Why The Devil Wears Prada 2 Is Jurassic Park for the Fashion Industry

May 2026

 

You know your movie about the fashion industry is in trouble...

 

When you have a cameo by Kara Swisher...

 

You know...

 

The tech journalist...

Who drips with condescension toward anyone who disagrees with her politically...

And is best known most recently for her seething vitriol toward Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk...

 

Because Swisher dresses like a 40 year old dad...

Who buys his own clothes...

At Walmart...

 

But I guess she was there because the plot of The Devil Wears Prada 2...

Involves tech bros buying the magazine...

 

Didn’t Succession already do this?....

 

And Justin Theroux’s character is a composite of Jeff Bezos and Zuckerberg...

A “I’ve sculpted myself into hotness” middle-aged man with a sexy new girlfriend...

But who is on the spectrum...and almost childishly naive...

For someone with that much money...

 

And Lucy Liu gets to play the tech bro’s ex-wife...

Hint...hint..

McKenzie Bezos...

Who gets to save the world with her ex-husband’s money...

 

But if you are going to make a movie about the high fashion...

Maybe you might want to have some decent clothes...

 

And not have the wardrobe look like Meryl Streep was the fashion consultant on your movie...

 

And if you have ever seen Streep on the red carpet...

You’ll know I am not being kind here...

 

Because if there was an award for the worst dressed celebrity in Hollywood...

Streep would win it...

 

Year after year...

  

So not only did some of Miranda’s clothes look like they were leftovers from the worst of the 80s...

I swore I saw her wearing a Donna Karan belt from that decade...

 

And someone obviously had a bolt of sequined material they needed to use up...

Because that material was wrapped around everyone in this movie...

 

And those tassels that covered Miranda’s jacket...

Looked like a production assistant had raided a closet full of Victorian curtains...

 

Now I get that haute couture sometimes needs to be flamboyant..

But the only person who did that well in this movie was Jon Baptiste..

And I suspect he wore his own clothes...

 

And I also think someone hates Emily Blunt...

Because she had to wear jumpers throughout the entire film...

 

And I’m sorry...

 

No one who is morbidly obese would ever be hired as a receptionist at a fashion magazine...

 

Now the old gang is back...

And doing the same old same old in The Devil Wears Prada 2...

But the magic is gone...

 

Miranda is still as cold as an iceberg... and in danger of being ousted...

 

Stanley Tucci is still picking out clothes for Andy...

 

Who is still acting like a little giggly girl with all the ”right values” ...

But who is temporarily forced to work in a world of expensive artifice...

That she, of course, would never succumb to...

 

Emily is still the insecure fashionista...

 

And Andy is still trying to stage manage Miranda’s survival at the magazine...

 

EXCEPT...

 

There is a Great Big Elephant in the room..

That couldn’t be ignored in this movie...

 

The world of the original The Devil Wears Prada...

 

IS GONE.....

 

And that haunts this movie...

 

And defangs the Queen of Mean... Miranda...

Who is now obviously constrained by HR...

And ruling over a declining business...

 

And she knows it...

Which forces her to be uncharacteristically restrained in this film...

Which makes her no fun to watch...

 

And kind of pathetic...

As well as sad...

 

Much like this film...

 

And we didn’t come to see that...

 

Because these kind of films are supposed to be aspirational...

Not funerial...

 

And the screenwriters don’t quite know what do to about the collapse of the  media industry writ large...

Of which Andy is a recent victim...

 

Other than lament it...

 

And lament it they do...

 

Because the film is filled with brave laid off journalists bemoaning an industry that no longer wants them...

And who still think it’s 1973 and they are Woodward and Bernstein doing God’s work...

 

But I’m sorry...

 

That ship has sailed...

 

About the time you decided that you needed to throw away any pretense of objectivity...

Because you needed to save the world...

From...

You know who...

 

But go ahead Bon Appetite...

Keep writing glowing profiles of Graham Platner...

Because we all want political propaganda with our recipes...

 

And you all can keep ignoring what happened to Teen Vogue...

 

Now The Devil Wears Prada 2...

Kind of gets this...

Because supposedly no one is reading Andy’s feature articles in Runway on global warming...

 

But you can tell no one wants to believe this...

As the magazine flails around trying to recapture its cultural relevance in a digital age...

So Miranda fills her Hampton’s party with real influencers...

 

But no Kardashians...

Because they probably knew better...

 

But there are cameos by Tina Brown, Heidi Klum...

And Donatella Versace... who now looks like a character in a plastic surgery horror movie...

 

Media and fashion dinosaurs from a bygone age...

So the whole film has a Jurassic Park feel...

 

Runway still plans an over the top Milan event...

Like the old days...

 

But everyone knows the days of the big budgets...

That allowed magazines in the Runway vein to hire talented...

But exorbitantly expensive photographers like Annie Liebovitz..

To produce fashion shoots that were almost gallery-like in their quality...

Are long gone...

 

Along with the glossy full page ads....

Where the masses saw clothes they could actually afford...

And then find...

At their local department store...

 

Which made Vogue for years the fashion bible...

 

But go to these magazines websites today...

And you will see the ads are few and tiny...

And the print editions have shrunk to nothing...

As advertising has moved elsewhere...

 

So why read them...

 

Because we can now get our fashion fix on TikTok and Instagram...

 

But The Devil Wears Prada 2...

 

Wants to believe this can be fixed...

 

If the magazine can find a rich patron with tech bro money...

Like the Atlantic...

Who will let writers like Andy do “Real Journalism”...

 

Coupled with a little fashion...

 

So the final scene of the film...

With Andy roaming the halls of Runway in boyfriend jeans and a sweater vest...

 

Is the tell...

 

And that is exactly what has happened at Vogue...

The inspiration for the Devil Wears Prada movies...

 

Anna Wintour has gone off into the sunset...

 

And they hired their own “Andy”...

Chloe Malle...

The nepo baby Feature Writer for the magazine...

 

Who has all the fashion sense of a grandmother in Poughkeepsie...

 

And who apparently thinks that articles ...

About young women reading “real books” on the subway...

 

Will “save” the magazine...

 

But I’m not holding my breath....

 

While I scroll to see who wore what at the Grammy’s....

 

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