Vogue’s May cover drop

Vogue just put Anna Wintour on its own cover with Meryl Streep, which is like a newspaper running its publisher next to the actor who played a fictional version of that publisher in a hit movie. The May 2026 issue pairs the real editor and the actress behind Miranda Priestly just weeks before *The Devil Wears Prada 2* opens on May 1, 2026. (fashionista.com) (20thcenturystudios.com) The setup is unusually self-aware because *The Devil Wears Prada* has long been read as a glossy riff on Wintour’s world at Vogue. In the new interview, Wintour says it is “an honor” to be played by Streep, even as she keeps distance between herself and Miranda Priestly. (abcnews.com) The cover also arrives after a real job change that makes the timing sharper. Wintour ran Vogue as editor-in-chief from 1988 to 2025, and she now serves as global chief content officer and artistic director at Condé Nast, the publisher that owns Vogue. (abcnews.com) So the image is doing two things at once. It sells a sequel, and it turns a once-cutting satire about magazine power into a reunion between the person many readers associate with that power and the actress who made it famous on screen. (abcnews.com) (variety.com) Inside the issue, filmmaker Greta Gerwig moderates the conversation, and the credits are almost as loaded as the cover line. Annie Leibovitz shot the images, Grace Coddington styled the feature, and both women are wearing Prada, with Wintour in a red Prada dress and Streep dressed as Miranda Priestly. (fashionista.com) The sequel itself is not a rumor anymore. 20th Century Studios lists Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci in the returning cast, with David Frankel directing again and Aline Brosh McKenna writing again. (20thcenturystudios.com) Trade reporting says the new story brings Miranda Priestly into a worse business climate than the one she dominated in 2006. Deadline reports that the sequel follows Miranda as she faces the decline of print media, which gives the movie a cleaner target than the first film: not just impossible bosses, but an industry that no longer controls culture the way it once did. (deadline.com) That is why this cover landed so hard in fashion circles. In one frame, Vogue is packaging three eras of power at once: Wintour’s real magazine reign, Streep’s 2006 performance, and a 2026 sequel built around what happens when glossy print stops being the center of the room. (abcnews.com) (deadline.com) The interview also softens both women in ways the old Miranda mythology never did. ABC reports that Streep talked about having six grandchildren under age 6, while Wintour said she has four grandchildren and four step-grandchildren and told Vogue that family is what gives “love and support.” (abcnews.com) Streep also says she thought about Wintour when returning to Miranda nearly 20 years later, especially the burden of carrying so much responsibility and staying curious about the world. That line connects the old caricature to the newer pitch of the sequel: Miranda is still exacting, but now she is navigating a shrinking print kingdom instead of ruling an untouchable one. (abcnews.com) (deadline.com)