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Costume designer for ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’: ‘Meryl Streep’s favorite earrings were from a drugstore and cost $9′

In an early scene of The Devil Wears Prada, released exactly 20 years ago, Andy (Anne Hathaway) lets out a little laugh when her boss Miranda (Meryl Streep) questions which belt to use in an outfit. To Andy, those belts look exactly the same; to Miranda, that mockery becomes the pretext to explain, with moral superiority, to her new assistant what the fashion industry is, how it works, and why she — who believes she doesn’t follow runway dictates —i s in fact obeying them without realizing it by wearing that vest in… what color? Light blue? No, darling, it’s cerulean.

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Sketches by Molly Rogers for 'The Devil Wears Prada 2', and images of the protagonists in the film.
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Why Zohran Mamdani's refusal to attend the Met Gala is a historic snub to Anna Wintour

Few people dare to say “no” to Anna Wintour. Zohran Mamdani is one of them. New York’s mayor — who is a socialist and a Muslim — has turned down the invitation to attend the Met Gala, which will take place on May 4.

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The invitation to the Met Gala has been declined by Mamdani, the mayor of New York.
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Photographers Raise Concerns as AI Use Surges Among Clients

A woman poses in front of a gray backdrop in a photo studio, surrounded by large lights, a camera on a tripod, a photographer, an assistant, and a person at a laptop displaying her image.

Are photographers competing against AI? It's a question posed by a recent Vogue article after photographer Jack Davison questioned his Instagram followers on whether it is increasingly becoming an issue.

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Darkroom Assistant’s Scrapbook Contains Unseen Photos Taken by Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton

A split image: left side shows a person taking a bath in a tiled bathroom with boots on the floor; right side shows four soldiers in uniform talking outdoors. Handwritten captions are visible below both images.

A darkroom printer's scrapbook containing previously unseen photos that belonged to Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton has been unearthed and acquired by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries.

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