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My favourite speech in "The Devil Wears Prada" is a languid, wickedly funny exposition by Streep, summing up the importance of a fashion industry which feeds on itself (and feeds those in that food chain). [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AADJOLs2NEQ] This is a succinct version of the same idea posited by Beinhocker in his latest opus, when he describes the 'evolution' of shirt design (pp.14-15) However, the NYTimes can't help continuing its crusade against anything to do with this film, with this blithely unhumourous nitpick about the details of the speech: "Well, in 2002, de la Renta showed Russian Cossack hats, lavishly embroidered coats [blah, blah] but no cerulean." - well, fancy that? Did I ever tell you that real chess grandmasters never lose to mate-in-two combinations, despite what Hollywood may have been misleading you to believe?
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