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Last week, news broke that Disney is reviving “The Devil Wears Prada” — but the fashion media landscape has changed a lot in the 12 years since the original film was released. Don’t forget to subscribe to the Glossy Podcast for interviews with fashion industry leaders and Week in Review episodes, and the Glossy Beauty Podcast for interviews from the beauty industry. –Danny Parisi, sr. fashion reporter
Deal with the Devil
Last week, Disney announced the production of a sequel to the 2006 comedy “The Devil Wears Prada.” The original film starred Meryl Streep as the high-powered editor of a fictional fashion magazine — her character was almost certainly based on longtime Vogue editor Anna Wintour, who is still in charge of the fashion magazine.
When the first film came out, fashion magazines were still at the height of their power. The internet hadn’t yet reshaped the entire media industry and figures like Wintour, or her fictional counterpart Miranda Priestly, still loomed large. While Vogue’s leadership may not have changed since 2006, many other elements of the industry have.
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