From Prada to Nada review:

With From Prada to Nada viewable on YouTube for a time with no greater a price than a few ads, I decided that it was about time that I watched it.

Costumes: I loved all of the costumes. Since it is a modern adaptation there isn't much to say about accuracy, but I think that they did a good job using costumes to convey character.

"Updating" to modern day:
I think that they did a very good job of updating everything. the way that they translated class and economic divides was very well done in my opinion. As I am not Mexican I am afraid that I do not know how accurately they portrayed that culture. They handled the inheritance situation very well, it is after all a difficult thing to translate entailment into modern day. they managed to most keep the plot the same while still including some fun new bits. While they did make some changes to the whole Edward Lucy and Edward Elinor, (or in this adaptation Nora,) plots I can see that some changes had to be made because fortunately we no longer live in a time when a man is honor bond not to break off an engagement with a lady without permanently harming her reputation. They made changes and updated where they needed to, but the feel was as close to the book as movies set in modern day ever can be.

Character-interpretation/casting:

Nora (Elinor): They turned Elinor Dashwood into Nora, a Mexican-American law student. At first I was wary of the way that she behaved in the opening montage, it looked so stereotypical nerdy, but as the movie went on I quickly realized that they really had made a beautiful three dimensional character.

Mary (Marianne): Marianne became Mary, young, fun loving, naive, party going, shopper who doesn't spend all that much time studying until the new TA turns out to be hot (the new TA is Willoughby). Like Nora she seemed very one dimensional, but fortunately like with Nora she turned out to be slightly less stereotypical than she originally appeared. I think that they handled updating her getting caught in the rain and almost dying very well.

Olivia (Fanny Dashwood): Her and her husband remodel big houses. She was so delightfully mean and condescending, and was manipulative of her husband.

Gabe (John Dashwood): having him be the result of an affair works well in explaining why he and his sisters where not close. I actually really liked his character redemption ark even if it is not accurate. In the book you feel like if he had just married someone better than Fanny he could have been redeemable, and the way Gabe and Olivia start to fall apart due to his desire to know his father to the best of his abilities despite him being gone is just so lovely. I especially loved the way he fought to keep his father's study and his reaction to the letters that his father had written him over the years despite not seeing him, he looks like he feels loved by his father for the first time and it is just so precious. I really like how they did his character.