The Devil Wears Prada is a strange title to revisit in 2026 because so much has changed in the 20 years since. For one thing, toxic work environments stopped being a laughing matter in 2017, when the New York Times called out Harvey Weinstein (current residence: Rikers Island). For another thing, so much of our culture has been revolutionized by online delivery services that there’s no longer any comic leeway to be had from the sight of Anne Hathaway running through New York traffic clutching a dozen extra-hot, no-foam, extra-shot non-fat caffè lattes and balancing six pairs of Jimmy Choo shoes on her head while walking a Saint Bernard (surely there’s a Door Dash now for that).
To its credit, David Frankel’s The Devil Wears Prada 2 does accept that time has passed, and when we rejoin it, Runway magazine is no longer the iconic media institution it
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