All of Anne Hathaway’s Fashion Moments From <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2 </em>Press Tour
See every one of her show-stopping looks here
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
Anne Hathaway spent her Devil Wears Prada 2 press tour doing what Andy Sachs could only dream of: wearing the actual clothes. Not the knockoffs, not the runway rejects—the real, bespoke, haute couture pieces that make fashion editors weep. Across Mexico City, Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, New York, and London, Hathaway didn't just promote a movie; she became a walking argument for why the original 2006 film's obsession with high fashion still matters.
The through-line wasn't subtle. Thigh-high boots echoed the iconic Chanel pair from the film. Colors swung between dramatic reds and blacks—very Runway board meeting—paired with the kind of sculptural ruffles and corseted bodices that suggest someone's still thinking about power dressing, just with more dimension. At the Mexico City stop, she wore Stella McCartney's sparkling pink minidress; in Tokyo, a strapless Valentino haute couture gown with three-dimensional black-and-white ruffles that looked almost architectural. Each designer seemed to understand the assignment: fashion as theater, not afterthought.
Playing with proportion and provocation
Some moments played with proportion in ways that felt genuinely experimental. The Vaquera look in Seoul—a voluminous taupe blouse with padded ruffles paired with leather pants designed to look backwards—read less as homage and more as fashion that wants to mess with you. The Balenciaga red leather set at Seoul's premiere brought back that crimson energy, slouchy cape jacket swallowing the silhouette before a split-hem midi skirt restored some graphic sharpness.
What's striking, according to Harper's Bazaar, is that Hathaway didn't lean exclusively on logomania or safe celebrity-approved neutrals. She wore color—that cherry-red Louis Vuitton gown at the New York premiere was custom-made and unapologetic. She wore textures: Susan Fang's pale-lavender striped tulle confection in Shanghai, an Armani Privé velvet coat dress studded with pearls and crystals in London. These weren't pieces designed to disappear into red-carpet background noise. They demanded space, attention, and a certain amount of courage to carry off.
The entire tour felt like a quiet rebuttal to the idea that fashion moments should be predictable or inoffensive. Hathaway, now a fashion adult playing a younger version of herself in the sequel, used her wardrobe to argue that the industry's obsession with beauty, status, and transformation—the very thing Devil Wears Prada skewered—is still, somehow, worth dressing up for.
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