NEW YORK – Few movies can both generate a meme and put a colour on the map – but The Devil Wears Prada (2006) managed it, and in the same scene. (Cerulean knitwear was never the same.)

A blockbuster in 2006, the movie has only grown more beloved, and more quotable, since.

Two decades after American actress Meryl Streep, as the unsparing fashion editor Miranda Priestly, made a meal of the phrase “that’s all”, comes the sequel.

It has the same director (American film-maker David Frankel) and stars: Anne Hathaway as Andy, the idealistic former assistant with serious journalism chops who is back at Miranda’s magazine Runway; Emily Blunt as the barbed former underling Emily, now a design executive; and Stanley Tucci as Miranda’s loyal right-hand-man Nigel.

The characters endured, but they are all roiled by today’s economics, with tech overlords, corporate consolidations and a crumbling media landscape.

American actress Hathaway, 43, said “things that used to feel so safe now feel so unstable” – on-screen and off. “That was the heart string that just kept coming up for me.”