The Devil Wears Prada Test

The Devil Wears Prada Test is inspired by psychometric methodology and based on research into the characters of the film. The test provides feedback such as the following:

Sasha Barnes

Perhaps due to the way the world once treated your marriage as public property, you now reserve your attention for things that actually deserve to survive. You have little patience for people who turn every passing moment into an online performance, and you see no reason to let strangers define who you are after a difficult chapter has closed. Authority, in your view, comes from independence and conviction rather than constant visibility. However, your habit of retreating behind firm boundaries can make you seem nearly impossible to reach when others are hoping for a favor. All the same, when an institution worth keeping is in danger of becoming obsolete, you step forward on your own terms.

Lily

Although you have no desire to climb a magazine masthead or memorize the guest list of an uptown gala, you are the person who actually keeps your circle of friends together over the years. You prefer relaxed evenings and real conversation to the exhausting theater of professional status, and you expect the people in your life to show up for you with the same warmth you show them. On the flip side, you can feel quietly sidelined when someone you care about starts treating their ordinary relationships as background noise for a more prestigious career. And yet, your affection outlasts every passing phase of ambition, and twenty years on, you are still the friend worth coming home to.

Miranda Priestly

Far from being easy to replace, you are a person of exacting standards who expects a publication to be run properly even while the rest of the world moves online. You have a deep appreciation for physical layouts, a gift for silence, and a long memory for the names of French colleagues who have been mentioned as your successor. However, you are not fond of repeating yourself, and when print budgets shrink, you may find yourself requesting advertising favors from people who used to fetch your coffee. Even so, you are a steady refuge to the violinist at home who knows how much you have helped him through his worst days.

Christian Thompson

Like many cosmopolitan journalists, you find that a crowded gallery or a high-society party is the most natural place in the world to get your best work done. You are generous with your time when a promising newcomer wants you to read her clippings, and you have a gift for making an ambitious person feel as though she is the only one in the room. On the flip side, your helpfulness rarely comes without an angle, and you tend to treat personal confidences as a particularly pleasant currency for trading favors with the people in charge. Even so, your prose is well worth reading, and your company is difficult to resist.

Nigel Kipling

Flamboyant and perceptive, you are the rare authority who treats personal style not as vanity, but as the fluent language of your profession. You have a gift for reading a room and its chairman's huge ego at a single glance, and you prefer to defuse a crisis with a well-timed quip rather than an open fight that nobody can win. When an idealistic outsider returns as an editor years later, you are the one who helps her find her footing all over again. However, your strategic restraint can look like resignation to those who wish you would demand your own creative kingdom sooner. Nevertheless, while magazines, technology, and empires shift around you, your expertise is the one constant the house can still count on.

Andy Sachs

While you pride yourself on taking serious journalism far more seriously than the clothes on your back, you are a quick study when a demanding room requires you to change your posture and your shoes. You are resilient, observant, and entirely capable of securing an interview with a reclusive philanthropist when your publication's online numbers depend on it. On the flip side, you can be a touch judgmental toward industries you have not yet learned to read, and you sometimes let charming writers with good connections blur the line between a professional favor and a personal mistake. All the same, you refuse to let ambition turn you into someone you no longer recognize.

Emily Charlton

Your sardonic wit is one of your greatest assets: you have a quick, withering remark ready for any colleague who asks an obvious question, and you guard your hard-won access to important people with extreme care. You work at high speed, memorize complex social rituals, and treat the approval of those you admire as the highest form of currency. Hiring a junior colleague whose taste you privately question is simply part of keeping the office running. However, you sometimes tie your entire sense of worth to your position, and you can become fiercely competitive when an ambitious subordinate starts outperforming you in a crisis. In the end, you know how to turn early devotion into lasting executive influence at a luxury brand.

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