A little over a decade ago, Anne Hathaway’s public persona was in crisis. She had starred in The Princess Diaries and won an Oscar for Les Misérables but was far from being the stylish star of The Devil Wears Prada 2, the most talked-about film in fashion these days. Audiences found her grating, a try-hard theater kid. The internet piled on when she was cast as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises because she wasn’t considered sexy enough. Caustic think pieces speculated about why she was so despised.

Then, in 2019, Hathaway met Erin Walsh. A sought-after stylist, Walsh rose from a fashion assistant at Vogue to dressing everyone from Sarah Jessica Parker to Timothée Chalamet. Her client Kerry Washington has suggested that her red-carpet revamp elevated her professional profile. W

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