Costume Designer Molly Rogers on Crafting The Devil Wears Prada 2’s Fashion Enjoyable

Fashion followers nonetheless have to attend one other week earlier than The Devil Wears Prada 2—starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci—opens in theaters. But within the interim, now we have a particular deal with: Vogue caught up with the movie’s costume designer, Molly Rogers, to get the inside track on the entire fabulous fashions you possibly can anticipate to see come May 1.

Sitting down with British Vogue’s Alice Newbold for The Run-Through, Rogers spoke about crafting the entire vogue enjoyable for the extremely anticipated sequel. Nobody was extra certified for the job, in any case, given she’d labored with costumer Patricia Field on the primary movie’s wardrobe again in 2006. “I knew I was the best person for it—it really helps having that historical perspective,” Rogers says. “It felt like coming back to summer camp with people that you missed and wanted to see again.”

Her transient for the brand new movie? To construct upon the power and look of the unique, whereas additionally delivering one thing solely sudden to followers. “The DNA of the first film is so strong,” says Rogers. “I wanted to give it my perspective.”

Lucky for Rogers, she had a robust solid of characters to play with. For Runway editor Miranda Priestley (Streep), the style focus was clear from the get-go: Rogers needed outfits that instantly projected energy and energy. “It was obvious that a powerful woman like [Miranda] would have a very strong silhouette,” Rogers says. “She wouldn’t need a lot of frills…With an actress like Meryl, you don’t need to adorn them.”

By the way in which: these somewhat controversial Valentino Rockstud sneakers that Miranda sports activities within the first TDWP2 teaser? Not Rogers’s thought. “I was not there the day they were shooting that scene, and they just popped the shoes on,” she says. “I did not think it was character-appropriate for Miranda to wear a Rockstud, but they liked the way that it looked. When I saw that hubbub about it, I was like, ‘I’m innocent!’”

The costumes Rogers crafted for Emily Charlton (Blunt)—who now has a high-powered job at a serious vogue home—have been no much less putting. “Emily’s character is so sharp-witted, and her costumes had to have the edge of the first movie,” says Rogers. “We went to Century 21 all day long and scooped up Vivienne Westwood, Rick Owens, Margiela.”