Simone Ashley’s New York City Looks Play With Patches of Fabric
Her “The Devil Wears Prada 2” style streak just gets better and better
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
Simone Ashley is working the promotional circuit for The Devil Wears Prada 2 like she designed the playbook herself. Paired with stylist Rebecca Corbin-Murray, the British actor has been threading a needle between high fashion's biggest names—Balenciaga, Marni, Versace—and the emerging designers actually worth your attention. It's the kind of red-carpet run that announces arrival, not just casting.
On a recent day of New York City engagements, Ashley delivered two looks that proved her eye for fabric manipulation over flash. The first pulled from Gauchere's Fall/Winter 2026 collection: a patchwork halter top that played mustard, white, and black fields of silk against each other like a deliberately wrinkled flag. Marie-Christine Statz designed the piece to twist, not hang—a risk that paid off. Ashley grounded it with high-waisted leather and black Gianvito Rossi pumps, letting the top's geometry do the talking. A Caragol bag from Antonio Marras completed the edit.
Patchwork as Personality
Hours later came round two: a Nomia look that doubled down on the patchwork motif. The New York-based house, founded by Yara Flinn in 2007, sent Ashley out in a gray miniskirt paired with a black top interrupted by two deliberate swathes of patterned fabric at the midsection. Lilac Jimmy Choo sandals with feather detail and a Vestirsi leather bag (the same one Emily Blunt has been carrying) kept it from feeling precious.
What's happening here isn't accident. Ashley's choices reflect a quiet kind of fashion intelligence: she's championing female designers at every tier—Macy Grimshaw, a 24-year-old Central Saint Martins student who's already caught Harry Styles and Emma Corrin's attention; Gauchere; Nomia. These aren't the names that make headlines. They're the names that make clothes worth wearing. According to Harper's Bazaar, Ashley's recent promotional looks have cycled through everything from vintage Thierry Mugler to fresh-off-the-runway Issey Miyake, but the real throughline is intentionality. She's not performing fashion; she's curating it.
Unlike Andy Sachs, Ashley doesn't need a makeover—her wardrobe already knows exactly who she is.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
