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How 2006’s ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Memorialized Mid-Aughts Menswear ​

How 2006’s ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Memorialized Mid-Aughts Menswear ​

Elsewhere in the film, beyond the fictional fashion magazine’s offices, the sartorial spectrum widens. There’s Nate (Adrian Grenier), chef boyfriend to protagonist Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), who is cool but firmly of his time—which is to say, he’s no Carmy Berzatto in IYKYK tees and selvedge denim. Nate is pure mid-aughts casual: bootcut jeans, flannels, zip-up hoodies, and ringer T-shirts. There’s nothing particularly considered about it, and that’s the point. He embodies the everyman (albeit one handsome everyman) of the era, the guy for whom clothes are an afterthought. Nate is critical of his girlfriend’s foray, in her role as a reluctant Runway assistant, into the fashion world. He is also seemingly clueless about the sway that the industry has on its target audience: “Why do women need so many bags?” he quips, groaningly. “You have one. You put all your junk in it, and that’s it. You’re done.” Andy’s chef boyfriend Nate (Adrian Grenier) positioned himself as the anti-fashion everyman. ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection The film’s other romantic foil, the journalist Christian Thompson (Simon Baker), …

2006’s ‘Southland Tales’ Imagined an America Gone Off the Deep End. 20 Years Later, We’re Living There

2006’s ‘Southland Tales’ Imagined an America Gone Off the Deep End. 20 Years Later, We’re Living There

It must separate a person a little bit from the normal experience of being human. Absolutely. At the same time, I have met some billionaires. Believe it or not, I have met a few and befriended them. And there are some that are absolutely human, and it’s just an issue of how they compose themselves and what is their worldview. What are they trying to achieve with this money? It’s a really fascinating thing, to think about the responsibilities that come along with that much wealth. Another recent, highly political, extremely current movie that was also a flop at the box office, was Eddington. Did you see that? I loved Eddington. I’m friends with Ari Aster, and I love what he’s doing, the bold risks he’s taking, and I hope he continues down that path, I really do. Eddington ends in a much more cynical fashion than Southland Tales. Yet the cynicism still seems to me to reflect a genuine emotion. And certainly, when Ari has talked about the movie, he’s talked about it coming …