From "Why billionaire fashionistas hate The Devil Wears Prada 2/At an exclusive soiree on Billionaires’ Row celebrating a private screening of the sequel, guests bemoan sequins, sofa-esque tassels and a ‘lousy script'" (London Times).
May 1, 2026
"One fashionista visibly shuddered when asked her opinion. 'It was terrible. Just awful,' she said."
"'I mean, who was the stylist for that movie?' she gasped, hand to heart. (For the record, it was Molly Rogers, who took over from her mentor, the legendary Patricia Field, mid-way through filming as Fields’s 'dance card was full' with other projects such as Emily in Paris). Perhaps the worst criticism was aimed at the outfits Streep agreed to tolerate for her role. 'They put her in a coat with couch pillow tassels on it! It was criminally ugly,' said one aghast attendee. 'I’ll never get over it.' Or, as Peter Davis, the editor-in-chief of Avenue magazine, said, laughing: 'They should rename it The Devil Wears Bad Clothes.' He went on: 'The fashion was awful but not so bad it was good, like Ab Fab, which the filmmakers should have rewatched for inspiration before rebooting this cheesy, tacky, and worst of all, boring movie.'"
From "Why billionaire fashionistas hate The Devil Wears Prada 2/At an exclusive soiree on Billionaires’ Row celebrating a private screening of the sequel, guests bemoan sequins, sofa-esque tassels and a ‘lousy script'" (London Times).
From "Why billionaire fashionistas hate The Devil Wears Prada 2/At an exclusive soiree on Billionaires’ Row celebrating a private screening of the sequel, guests bemoan sequins, sofa-esque tassels and a ‘lousy script'" (London Times).
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We watched the original last night again. Mrs. MJB wanted to prepare for the sequel.
I detest all movies with Meryl Streep in them. She is completely over-rated.
"I mean, who was the stylist for that movie?"
As if real fashion doesn't veer into the absurd and ugly quite often and quite deliberately. Please! Some people think they do it because they despise the very people who wear what they design.
I actually did LOL when that photo came up.
She looks good in that dumb jacket. It's perfect for her.
We now need a video of AI Meryl Streep, in character, ripping the movie with AI Anne Hathaway looking sheepishly at her feet and AI Stanley Tucci watching approvingly.
testing.
Cousins?
Miranda Priestly: "This stuff"? Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your living room and you select, I don't know, those drapery tassels, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that coat is not just tasseled, it's not roped, it's not tie-backed, it's actually chainetted. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2022, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of chainette military uniforms for the Italian special forces. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent, wasn't it, who showed chainette after-golf apparel?
Michael Scott loved it. He gave the impression that it was a seminal work for him.
Surely the strongest trend since the first film has been the Gen Z shift against buying new, fast fashion in favour of second-hand, vintage etc? An industry rapidly losing its customer base?
The Emily Blunt character was the best thing in the first film, the main character being a bit thin. Still, Meryl Streep is always good value. I’ll watch this on a long-haul flight at some point to help digest the inflight meal.
The second movie is crap product because the first movie was crap product because the original novel wasn’t all that great.
There’s a 2009 Anna Wintour documentary called The September Issue I can’t recommend highly enough.
Everybody at Vogue gets a documentary. Andre Leon Talley and Carine Roitman (French Vogue) for example.
At some point, more money cannot improve on a piece of clothing - the fabric is as good as can be made, the accessories (buttons, zippers, etc.) are as well crafted as possible and made out of as fine a set of materials as exist, so on. Once you reach that point, it seems the decision is to make the clothing uglier and less functional, so that the common folk can see how much wealth you must have.
Peachy, ever see The Orchid Thief? Goes against her usual type somewhat, and Nick Cage and Chris whathisname are good too.
"Fashion" is a way that certain people can laugh their asses off at other people. And, make them pay bigly for the the thrill of making fools of themselves.
Another Hollywood reboot to resurrect another leftist has-been.
Mike Wolff - Nope. I'm not much of a movie-buff. I've seen enough to know that I'm not interested in being a movie buff.
opps - Mike "Wolf"
With high fashion and modern art it's very difficult to tell if you're being put on or if some portion of the population has better taste or whatever than you. It's very difficult to parody something that is so over the top........I saw the first movie. I have a vague memory that it was okay, but apparently that movie was a milestone in some people's lives. The people who loved the first movie will probably get the joke in Streep's coat if, indeed, it's a joke. It's not a coat to wear around moving machinery on the assembly line.
Meryl, that that gown is gorgeous! Thank you…I saw it in the window and I just couldn’t resist…
Yee Gods!
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Stop denying the Climate!
It's the sort of movie that certain people would have to hate - the reasons are almost irrelevant.
I thought a point of the movie was ridiculing the fashion industry and the absurd clothes were part of that. Either I'm wrong or the quoted people didn't get the joke.
I detest all movies with Meryl Streep in them. She is completely over-rated.
I detest Meryl Streep herself, and not just for her typical witless left-wing Hollywood foolishness.
If you recall, she led a standing ovation for Roman Polanski at one of the awards shows a while back. This was a man who admitted in court that he had plied a 13-year-old girl with alcohol and Quaaludes so that he could sodomize her without resistance, and then fled the country and has remained a fugitive from justice ever since then.
Wife and daughter went and saw her new show last night. I tried to convince them that this beastly woman and the rest of the Hollywood sewer doesn't deserve a penny of the money I sweated for, but it fell on deaf ears.
"Meryl Streep with tassels" prompted a different image in my mind....CC, JSM
Peachy--Rosa DeLauro was the first person I thought of when I saw the pic.
The first movie was somewhat amusing but mostly just silly. The silliest part is that during the first half you were supposed to believe that Anne Hathaway looked “dowdy” owing to her poor fashion sense. She couldn’t pass for dowdy wearing a garbage bag. That photo of Meryl makes me think they’re going to explore whole new dimensions of silliness in this one.
It's kind of like a re-hash of 'The Emperor's New Clothes', with the added benefit that Meryl Streep isn't actually naked, but covered in tassels.
What I found even sillier about the first movie was the loser boyfriend's life choices' being valorized over the ordinary (ok, possibly ordinary in the fashion industry - but in most fields I would say "exaggerated") dues-paying of the entry level job. God forbid you should have to reschedule a birthday dinner because of your job.
Did they interview the guy from Airplane? "Where did you get that dress, it's awful, and those shoes and that coat, jeeeeez!"
Maybd the author wesiberger might pass as dowdy
Okay, Peachy, I take your point and won't follow my Southern gentleman instinct to preface my comment with "sorry." That jacket is some ugly shit. Is ugly shit pretending to be important today's theme?
Hassayamper - indeed. Meryl Streep is vile - that she is a rabid leftist is not a surprise.
She also applauded Harvey Weinstein with gross gushing gusto. That didn't wear well.
LOL - Just an old country Lawyer.
Sing it.
Shes as slithy a tove as wintour publicist for alma assad
Of course runway could never be as parody as teen vogue
How do you make a good movie for women or about women?
Aren't they all just Cinderella with different clothes and makeup?
Actual rock musicians thought Spinal Tap was hilarious because its parody exaggerations were not far from the truth.
Actual fashionistas must be far less self-aware than rockers. CC, JSM
Project Runway (which the Prof used to blog about here) is a parody of the fashion industry, by the fashion industry. CC, JSM
Its very ouroboros
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