Anna Wintour Says ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Was a ‘Fair Shot’

Anna Wintour is getting candid about The Devil Wears Prada.

The former Vogue editor-in-chief, 75, opened up on the Tuesday, Sept. 9 episode of The Run-Through with Vogue podcast about her thoughts on the film — which was loosely inspired by author Lauren Weisberger’s stint as an assistant to Wintour.

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,” the British-American fashion icon recalled. “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,” she continued, to which Remnick chimed in, “Cartoonish.”

“Yes. A caricature. Yeah. But first of all, it was Meryl Streep [playing the lead, Miranda 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.

“I think, listen, it had a lot of humor to it. It had a lot of wit. It had Meryl Streep… It was Emily Blunt [who played Priestly’s assistant Emily]. I mean, they were all amazing. And I, in the end, I thought it was a fair shot,” she shared.

Elsewhere in the podcast, Remnick jokingly asked Wintour if she was “actually thrilled when assistants move at a glacial pace” — quoting an iconic line from the movie, which Streep’s character Priestly delivers to Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs.

“Nobody at Vogue moves at a glacial pace, least of all my assistants,” Wintour quipped in response.  

The podcast comes several months after Wintour stepped down from her position as editor-in-chief of Vogue — a position she’s held since 1988 — in June. Last week, the company announced that Chloe Malle, the former editor of Vogue.com, would become the head of editorial content, replacing Wintour.

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However, Wintour will continue at Vogue parent company Condé Nast as the company’s global chief content officer and global editorial director at Vogue, according to reports from The Daily Front Row, WWD and Business of Fashion.

“When I became the editor of Vogue, I was eager to prove to all who might listen that there was a new, exciting way to imagine an American fashion magazine,” Wintour told Vogue in June. “Now, I find that my greatest pleasure is helping the next generation of impassioned editors storm the field with their own ideas …”