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At a moment of cultural transition, as the internet began seeping into modern life, "The Devil Wears Prada " was released just one year before the iPhone. Looking back, it feels almost mythic: a glossy snapshot of the last gasp before fashion, media and culture were flattened by algorithms and redirected ad dollars. Despite arriving in the shadow of a world still recovering from post-9/11 anxiety and inching toward economic collapse, the era retained a kind of aspirational charm rooted in the unreachable glamour of print magazines and the fantasy of New York City. Maybe that’s why the film has endured. All of us in fashion and adjacent worlds know David Frankel’s 2006 film all too well — the cutting one-liners, the cerulean monologue and its distinctly noughties sense of glamour defined by a world still lived fully in the moment. It captured an industry on the cusp of immense change, when print journalism still held cultural authority. Now, the internet has completely trans...