05/06/2026
The More You Know: Costume Designer Speak, Molly Rogers. The Devil Wears Prada 2
The veteran costume designer worked for decades under her friend Patricia Field outfitting the likes of Carrie Bradshaw. Then, and just like that, she struck out on her own.
"The most valuable thing I learned from Pat Field, costume designer of The Devil Wears Prada (2006)] is that the costumes from the first film don't date, and that became the goal for the second one."
Molly Rogers’s first call to the studio, after she was hired as the costume designer for The Devil Wears Prada 2, was to inquire about Andy Sachs’s famously frumpy cerulean sweater. “I knew that I wanted it. I just felt it in my bones,” she told The Cut. “After I read the script, I was like, That needs to be the last thing she’s in. That’s a great way to go out. Luckily, it was there, and it’s right behind me now with the corn-chowder stain on it.”
“Annie [Hathaway] had long chats with me about Andy’s reporter life, which had been rich, as in experiences, not financially, and she had traveled a lot, so her world was layered,” Rogers says. “She had opened up and matured, and we needed to illustrate that in her clothes by introducing vintage and mixing it, sometimes wrongly at times. She’s not Emily [Blunt], who is polished and fashion savvy.”
"On the first film, we got on ladders and dug through Donna Karan archives in plastic bags. We stayed all day. Did Pat let me have lunch? No. She said, 'Have a cigarette, have a coffee, and keep it moving.
"Now, if I sent a young shopper to a warehouse in New Jersey, they'd say, 'Why would I ever do that? I can just look at the digital lookbook."
“We went into the Jean Paul Gaultier archive—that was really fun—to look and see what would work. And we went to the Dior archive,” Rogers says of dressing characters for The Devil Wears Prada 2’s Met Gala-inspired ball. The ultimate fantasy-meets-reality moment came when Streep and Tucci, filming in character, crashed last September’s Dolce & Gabbana spring/summer ’26 show during Milan fashion week. “It’s really not easy to do something like that, live, in real-time,” Rogers says.
Every brand was generous in participating, from Dior to Chanel to smaller designers and boutiques, but the bigger revelation is that the Devil still doesn’t really wear that much Prada. “And she didn’t in the first one either,” Rogers shrugs. She says she sent over a wishlist, but the Prada pieces weren’t available, “Who says no to the Devil?” she laughs, before adding: “Meryl always wins. She can wear whatever the hell she wants to. The Devil can wear whatever the f**k she wants.”
The Anna Wintour question lingers, the comparisons are inevitable. Did she have any input? Rogers purses her lips. “No.” She is firm on this. “Meryl Streep has created a character, this is not a documentary.” The mood boards, she says, referenced fashion figures with presence and longevity, not a single living editor. Miranda is a silhouette. When I mention Plum Sykes, who recently wrote about being real life Emily, she immediately shakes her head. “You enter the world of runway, you don’t enter the world of Vogue. There’s not a Plum Sykes lookalike at the desk, okay? But I am sure she’d love that.”
Oh....and Emily.... Emily Blunt's Emily "Kate Moss was the inspiration for Emily-messy, fierce, too cool, a bit dangerous."
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