Finished with a marbled sole, the heel offered a quieter kind of power - a shift from earlier sculpted platforms.

The highly-anticipated “Devil Wears Prada 2” will see Streep return as eternally aloof magazine queen Miranda Priestly, a character which has long been believed to be a stand-in for Vogue’s former editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour. Anne Hathaway will reprise her original role, now playing a chicer, older and wiser version of journalist Andy Sachs.

Stanley Tucci, Meryl Streep and Simone Ashley were at the American Museum of Natural History and Anne Hathaway and Patrick Brammall danced in Brooklyn.