Sunday, June 12, 2011

Feeling Blue

In the words of Miranda Priestly...
"'This… stuff'? Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select… I don't know… that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But 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. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets? ...I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, 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 the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff." 

2011 Resort Collections: Derek Lam, Louis Vuitton, YSL, ADAM


So, are you feeling blue?

*Photos via StyleCaster, Glamour Magazine

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love that bit of the film! I think there's a tendency to underplay the silly girl aspect of fashion films, so for Streep to lay it out there made me actually quite happy, ha!

Fashion Cappuccino said...

I will always remember that quote from the movie! The most memorable line! I adore blue, especially the lighter shades! xoxoxoo

the nyanzi report said...

good stuff.

a said...

Ha I love the devil wears prada one of my favourite films :)Love the third outfit in X

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