Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, and Stanley Tucci return to their Runway Magazine characters after 20 years. —Courtesy of 20th Century StudiosIn 2026, if your dream is to work for a big print fashion magazine based in New York City, you’ll need more than talent, drive, or even a trust fund: a time machine is pretty much the only thing that will get you there. There are still a small number of U.S. fashion titles with print editions, but the influence they once wielded has practically vaporized. That’s true even at the magazine considered the great-grandmother of them all, Vogue, long overseen by the discriminating, ultra-frosty Anna Wintour. The landscape of magazines in particular, and journalism in general, is much rockier and more barren than it was in 2006, the year The Devil Wears Prada, a picture that mercilessly mocked Wintour and her ilk, was released. To the world at large, magazines barely matter anymore, and imperious editors who dictate what we want to wear, and why, matter even less. What does a Devil Wears Prada sequel look like in the age of influencers, an era where a teenager with a TikTok account can wield more authority than a longtime fashion-magazine grand dame?The Devil Wears Prada 2, imperfect as it is, is actually a better movie than its predecessor. That’s not to say you’ll necessarily enjoy it more: this is one downer of a fashion fantasy, a movie that’s bracingly honest about both the state of magazines and how that affects…
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