shubhnum Khan (Penguin Random House, January 9, 2024).

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https://jillsreads.com/youthjuice/

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