Gird your loins! Excitement is at an all-time excessive for The Devil Wears Prada 2, the forthcoming sequel of the 2006 hit film starring Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep.
Earlier this morning in Tokyo, the 2 stars hit the pink carpet for the movie’s first Asia premiere—and naturally, they introduced their most interesting fashions out for the affair. It is, in spite of everything, a high-fashion film: The stakes are excessive, so Streep donned Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel, whereas Hathaway donned a strapless, ruffle-skirted robe from Valentino’s spring 2026 couture collection (full with Rockstud heels). “I’m aware of the eyeballs on it,” says stylist Erin Walsh, who’s dressing Hathaway for the worldwide press tour. “But I feel like I’ve been training my whole life to do this. There’s always pressure: It’s what we do and what we love.”
Walsh and Hathaway’s vogue collaborations date again to 2019, so the duo have been sure to carry out one more epic wardrobe for the whirlwind DWP2 tour. It helps that the stylist additionally has a private connection to the movie: When the primary Devil Wears Prada got here out again in 2006, Walsh was working at Vogue for the legendary sittings editor Phyllis Posnick, so she is well-versed within the glamorous journal world that each movies are set in. “It was like watching a documentary,” says Walsh. “All of the assistants at the office were talking about it—and all of the bosses, too.”
Flash-forward to a decade later, and now Walsh is tasked with cultivating one other memorable array of sequel seems for Hathaway that really feel stylish, daring, but nonetheless undeniably fashionable, too. “It’s been an exercise of joy—having the opportunity to tie in layers of Andy [Sachs] with Annie, and playing with all of the different designers,” says Walsh, who additionally dressed Hathaway in Valentino for her campy Oscars skit with Vogue’s Anna Wintour. “Being backstage at the Oscars with Annie and Anna as they were rehearsing their lines, I was like, ‘Is this real?’”
Walsh and Hathaway’s press tour first kicked off in Mexico City final week, when the star emerged sporting two distinctive assertion seems. The first was a black fringed Schiaparelli gown with a sculptural gold belt. “Being at Frida Kahlo’s house, we wanted to honor that fashion-as-art idea,” says Walsh. “That felt really important. I liked the idea of starting in black to ground it.” It is a well timed sentiment given the upcoming Met Gala theme.
Hathaway adopted that up with a pink sequined Stella McCartney frock, with leather-based thigh-high boots—an homage to the leather-based Chanel boots her character Andy wears within the first movie, after all. “I wanted to honor the first film, and what Pat Field did with the costumes—it was just such a great example of fashion storytelling, and really being unafraid to go to magical and unexpected places with it,” says Walsh. “But we also wanted to look at how Annie’s character has evolved 20 years later. Taking things to a new place and time through the colors, proportions, and textures.”
