Written by Lea Dolan, CNN
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Life imitated art in the front row of the Michael Kors show on Wednesday as assigned seats placed Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and actress Anne Hathaway side by side in a display of genius. public relations.
Wintour was, as always, dressed in her signature style: a pair of dark, eye-catching sunglasses and her quintessential blonde mane, but Hathaway’s outfit looked equally familiar. Wearing a black knit turtleneck, a brown leather coat, and her hair pulled back in a high ponytail with blunt bangs, Hathaway was a facsimile of her on-screen character Andrea Sachs from the 2006 film “The Devil.” Wears Prada.”
Anne Hathaway and Anna Wintour sit next to Serena Williams and Eric Adams at the Michael Kors Spring/Summer 2023 show in New York City. Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
The film, based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel of the same name, chronicles Sachs’ trials and tribulations as she awkwardly navigates her way through the highest echelons of the fashion industry in search of a career in journalism. She ends up briefly as the battered personal assistant to ironclad magazine editor Miranda Priestly (played by Meryl Streep), a character widely credited with being inspired by Wintour herself.
Nearly 17 years later, “The Devil Wears Prada” is still considered one of the most entertaining expositions of the absurdity of the industry. Seeing Hathaway sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with the film’s muse in an outfit that looked like something out of her character Andrea Sachs’s wardrobe (while in the context of a real-life fashion show) was a full-circle moment that the internet quickly caught. with both hands. “He’s hitting Andy Sachs, 2022!” fashion watchdog Diet Prada’s Instagram account wrote in a post that has been liked by more than 250,000 people since last night.
Hathaway looked like the spitting image of her on-screen character, Andrea Sachs, from the 2006 film “The Devil Wears Prada.” Credit: IMBD
But this isn’t the first time Hathaway has engineered a self-referential fashion moment. The actress has starred in a host of films that have become pop culture relics: including her stint as introverted teen-turned-princess Mia Thermopolis in “The Princess Diaries” franchise (2001-2004). Earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival, Hathaway’s ethereal Armani Privé column dress for the red carpet screening of “Armageddon Time” went viral for its resemblance to the royal attire her husband usually wears. character as the Princess of Genovia. 
Hathaway in the front row at the Michael Kors show on Wednesday. Credit: Gotham City/WireImage/Getty Images
Hathaway and Wintour’s exquisitely meta reunion is the perfect conclusion to New York Fashion Week, an event that’s back and bigger than ever this season, after February shows were thwarted by ongoing lockdown restrictions. Covid-19. So stunning is the glamorous paparazzi shot that you can almost hear Priestly’s haunting words whispered through his infamously pursed lips: “Everybody wants this. Everybody wants to be us.”
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