In Devil Wears Prada 2, some things have never gone out of fashion

May 10, 2026 — 3:00am

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It seems like only five minutes ago that “quiet luxury” was à la mode.

But The Devil Wears Prada 2, the wonderful and weirdly poignant sequel to the 2006 original film, did not get that memo.

The film, which is being devoured by audiences worldwide, is as loud as it pleases in its celebration of high fashion, luxury labels and the beautiful things that are made when creative visionaries are funded by people who appreciate them.

The film is a fightback against the barbarism of the tech bros who wear baseball caps to meetings and who want to optimise the unoptimiseable; it is a paean to working women, and it is a lament for print journalism.

Our protagonist, the ever-eager Andy Sachs, has long since moved on from her ill-fated stint as assistant to fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly.

Priestly is modelled, of course, on the icy and iconic former US Vogue editor Anna Wintour, who is now Global Chief Content Officer for Vogue’s parent company Condé Nast.

Andy is now an investigative journalist at a quality newspaper, and in an early scene she is at a journalism awards event, where the carpet is shabby and the guests are shabbier.

It is the anti-fashion crowd: there is an over-representation of men wearing polyester-infused vests over button-down shirts, and one of Andy’s colleagues is wearing a New York Yankees hat at the dinner table.

Andy is announced as an award-winner at the same moment her phone, along with the phones of her colleagues, pings with a text message.

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They have all been fired via text - victims of the relentless “lay-offs, consolidation and downsizing” that have defined legacy journalism since the disruptions of the internet began.

It is a case of art initiating........

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