What Simone Ashley and Gaurav Gupta bring to The Devil Wears Prada 2

The promotional juggernaut for The Devil Wears Prada 2 is inescapable. The nostalgia of the film, this time post iPhone release, and its familiar, scathing characters, feel like old friends visiting us in a post-digital world.

During a recent Instagram scroll, I came across an interview with Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep; a young journalist, midway through the film’s Asia tour, recounted how she had enrolled in Andy Sachs’ (the character Hathaway played) alma mater as a direct consequence of the film. “It’s how I discovered fashion,” she said. “And that part of the world.”