Twenty years on, The Devil Wears Prada still fits, and its sequel is dressed to impress. The Devil Wears Prada 2 opened last weekend and collected roughly $77 million at the North American box office — the biggest domestic opening for a traditional comedy since 2015 — thanks, mostly, to women. Ticket buyers were 76% female, according to film industry research service PostTrak. Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan told NPR that the original endures because it pulled back the curtain on an industry people find equal parts alluring and alienating, while demonstrating how women like Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly command respect by wielding quiet and intimidating power.
