{"id":39665,"date":"2026-04-09T09:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heels.co.in\/news\/?p=39665"},"modified":"2026-04-09T00:23:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:23:45","slug":"in-red-leather-and-bulgari-anne-hathaway-makes-seoul-the-most-fashionable-city-on-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heels.co.in\/news\/in-red-leather-and-bulgari-anne-hathaway-makes-seoul-the-most-fashionable-city-on-the-planet","title":{"rendered":"In Red Leather and Bulgari, Anne Hathaway Makes Seoul the Most Fashionable City on the Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Balenciaga, Bulgari, and Bangs: Anne Hathaway’s Seoul Premiere Look Is a Masterclass in Red-Carpet Storytelling<\/p>\n

There are press tours, and then there are\u00a0statements<\/em>. Anne Hathaway<\/a>, currently navigating the global rollout of\u00a0Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em>, has made her position abundantly clear: every appearance is an editorial, every carpet is a runway, and every look is a deliberate, fashion-literate love letter to the world of Miranda Priestly. She has, in the parlance of the internet, understood the assignment \u2014 and then some.<\/p>\n

At the film’s Seoul premiere on April 8, held at the city’s iconic Times Square shopping mall, Hathaway arrived in a look that could have walked directly off the Balenciaga Fall\/Winter 2026 ready-to-wear runway without a single alteration. Styled by her long-time collaborator Erin Walsh, the actress commanded the carpet in a fire-engine red leather set \u2014 an oversized, cape-draped jacket paired with a matching pencil skirt featuring a zip-front split that pulled into a thigh-grazing slit. The effect was equal parts boardroom and Demna fantasy: powerful, precise, and unmistakably now.<\/p>\n

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The jacket itself deserves its own paragraph. Slouchy yet architectural, it fell into a cape-like drape at the back \u2014 a silhouette that recalls the house’s Summer 2026 collection \u2014 while Hathaway unzipped its high collar and folded it into generous lapels, softening what might otherwise have read as severe. Sleeves pushed casually up the arms completed the studied-but-effortless energy that only the most seasoned red-carpet veterans can pull off convincingly.<\/p>\n

The jewellery told its own story. Hathaway accessorised with Bulgari’s sinuous Serpenti necklace alongside a diamond-and-onyx bracelet \u2014 pieces that added a serpentine glamour to the look without competing with the leather’s inherent drama. Black pumps (Balenciaga, naturally) grounded the ensemble, while a sleek, wavy ponytail \u2014 all except the now-famous Andy Sachs-coded bangs she’s been debuting throughout the tour \u2014 kept the focus precisely where it belonged: on the clothes.<\/p>\n

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What makes this press tour truly remarkable is its coherence of vision. Hathaway isn’t simply wearing beautiful things \u2014 she’s constructing a fashion narrative that mirrors the film’s own mythology. In championing Runway (Miranda Priestly’s fictional magazine) through her real-life red-carpet choices, she’s collapsing the line between character and star, between fiction and fashion week. It is, frankly, the most sophisticated piece of press-tour storytelling this season has seen.<\/p>\n

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And as for the audience? Hathaway has a request \u2014 and it’s one we wholeheartedly endorse. Speaking to Vanity Fair, she channelled the spirit of Barbie’s hot-pink cinema moment: dress up, go to the movies, and wear something Miranda would approve of. Consider it a standing order from the most fashionably committed woman in Hollywood right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Balenciaga, Bulgari, and Bangs: Anne Hathaway’s Seoul Premiere Look Is a Masterclass in Red-Carpet Storytelling There are press tours, and then there are\u00a0statements. Anne Hathaway, currently navigating the global rollout of\u00a0Devil Wears Prada 2, has made her position abundantly clear: every appearance is an editorial, every carpet is a runway, and every look is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":null,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"default","_threads_share_type":"default","_google_business_share_type":"default","_selected_social_profile":null,"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[519,575,6810],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-heels-news","8":"tag-anne-hathaway","9":"tag-black-pumps","10":"tag-devil-wears-prada-2"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ecjxfgbqjgd.exactdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Anne-Hathaway-1.jpg?strip=all&quality=92&webp=92","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heels.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heels.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heels.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heels.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heels.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/heels.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39673,"href":"https:\/\/heels.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39665\/revisions\/39673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heels.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heels.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heels.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heels.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39665"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heels.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=39665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}