The Devil Wears Prada first hit cinemas on 30 June 2006, based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel of the same name, which she famously wrote after her own stint as an assistant at Vogue. David Frankel directed, Aline Brosh McKenna wrote the screenplay, and Anne Hathaway played Andy Sachs, the wide-eyed journalism grad who takes a job as junior assistant to Miranda Priestly, the terrifying, magnificent editor-in-chief of Runway magazine, played by Meryl Streep in a performance that’s since become shorthand for controlled, icy power. It made $326 million worldwide and became one of those rare films that didn’t just entertain a generation, it defined how an entire generation of women talked about ambition, compromise, and what we were willing to give up for a career we were told to want.
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