Meryl Streep chats fashion
Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour shared a candid conversation about fashion, family and the upcoming The Devil Wears Prada 2, with Streep reflecting on playing a character inspired by Wintour — a moment that reconnects film fashion lore with real-world style authority. The short clip generated heavy engagement online, which shows people still care about the interplay between cinema and fashion personalities. That kind of reunion chat usually sparks renewed interest in costume references and archival looks from the original film. (x.com)
Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour just sat down together for Vogue’s May 2026 cover package, with Greta Gerwig leading the conversation and Annie Leibovitz photographing the shoot. The timing was not accidental: 20th Century Studios has already set *The Devil Wears Prada 2* for a May 1, 2026 theatrical release. (vogue.com) (20thcenturystudios.com) That pairing lands because Streep’s Miranda Priestly has been tied to Wintour for nearly two decades, ever since the first film turned a fashion-editor archetype into one of Hollywood’s most durable bosses. The original movie opened in the United States on June 30, 2006, with Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci at the center. (pagesix.com) (wikipedia.org) The story always had one foot in real fashion media and one foot in fiction. Lauren Weisberger’s novel came out in 2003 after she had worked as an assistant to Wintour, and the 2006 film adaptation kept that “fiction that feels a little too real” energy. (wikipedia.org) (pagesix.com) The new conversation adds a twist to that old mythology because Streep has also said Miranda was not built from one person alone. Recent coverage of the Vogue interview notes that Streep pointed to director Mike Nichols and actor-director Clint Eastwood as part of the character’s DNA, which softens the idea that Miranda was simply “Anna Wintour on screen.” (komonews.com) (vogue.com) What keeps the clip moving online is that it collapses three layers into one frame: the real editor, the actor who played the fictional editor, and the sequel that is about to bring the whole machine back. Vogue’s own setup described the meeting as the result of months of planning, with Grace Coddington styling the shoot alongside Leibovitz’s photography. (vogue.com) The sequel itself is not a vague studio rumor anymore. 20th Century Studios says David Frankel is back directing, Aline Brosh McKenna is back writing, Wendy Finerman is producing again, and the returning cast includes Streep, Hathaway, Blunt, Tucci, Tracie Thoms, and Tibor Feldman. (20thcenturystudios.com) That matters to fans of the first movie because the 2006 film was not just remembered for one speech or one glare. Patricia Field’s costume design helped turn the movie into a fashion reference library, the same way some people rewatch a sports game for one play and others rewatch it for the whole strategy. (imdb.com) (wikipedia.org) So when Wintour and Streep appear together in 2026, people are not only reacting to celebrity chemistry. They are reopening a 20-year-old argument about where Miranda Priestly ended and Anna Wintour began, just as Disney and 20th Century are putting the franchise back in theaters on May 1. (vogue.com) (thewaltdisneycompany.com)
