The Devil Wears Prada 2: when cinema rewrites the rules of the wardrobe
Twenty years later, the film that taught us the power of style returns to tell the story of elegance evolving with time.
The Devil Wears Prada — and us too: the fashion trends to watch
There are images that remain, like photographs imprinted on memory. A door closing, a dark dress marking an ending, a woman looking back one last time. That’s how we left Andy twenty years ago, in the heart of Paris. Today, we find her different yet unchanged: shaped by time, still able to tell her story through clothes.
Between iconic scenes and Anne Hathaway’s look spoilers: cinema anticipating the runway
Andy Sachs and essential black
The sequel to The Devil Wears Prada is not an exercise in nostalgia — it’s a story of metamorphosis. Anne Hathaway wears a black Khaite dress, light as a half-spoken secret. Over it, an ethereal coat. On her feet, heels sculpted less for running than for distance. Everything is black, as if the color had become both refuge and statement. Not mourning, but the calm assurance of someone who has learned to choose. Black, which in 2025 has regained absolute centrality on the runways — from Prada to Givenchy — once again stands as a manifesto of essential elegance.
Miranda Priestly and the red of power
Miranda Priestly, on the other hand, chooses red. Not the playful red of youth, but the solemn red of power and vindication. Ruby satin pumps, a dress made to be seen from afar: theatricality as the purest form of survival. It’s the same red dominating couture collections and red carpets today — a symbol of intensity and resurgence. From Valentino to Versace, Gucci to Ferragamo, every season reinvents its language. Yet the message remains: red is never a detail, it is always a declaration.
Fashion as testimony: Patricia Field and today’s trends
Behind every aesthetic choice stands Patricia Field. But this is no longer the fashion of fleeting trends: it is fashion as testimony. The masculine pinstripe turned into feminine armor dialogues with the strict tailoring seen at the latest Fashion Weeks; layered necklaces anticipate the jewelry layering now exploding on TikTok and in street style; the multicolor maxi-dress, breaking the composure of other characters, mirrors the craving for excess and fantasy resurfacing in collections.
Andy no longer just follows the codes: she bends, contaminates, reinvents them, like designers rejecting extreme minimalism and bringing playfulness back to the center of fashion.
Cinema and fashion: time as ally
Even the calendar highlights the message: release is set for May 1, 2026 — just two days before the Met Gala. Cinema and fashion pass the baton, reminding us that fiction and real life have never been so close.
Elegance without ending
Seeing spoilers of the looks during filming, we don’t wonder if they’re beautiful or fashionable. We ask instead what they tell about us — who we were twenty years ago, and who we are now. Perhaps that is the true meaning of the sequel: to show us that elegance is not a gesture to repeat, but a process to live through.
There is no ending, no moral. Only the awareness that clothes, like memories, resist time. And every time we return to them, we no longer see the same characters: we see ourselves, transformed.
