When two icons meet!
Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour are cover girls!
The legendary actress and the Vogue Global Editorial Director posed together for the May 2026 issue of Vogue.
The iconic duo spoke with filmmaker Greta Gerwig about fashion, family, friendship, and the upcoming sequel to The Devil Wears Prada, where Merly plays a fictionalized character of Anna called Miranda.
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Anna, on being played by Meryl:
"First of all, I’d like to say it’s such an honor to be played by Meryl, however distant Miranda is from myself. Who wouldn’t think that that wasn’t the most extraordinary gift? I like my age. I feel as alive, excited, and aware as ever, and I like to learn from my children and from all my teams around the world. It’s always exciting. And I think with experience, you have a sense of balance and proportion, and you know that life is not perfect and that things will go wrong and you’re just going to give it your best shot. But if it doesn’t work, you have to move on. I feel age is actually an advantage."
Meryl, on returning to The Devil Wears Prada:
"I was interested in the business part of it, that thing of carrying the weight of many, many people’s jobs, running a big organization, keeping it going somehow. With this one, I thought, Well, where are they going to go? Now that everything’s disintegrating, now that these institutions are being undermined or exploded in a way that who knows what is happening in the world right now—I wondered what they were going to do. And I do think they’ve located something true about the business now."
Meryl, on the evolution of Miranda’s style:
"Well, everybody was afraid of Annaon the first one, so we couldn’t find any clothes. Nobody would give us any clothes. 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."
On how the two would feel if they switched jobs:
Anna: "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."
Meryl: "You run a multinational corporation, that’s all…. I would dread the shoes. Every day, wow, to pull it together. But working with a lot of young people would be thrilling, 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."
Vogue‘s May 2026 issue is available from the 28th of April.
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