The Tamesis
Are you Emily, Andy or Miranda? When an infamous book becomes a movie The queen wears prada premiered in 2006, the fashion world was clutching its pearls. However, my mother already expressed my love for fashion when I was nine years old by taking me to see it at the local AMC theater.
As I left the theatre, I seriously asked my mother why would anyone want to work in such a stressful place? How ironic that I would actually end up being a Fashion staff. I also left with a very specific vision of the character. I hate Andy’s boyfriend, and while I don’t like Emily either, I love her blue eyeshadow. It feels like this she;There is a clear reason for this. Nicki Ledermann, a renowned TV and film makeup artist who headed up the original film’s department (also a BAFTA nominee), explains that the looks focus on characterization rather than imitation. It’s no wonder these looks still look fresh and modern despite two decades having passed since their debut.
“Trends go out of style because they belong to a specific cultural moment, but personality does not,” Lederman said Fashion. “The faces still feel alive because the people inside still feel alive. That’s the only eternity that matters.”
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In the process of preparing an original The queen wears pradaLederman and the makeup department completely avoided focusing on trend boards and new-age fashion events, instead focusing on giving each fictional woman a look that fit their personality. “I don’t want to follow a trend but rather inspire a trend that is specific and well thought out enough to have a life of its own,” Lederman says Fashion. “Inspiration is always rooted in character first – who are these women and how do their faces illustrate that? As an artist, I’ve always been drawn to bold color and its role – not as decoration, but as expression.”
For Lederman, she identified her three main characters through three completely different beauty languages—Emily’s bold eye makeup, Andy’s warm orange and red lips, and Miranda’s unwavering understatement. “Miranda found her signature long ago and has never wavered. That consistency is her strength—a quiet refusal to be influenced by anyone. At the same time, color became Emily’s signature, and those striking eyes look so unique to her,” she said. In contrast to the former’s unwavering aesthetic, Lederman describes Andy’s beauty as the most nuanced and fluid, as “her beauty changes with where she is and who she becomes.”
