Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep brought Devil Wears Prada 2 to Tokyo on the morning of the film’s first Asia premiere, turning the sequel’s latest stop into a runway of its own. Streep wore Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel, while Hathaway arrived in a strapless, ruffle-skirted Valentino gown from the house’s spring 2026 couture collection, finished with Rockstud heels.
The appearance matters because the sequel is being sold through fashion as much as film, and this stop put its two most recognizable faces back in the frame together. The first The Devil Wears Prada, released in 2006, made Hathaway and Streep into one of Hollywood’s most durable on-screen pairings, and the new movie is leaning hard on that legacy as it moves through international promotion.
Hathaway’s press tour began last week in Mexico City, where stylist Erin Walsh dressed her in looks that nodded to the film’s world of magazines, clothing and power. Hathaway wore a black fringed Schiaparelli dress with a sculptural gold belt, then a red sequined Stella McCartney frock with leather thigh-high boots. Walsh said the Mexico City clothes were meant to honor Frida Kahlo’s house and the idea of fashion as art, and she described the red Stella McCartney look as a nod to the leather Chanel boots Andy wears in the first film.
Walsh’s role is part of the sequel’s larger strategy. She is styling Hathaway for the global press tour, and the collaboration stretches back to 2019, giving her a long runway to build a look that can carry both nostalgia and novelty. She also brings a useful piece of history to the job: when the original film came out in 2006, Walsh was at Vogue working for Phyllis Posnick, watching the first movie’s fashion shorthand land inside an actual fashion office.
That gives the Tokyo premiere a neat symmetry. The sequel is not only revisiting a hit; it is being dressed as if it knows exactly why the original lasted. Walsh said she liked starting in black to ground Hathaway, while also honoring the first film and Patricia Field’s costumes, which pushed the story into “magical and unexpected” places. She said the goal now is to show how Andy Sachs has evolved 20 years later, through color, proportion and texture.
Walsh called the tour “supernova,” and the label fits. From Mexico City to Tokyo, the rollout has been less about quiet sequel marketing than about making every stop feel like an event. With Hathaway and Streep both in the room in Tokyo, Devil Wears Prada 2 is no longer just a title on the calendar. It is moving like a fashion story with a release date.
