Meryl Streep Claims ‘Nobody’ Would Provide Clothes to Film “The Devil Wears Prada”

Skyler CarusoTue, April 7, 2026 at 3:33 PM UTC

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Meryl Streep (left) and Anna Wintour.Credit: Macall Polay/20th Century Studios; Jed Cullen/Dave Benett/Getty -

Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour are the cover stars of Vogue's May 2026 Issue

Streep revealed in the interview how her character's style changes in The Devil Wears Prada 2

Wintour has long been considered the inspiration behind Streep's character, Miranda Priestly, in the film

Meryl Streep is pulling back the curtain on The Devil Wears Prada ahead of the sequel's premiere.

The actress, who is reviving her role as the film's iconic fashion editor Miranda Priestly, recalled the challenges of finding designers to dress her in the original movie, in fear of the fashion icon who has long been considered the inspiration behind the character: Anna Wintour.

Streep, 76, and Wintour, also 76, who star on the cover of Vogue's May 2026 issue, sat down with moderator Greta Gerwig for a candid interview about fashion and the making of The Devil Wears Prada. In it, the Oscar winner was asked if Priestly's style changes in the second installment.

Meryl Streep (left) and Anna Wintour.Credit: Everett; Getty

"Well, everybody was afraid of Anna on the first one, so we couldn’t find any clothes," Streep said, revealing, "Nobody would give us any clothes. This time we pared her down. We made her simpler and just more essentially her."

She added, "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."

Also during the interview, Wintour revealed that she called Streep after first hearing rumors that a Devil Wears Prada 2 was in the works. She sought her approval of the storyline, too.

"When I heard rumors that this new film might be happening, I called Meryl to ask if it was true. I knew she would tell me if it was going to be all right," she shared. "She hadn’t yet read the script, so she said she’d call me back. And that’s what she did. She read the script."

Wintour added, "She called me back and said, 'Anna, I think it’s going to be all right.' She told me very little about what happens in the film, but I trusted her implicitly."

Meryl Streep.Credit: Sebastien Nogier - Pool/Getty

While reflecting on the storyline of the 2006-released film, Wintour — who served as the editor-in-chief of American Vogue from 1988 to 2025 —praised the way it portrayed the fashion industry and shared how the sequel evolves with the times.

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"What I liked about the first film is that it showed the world what a huge business fashion is. It’s a true economic force globally, and the first film acknowledged that," she said. "So much has changed. But I like to think we’re evolving rather than disintegrating. We are still here."

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Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly and Anne Hathaway as Andie Sachs in The Devil Wears Prada 2.Credit: Macall Polay/20th Century Studios

Wintour added, "We’re all doing our jobs — in different ways and across multiple platforms instead of just one, but how wonderful is that? We’re reaching far more people."

In September 2025, Wintour shared on an episode of The Run-Through with Vogue podcast her thoughts on the original Devil Wears Prada, which was loosely inspired by author Lauren Weisberger's stint as an assistant to Wintour.

Anna Wintour attends the the 2022 Met Gala.Credit: Noam Galai/GC Images

Podcast host David Remnick asked Wintour whether she was "hurt" by the film when it "first came out" and inquired about how she appeared to eventually “embrace it in a certain way."

"Well, I went to the premiere wearing Prada,” Wintour recalled, adding, “Completely having no idea what the film was going to be about... And I think that the fashion industry [was] very sweetly concerned for me about the film that it was gonna paint me in some kind of difficult light."

Remnick chimed in, "Cartoonish."

“Yes. A caricature. Yeah. But first of all, it was Meryl Streep [playing Priestly, editor-in-chief of the fictional fashion magazine Runway], which — fantastic,” Wintour explained. “And then I went to see the film, and I found it highly enjoyable and very funny.”

She shared that she had discussed the movie “a lot” with a friend and ultimately came to the conclusion that it accomplished what it set out to do — and she holds no hard feelings.

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