The Devil Wears Prada 10th Anniversary: Interview With Patricia Field

Here and throughout, scenes from the movie.

1. Miranda Priestley's look was not inspired by the fashion editor you think.

Field met with Streep and her longtime makeup artist before filming and the Oscar winner had some specific ideas about the look and feel of the character. "We sat down and she gave me one idea that was major. She may have gotten her inspiration from [the late Harper's Bazaar editor] Liz Tilberis," Field recalled.

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2. Miranda's entire look was built upon Streep's decision to dye her hair a shocking white.__

"Meryl said that she wanted white hair and I was like, "Yay!" said Field. "What she wanted to do was not easy to understand by the producing community, because they perceived white hair as old, but white hair is not old. But at the end of the day, Meryl got what she wanted because she's Meryl Streep and she gets what she wants. I was so elated because, for me, white hair was something I could play against any color. The white gave me a backdrop and a bigger freedom. ... It gave me the opportunity to be more creative, because it started the palette, painting the portrait for me."

3. Sure, the "Devil" wore some Prada, but she mainly wore looks from this iconic female designer.

Streep and Field spoke about Priestley's look at length and the two collaborated on her look. "She's a fashion editor," said Field of creating Priestley's image. "She has to have a style of her own, not a style of someone else's." Field, a friend of Donna Karan, got access to the designer's New Jersey warehouse, which housed a plethora of body-con looks that made Karan a household name in the '80s. "I went through racks and racks of late '80s and '90s clothing because what made Donna Karan "Donna Karan" was that her clothes flattered and fit women. I was like, OK, a lot of these pieces are unrecognizable after so many years. It fits and it moves and it's not one of the star pieces of the current season. You don't want people to think "Oh, that's a Dolce from last season" or "Oh, that's a Versace from that season." It worked because it fit [Streep] and it flattered her. And she kind of owned it."