I know fashion is a tough industry where you have to be a b1tch to get things done, but there is a line, a lot of the crap she pulled would have been against labour laws. The whole get Harry Potter manuscript thing was totally illegal.
shareI would have sued her ass over the harry potter incident and the 15 minutes lunch. Seriously 15 mins for lunch after working all day and starting at 7am????????
shareBecause SO many people are SO eager to be part of the fashion industry, that they'd never dream of suing or tipping off the labor laws enforcement people, no matter how many labor laws were broken. Hell, they'd work for free!
Which is where you see the most serious abuses, because in supposedly glamorous fields like entertainment and fashion, they really DO get people to work for free. They call it "interning", and we're not talking a few weeks in the summer. At some of these places, people will work for months or years in the hope of getting a paying job at place like "Vogue" Magazine (or whatever they called it in the movie), while mommy and daddy back home pay their bills. There have been calls for legislation that will put a stop to this kind of rank exploitation, but I haven't heard that any new laws have actually been passed.
No you don’t have to be a bitch to get things done. They just are shallow, self absorbed, self important bitches. Andy is right in the beginning, what they do is not important at all. Just because a lot of girls and gays care about overpriced shit, doesn’t mean it’s important. In the grand scheme of society they are contributing nothing. If there were to be a catastrophic even, no one would give a shit what they are wearing.
shareTaking care of yourself is a sign of being cultured. Looking nice, knowing what's in fashion etcetera. You can partake but it takes effort. Looking down on people who make the effort is telling the world that you are not cultured and makes you less desirable.
shareLooking down on those who know their are more important things and better uses for humanity and effort in the world than $1200 handbags makes you look like pompous, arrogant, elitist, pretentious. Especially if you think “taking care of yourself and being cultured” gives you a pass to treat people like shit.
There’s much better forms of art, as well, that actually capture the spectrum of emotion and the human experience. I can wear a burlap sack, have a Doctorate in film studies and have more culture than some dilettante who just buys overpriced pieces of cloth that some commercialist fashion editor told me to was “in” just to buy things I don’t actually want or need.
well said HarryShoulder!
shareIn real life the person this movie was based on was sued multiple times and she had to pay big payouts.
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