Everybody wants to be them.
Ahead of the release of “The Devil Wears Prada 2” on May 1, Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour posed together for a very special cover of Vogue — both dressed in Prada, naturally.
Annie Leibovitz photographed the powerful pair for the piece, while Greta Gerwig spoke with the duo about the upcoming sequel (in which Streep plays Miranda Priestly, an icy editor-in-chief inspired by Wintour), the future of fashion, life in one’s 70s (Streep, Wintour and Leibovitz are all 76) and more.
Notably, Streep and Wintour are in no rush to swap jobs.
“There’s no way. I have no gifts. I have absolutely no gifts at all. I can’t sing, I can’t dance, I can’t act, I’m useless with my hands, I can’t cook, I certainly can’t sew,” the Vogue editrix replied when asked whether she’d ever consider an acting career.
Streep, meanwhile, would “dread the shoes” required to wear as the leader of a fashion mag.
“But working with a lot of young people would be thrilling,” she mused. “And to keep all the ideas flowing — I love that kind of engagement — and also just to be creating something that makes people happy. To find beauty. Look for it, nurture it. Support it. That’s a good thing.”
The three-time Oscar winner also told Gerwig about the challenges involved in sourcing Miranda Priestly’s designer wardrobe for the first film, which was released in 2006 and became a box office sensation.
“Everybody was afraid of Anna on the first one, so we couldn’t find any clothes. Nobody would give us any clothes,” Streep admitted.
“This time we pared her down. We made her simpler and just more essentially her. And we do have less hair with me — so that was not as floppy and floopy. She loves an accessory, but there’s a fearless thing with her. Less worried about what anybody thinks.”
