Groundbreaking. Or maybe, actually, iconic? I’d say iconic, especially coming from Meryl Streep, the ever-fabulous embodiment of sass, doing her best impression of the Fashion Giants (which may or may not include former Vogue chief editor Anna Wintour, but that’s a story for another day). This twenty-year-old quote has enough venom-laced sarcasm to still have pop culture power in 2026, and its very own Wikipedia blurb (move over Oscars, that’s the award I’d want). If you don’t know what I’m talking about (which I may only give grace to actual rock dwellers), then let me fill you in on the book turned hit film, The Devil Wears Prada.

Skeptic and fashion failure (taken with a huge grain of salt, it’s hard to make Anne Hathaway look bad in anything) Andy lands a job at Runway magazine as an assistant for the chief editor, which doesn’t align at all with her more hard-hitting journalistic dreams. But that soon becomes a Very Little Problem the more she works with Miranda Priestly-cold, critical, and maybe put in the heart of New York City’s towering office buildings just to make people’s lives worse. Hence the devil wearing Prada (or sometimes Chanel, or Fendi, or any other big-name brand you can think of). Andy’s work drama might make anyone’s typical office woes look small as things from Runway start to boil over into the rest of her life, and she starts to weigh just how important the job is the more she loses her friends, her relationships, and herself to it. It was, for its time, a pretty on the nose critique of the fashion industry despite some detractors who can’t hold up a mirror, and though my description might not make it sound as quote-slinging worthy fun as it definitely is, Streep’s deadpan humor as the titular devil and Hathaway’s endlessly nerdy, down-to-earth charm make the movie more than its parts. You just have to watch it.    

So, now that you’re in the loop, let’s get to how groundbreaking florals for Spring are. Did the season maybe dredge up that quote as a knee-jerk reaction to the word Spring? Maybe (definitely). Do I also have a good reason to bring it up as the sequel to The Devil Wears Prada is finally coming out next month (May 1^st!), nearly twenty years after its release? Also, yes. So, to not disappoint Miranda Priestly and earn myself a withering stare over some designer Ray-Bans, I’ve scoured our shelves for books that fit the brief. Florals for Spring. Allow me to break some ground.