The film Devil Wears Prada 2 focuses on a character resembling Lauren Sánchez Bezos rather than satirizing fashion industry leaders. In the film, Emily Blunt plays the partner of a billionaire tech mogul. The similarity of this character to Sánchez Bezos became a topic of discussion after the film premiered in New York and London. According to Variety, the Emily character played by Blunt, who was the assistant to a powerful figure in the fashion world in the previous film, appears as the wife of a wealthy man in the technology sector in the sequel.
Additionally, the film includes side stories thought to reference Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife MacKenzie Scott. For example, the ex-wife of the tech mogul played by Justin Theroux is portrayed as someone trying to save the world. The film also highlights Emily’s character asking her husband to buy the fictional fashion magazine Runway. This is linked to rumors about Jeff Bezos purchasing Vogue magazine.
However, Emily Blunt’s representatives firmly denied claims that the character was based on Lauren Sánchez Bezos. Meanwhile, Vogue magazine featured Sánchez Bezos on the digital cover of its June 2025 issue, which sparked debates on social media. Furthermore, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez were sponsors of the 2024 Met Gala event and were alleged to have influenced the distribution of invitations at this event.
The film also contains references to the real-life relationships of powerful figures in the fashion world, such as Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour. Devil Wears Prada 2, as a sequel to the 2006 film, continues to satirize the power dynamics in the fashion and technology worlds.
