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There is much wrong with Emily in Paris. By now, most of us are familiar with the most disturbing aspects of the show: the retrograde notion that Emily’s boss is simply hypocrisy take your dream job in Paris because you are pregnant; unbridled fat phobia and allusions to smoking instead of eating; the caricature representation of the French en masse; The totally untimely one for the dissolution of Lou Malnati! (Emily how could you? A true Midwesterner knows Lou is the one best, Emily is included).
And then there is fashion. If I’m honest (and appropriately melodramatic), it’s what bothered me the most. Lots of rules have been written about Emily’s puzzling tastes: her serious berets and Eiffel Tower prints, those five-inch stiletto boots, a seemingly endless stash of flashy outerwear. (Exactly where do you keep all these fake skins and holographic motorcycle jackets?) It’s not just that your clothing is “exquisitely tacky” or, in many cases, totally unprofessional; In our first glimpse of our protagonist, when she’s still Emily in Chicago, she’s wearing a tiny miniskirt in her corporate office.
What really amazes me is that Emily’s outfits don’t come close to reflecting how young women dress in 2020. (Before you review the data on the show’s ambiguous time frame, that “guerilla parade” that Emily presents was a parody of Viktor & Rolf’s Spring 2019 Haute Couture Collection, which took place shortly before Netflix likely started filming. Vis-a-vis, we can assume this is modern.) Throughout the show, we are repeatedly told that Emily is definitely no chic and even led to believe that she doesn’t really care about fashion at all (lest you forget Sylvie’s devastating burn: “She has no references”).
Even if I come to Netflix and accept that she is not supposed to be good at this, Emily is still a smart, observant woman and a proven social butterfly. Not only would you miss the nuances and changes in how your friends and peers dress. An alleged social media expert would probably spend a lot of time on Instagram, following Parisian mega-influencers like Jeanne Damas, Monica Ainley and Laia Sfez. And as a press and marketing prodigy, Emily would surely read her fair share of magazines and websites, and would probably rely on the Vogue Runway app to keep up to date on Paris fashion week.
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