' THE DEVIL WEARS IPRADA 2 ' : SET STAR REVIEW

IF you were strolling around Manhattan's Upper West Side this month - you were able to walk right into the set of '' The Devil Wears Prada 2 '' outside the American Museum of Natural History.

Hanging on the Beaux-Arts facade were two banners with the title Runway, the fictional magazine lorded over by the fearsome Miranda Priestly [ Meryl Streep ], and the words '' Spring Florals, ''  evidently the theme of the gala scene that was about to be staged.

[ Real fans will know there's an irony to this : In the 2006 original, Miranda icily cooed, '' Florals? For spring ! Ground-breaking.'' ]

But running into the '' The Devil Wears Prada 2 '' production has not been an unusual experience this summer in New York.

Streep and her costar, Anne Hathaway, seem to be everywhere, stopping Midtown office workers in their tracks and hopping off curbs while looking busy.

Their images have also flooded TikTok and Instagram, turning the film into a social media phenomenon months before the movie itself hits theaters.

We still don't know much about the sequel, which will reportedly see our favorite characters battling an-all-too-familiar unstable media landscape.

We do know that Miranda's former assistant and our heroine, Andy Sachs [ Ms. Hathaway ], wears a colorfully patterned Gabriella Heart dress and a bucket hat near one of the Jitney buses that take people out to the Hamptons during the summer months.

The imperious Emily, another one of Miranda's former assistants [ played by Emily Blunt], is also back, wearing a Dior shirt with corset and pants from Jean Paul Gaultier.

American Vogue even dedicated an article to the specific shade of her red hair.

And the charming Nigel [ Stanley Tucci] apparently is still in contact with Miranda, despite her betrayal in the original film - or, at least, Mr. Tucci and Ms Streep have been spotted together recently.

Nearly a year before its May 2026 scheduled release, '' The Devil Wears Prada 2 '' feels omnipresent in a way that is both tantalising and, to some, irksome.

A Vogue headline railed : '' Not to Be Dramatic, but the Paparazzi Are Running Movies for all of Us.''

Marie Claire declared : '' I Don't Want to See Any More ' Devil Wears Prada 2 Costumes Until I'm in the Movie Theater.''

The World Students Society thanks Esther Zuckerman.