The ‘DWP2’ Costume Designer Has Some Words for the Met Gala

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On Monday night, just days after The Devil Wears Prada 2 hit theaters, several members of the cast — including Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci — showed up to the Met Gala, where they shared the beige carpet with controversial co-host Lauren Sánchez Bezos. One person who apparently was not so thrilled about the cast’s presence at the gala: Molly Rogers, the film’s costume designer. Rogers — who also worked on the first movie as a costume assistant to her mentor, Pat Field — criticized the Met Gala and its cozy relationship with the Bezoses on Wednesday during a panel held by Fashionphile, per “Page Six.” “I would not have gone,” Rogers said. “I am disappointed in people who did go. I know Meryl [Streep] did not go. I know others from our cast went, which is their prerogative.”

Although the Met Gala has long been a place for the ultrarich and famous to see and be seen, the event received even more backlash than usual this year thanks to the Bezoses’ prominent roles. Hours before the event kicked off, hundreds of people gathered for the Ball Without Billionaires, a fashion show–cum-protest in which Amazon workers served as the models. Later in the evening, as protesters gathered outside the museum, Chris Smalls, who organized the first Amazon warehouse union, was arrested after trying to force his way onto the carpet with an anti-Amazon protest sign.

Rogers seemed to nod to Smalls’s efforts on Wednesday, saying, “I think the real artistry was the guy who was protesting outside.” She also weighed in with an official take on Sánchez Bezos’s dress: “How did she make Schiaparelli look so cheap?!” Miranda Priestly couldn’t have put it any better.

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