I remember attending the New York premiere of The Devil Wears Prada with my mother. I wore my prom dress—a sage-green beaded ’20s shift from the Paris flea market—and we sat behind Anna (in…Prada) and her daughter, Bee. Bee and I were both in college and discussed our summer plans.
Years later, when the team at Vogue learned about the forthcoming sequel, we all felt strongly that Disney shouldn’t be allowed to have all the fun. The Devil Wears Prada 2 conveniently hits theaters the weekend before the Met Gala, so if we wanted a cover tied to the film, it would need to be May’s. But who to ask? Should it be Meryl? Or what if we asked both “Mirandas”—Anna and Meryl?
Read Vogue’s May 2026 cover story, featuring Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour, here.
In early October, I was sharing the backseat of Anna’s towncar in Paris, gliding up the Rue Capucines to a Balenciaga preview. Discussing spring covers, we got to May, and I gingerly asked, “Would you ever consider being on the cover with Meryl?” An amused curl of a smile, but she didn’t look at me. “That’s very flattering, Chloe, but it’s not really my style,” she said. Well, I thought, I tried. Months later, it turned out to be Meryl who finally convinced her, and I am so grateful. What a way to memorialize a moment in our culture!
When I started working at Vogue some years after that 2006 premiere, friends’ parents, suburban businessmen, and my mom’s doormen would all ask, “Is it like that?” “What’s the most Devil Wears Prada thing that’s happened?” “What’s it like working for Miranda Priestly?” It amazed me how universal this book and film had made Anna and, consequently, Vogue. These were people outside of fashion—men especially. As it happens, Miranda is the role that men most ask Meryl about and see themselves in.
This was just one of the unexpected tidbits from the Meryl-Anna interview accompanying Annie Leibovitz’s cover shoot—a three-way conversation conducted by Greta Gerwig (Meryl’s very good idea!). Topic A was The Devil Wears Prada 2. What made Meryl want to do the sequel? What did Anna do when she heard it was happening? (Answer: She called Meryl.) Meryl revealed she would never actually want Anna’s job (“I would dread the shoes”). Nor could Anna imagine doing Meryl’s (“There’s no way”).
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