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Florals for spring? If you’ve seen The Devil Wears Prada, you already know that this isn’t groundbreaking. So when Disney asked me to style the New York press junket for The Devil Wears Prada 2, where journalists would be interviewing Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and other cast members from the film, I knew I had to put my best stiletto-heeled foot forward.

My sartorial challenge: I needed to style a real-life version of the Runway closet, the wardrobe where Hathaway’s character, the ambitious but fashionably challenged Andy Sachs, received a makeover. Journalists would be trying on the clothes and wearing them to interview Streep and Hathaway. So how do you dress an event for arguably one of the most fashion-forward films of our generation?