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Life imitated art in the front row of the Michael Kors show on Wednesday, when Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and actress Anne Hathaway were assigned seats next to each other in a display of PR genius.
Wintour was, as always, wearing her signature look — a pair of dark sunglasses that framed her eyes and her incredible blonde bob — but Hathaway’s outfit looked just as familiar. Dressed in a black knit collar, a maroon leather coat and her hair in a high ponytail styled with an open fringe, Hathaway was a facsimile of her on-screen character Andrea Sachs from the 2006 film “The Devil Wears Prada”.
Anne Hathaway and Anna Wintour sit next to Serena Williams and Eric Adams at the Michael Kors Spring/Summer 2023 show in New York City. Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
The film, based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel of the same name, follows the trials and tribulations of Sachs as she moves clumsily through the upper echelons of the fashion industry in pursuit of a career in journalism. She ends up briefly as the mistreated personal assistant to iron-fisted magazine editor Miranda Priestly (played by Meryl Streep), a character widely acknowledged to have been inspired by Wintour herself.
Almost 17 years later, The Devil Wears Prada is still considered one of the most entertaining exposés on the industry’s absurdity. Seeing Hathaway sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with the film’s muse in an outfit that looked ripped from her character Andrea Sachs’ wardrobe (all the while in the context of a real-life fashion show) was a full-circle moment that the Internet grabbed quickly. with both hands. “Give it to Andy Sachs, 2022!” wrote Instagram fashion watcher Diet Prada in a post that has been liked by more than 250,000 people since last night.
Hathaway looked the image of her on-screen character Andrea Sachs from the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada. Credit: IMBD
Hathaway’s front row at the Michael Kors show on Wednesday. Credit: Gotham/WireImage/Getty Images
