Anne Hathaway’s (43) Final Press Tour Outfit Was the Green ‘Devil Wears Prada’ Coat, and It Was Purchased at Auction
Anne Hathaway saved the best look for last, and it was one audiences had already seen before. The actress closed out her promotional run for ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ by stepping out of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in the original green coat worn by Andy Sachs during the iconic makeover montage in the 2006 film. Twenty years later, the coat still stops traffic.
The coat in question features a green base with leopard-trim detailing, and Hathaway wore it with updated accessories courtesy of her longtime stylist Erin Walsh, including a Bulgari cat-eye sunglasses swap and a chocolate-brown slingback shoe in place of the original gold heels. The changes were subtle enough to honor the original while making it feel current, which is precisely the kind of fashion storytelling the press tour had been building toward from the start.
The decision to end the tour on this note was entirely intentional. Stylist Erin Walsh explained the thinking to Vogue, saying that Hathaway wanted to close the promotional journey with a direct nod to the original film, and that the coat felt like the right piece to do it with. The reveal that Hathaway had actually purchased the coat at auction made the moment land even harder, turning what could have been a simple wardrobe callback into something genuinely personal.
Costume designer Patricia Field, who dressed Hathaway in the first film, has previously spoken about the coat as one of her favorite looks for the character of Andy Sachs, describing how the green popped against the gray streets of Manhattan and served the story as much as it served the eye. That kind of purposeful design is part of what made the original film’s fashion so enduring, and seeing the same piece resurface two decades later on the same actress carries that legacy forward in a way that is hard to manufacture.
The sequel, directed by David Frankel, picks up twenty years after the original, with Hathaway’s Andy reintroduced as an award-winning investigative journalist who finds herself pulled back into the orbit of Runway magazine and Miranda Priestly. The film has already opened to a massive global audience, with the entire returning ensemble generating significant buzz.
Throughout the press tour, Walsh and Hathaway had been threading references to Andy’s earlier looks into the modern wardrobe, including a stop in Tokyo where she wore a Sacai reimagining of Andy’s cerulean sweater, updated with fringed tiers and an off-the-shoulder neckline. The green coat, then, was the final chapter of a fashion story being told in parallel with the film itself.
It is a reminder of how much the original ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ mattered as a fashion text, not just a film. That a coat from a makeover montage in 2006 can close out a global press tour in 2026 and still feel like a statement says everything about the staying power of that world and the people who brought it to life.
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