“Oh, and if you don’t have that Harry Potter book by then. . . don’t even bother coming back.”
If you have ever watched the 2006 masterpiece that is The Devil Wears Prada, you know that line. Fierce Runway editor Miranda Priestley (Meryl Streep) tasks her assistant Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) with finding an unreleased Harry Potter manuscript for her twins—and she only has the morning to pull off the impossible. Cue Andy running around town in her stilettos and green Calvin Klein dress, where she eventually does source the hefty book. It’s one of the film’s most iconic (and stress-inducing) scenes. And almost two decades later, Hathaway is channeling that energy once again.
Anne Hathaway in The Devil Wears PradaPhoto: Courtesy of Everett Collection
This morning in New York City, the actor was spotted shopping for books in the Upper West Side at Westsider Rare & Used Books—and her tote-carting energy was very modern-day Andy Sachs. Sure, Hathaway is buying books for herself, but one could easily imagine Andy having to schlep uptown to find rare first-editions for her boss, dressed in an impeccable outfit. Her Christopher John Rogers for J.Crew golden barn jacket, for one, is chic—as are her cuffed jeans, heeled boots, and oversized sunglasses. It’s precisely the casual-cool outfit we saw Andy wear at the end of the film, as she trailed off in the distance in search of becoming a newspaper journalist. Call the look Anne-does-Andy.