What did a generation of strivers learn about what it means to get ahead from “The Devil Wears Prada”? Was Miranda Priestly, the famed and famously demanding fashion editor at the center of the movie – in many ways the original “girlboss” – an aspirational or cautionary figure? In this episode, Susie and Jess revisit the blockbuster 2006 film and talk about their own careers and changing relationships to ambition.

GUEST:
Samhita Mukhopadhyay, former executive editor at Teen Vogue and author of the upcoming book, The Myth of Making It

FOR MORE: 
The Devil Wears Prada Oral History (Entertainment Weekly)
The Demise of the Girlboss (New York Magazine)
The Girlboss Has Left the Building (The Atlantic)

What did a generation of strivers learn about what it means to get ahead from “The Devil Wears Prada”? Was Miranda Priestly, the famed and famously demanding fashion editor at the center of the movie – in many ways the original “girlboss” – an aspirational or cautionary figure? In this episode, Susie and Jess revisit the blockbuster 2006 film and talk about their own careers and changing relationships to ambition.
GUEST:
<ul>
<li>Samhita Mukhopadhyay, former executive editor at Teen Vogue and author of the upcoming book, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690129/the-myth-of-making-it-by-samhita-mukhopadhyay/#:~:text=A%20call%20to%20action%20to,oppressive%20grip%20of%20hustle%20culture.">The Myth of Making It</a></li>
</ul>
FOR MORE: 
<ul>
<li><a href="https://ew.com/movies/devil-wears-prada-cast-reunion/">The Devil Wears Prada Oral History</a> (Entertainment Weekly)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.thecut.com/2021/08/demise-of-the-girlboss.html">The Demise of the Girlboss</a> (New York Magazine)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/girlbosses-what-comes-next/613519/">The Girlboss Has Left the Building</a> (The Atlantic)</li>
</ul>

Is there a cultural moment from your past that looks different in retrospect? Maybe it’s a scandalous tabloid story seared into your teenage brain or a political punchline that just feels wrong now. It might be a very specific red swimsuit that inspired a decade of plastic surgery (see: “Baywatch”) or the inescapable smell of an entire generation of prepubescent boys (Axe body spray, anyone?). Each week on IN RETROSPECT, Emmy-winning journalist Susie Banikarim and New York Times editor Jessica Bennett revisit a pop culture moment from the 80s and 90s that shaped them — to try to understand what it taught us about the world, and a woman’s place in it.

Talk to us at @inretropod, @susiebnyc and @jessicabennett on Instagram. New episodes each Friday.

Is there a cultural moment from your past that looks different in retrospect? Maybe it’s a scandalous tabloid story seared into your teenage brain or a political punchline that just feels wrong now. It might be a very specific red swimsuit that inspired a decade of plastic surgery (see: “Baywatch”) or the inescapable smell of an entire generation of prepubescent boys (Axe body spray, anyone?). Each week on IN RETROSPECT, Emmy-winning journalist Susie Banikarim and New York Times editor Jessica Bennett revisit a pop culture moment from the 80s and 90s that shaped them — to try to understand what it taught us about the world, and a woman’s place in it.
Talk to us at @inretropod, @susiebnyc and @jessicabennett on Instagram. New episodes each Friday.

In Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett

What ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Taught Us About Ambition

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