Devil Wears Prada 2 costume designer reveals secrets behind fashion film’s trends

The Devil Wears Prada 2 has a lot to live up to, including iconic styles from the first movie.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 costume designer Molly Rogers thinks the fans will decide on the film’s to fashion trend.

Molly, who worked alongside costume designer Patricia Field on the original 2006 classic, has stepped up for the new sequel, and she has been giving some thought about whether an item from the second film can match the first movie’s blue cerulean sweater.

Speaking to PEOPLE magazine, she said: “I feel like the audience decides what they’re going to latch on to, because when we’re in the fitting, we’re just trying to all put together the best possible outfit for the scene that we can.

“The dialogue and everything has so much to do with it. That cerulean sweater monologue, it wasn’t cerulean in the original script. It was just blue.

“We just sent a shopper out, and they ran around and got blue sweaters for that fitting. It became this monster that I think almost everybody I know can quote.”

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is out now, and sees Anne Hathaway reprising her role as Andy Sachs, alongside original co-stars Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton, and Stanley Tucci as Nigel Kipling.

For the sequel, Molly admitted that creating a new wardrobe for Hathaway’s character was a challenge.

She explained: “That was not as cut and dry. She had layers. She was a reporter. She was a New Yorker. She was a smart woman.

“She had had a stint at a fashion magazine and knew that, if she bought a secondhand Giorgio Armani jacket, she would wear it for the rest of her reporting life, probably.”

Meanwhile, the costume designer made sure that her outfits reflected her character, and where she was sourcing each ensemble.

She said: “There were things to try to illustrate on her character that we really had to discover with multiple fittings, because we pulled in vintage, and we wanted it to be a little obvious when she had gotten into the fashion closet and Nigel had loaned her something.

“There’s a big scene that, when she goes out to the Hamptons and he dressed her, you can tell, which is similar to coming out in the thigh-high Chanel boots in the first one.

“It’s that moment of the Kool-Aid has been drunk.”