The Media are Fashioning Women

 For my portion of the project, I'm looking at fashion in movies and television, especially Sex and the City, The Devil Wears Prada, and Marie Antoinette. These mostly deal with how women are portrayed as "not having a place in the man's world", and now matter how empowering they may seem (4 strong, sexually promiscuous women sound strong, right?) they are constantly positioned lower than the men they work and sleep with because their weakness is fashion. In The Devil Wears Prada, the main character isn't truly happy until she is fashion forward, and even after she quits, she takes her fashion knowledge into the rest of the world. She wasn't complete without the best clothes, even though she was a strong lead otherwise.