I will confess to working at this magazine and more often than not someone will respond with: “But is it like the ?” The real answer – that yes sometimes it is and no sometimes it isn’t – is not important, because most people just want you to agree with them. It helps to maintain the poisonous allure of working in fashion publishing – a place of pursed-lip monsters in Chanel suits – that has fast become one of the hardest-working tropes in pop culture. understands this.
The SFX artist arrived at this morning’s couture presentation in full Miranda Priestly drag: chin down and face moulded to the exact proportions of with a spiral-bound edition of British ’s March issue in lieu of The Book. She took one step into the venue and immediately seemed disappointed at the ineptitude of just about everyone in her orbit. “ Alexis Stone as Miranda Priestly.
“Fashion is built up of a lot of gay guys like me,” Stone says. “We’re enamoured not only by women but female villains, because I think we see a lot of ourselves in them. Sure, Miranda isn’t the kindest editor in the world, but I can tell you that there are nuances in Streep’s characterisation that I have seen time and time again throughout fashion.
The film resonates for a reason.” The movie resonated with Stone, too, but perhaps not as much as and its own arch-editor Alexis Meade, who inspired Alexis’s own name. “Yeah, the trans woman who comes back to life after faking her own death – like im.
