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The person getting the most out of the long \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2\u201d press tour isn\u2019t even in the movie.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t the movie\u2019s lead, Meryl Streep, who got to present at the Oscars<\/a> alongside co-star Anne Hathaway in March. Instead, it was Anna Wintour, the longtime Vogue editor and widely-acknowledged \u201cDevil Wears Prada\u201d subject. Wintour now appears on the cover<\/a> of her own magazine alongside Streep, in a double portrait that emphasizes, if nothing else, Wintour\u2019s iron will. Through sheer force of personality, she\u2019s turned a film franchise once premised on how bad a place Vogue is to work into a promotional opportunity for Wintour, personally.<\/p>\n More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada,\u201d Part 1, didn\u2019t always seem as if it\u2019d be good for the brand \u2014 for Vogue, or, perhaps more importantly, to Wintour. The 2006 film was a lacerating portrait with glimmering moments of humanity; it was based on a novel by a former Wintour assistant, and, though we get to see the wounded creature, and the magazine-making genius, within demonic editor Miranda Priestly, it\u2019s more frequent that she\u2019s making unrealistic demands and behaving with a maddeningly airy dismissiveness. As Streep tells Vogue interviewer Greta Gerwig (why not!), the entire fashion industry \u201cwas afraid of Anna on the first one, so we couldn\u2019t find any clothes.\u201d To collaborate with the film was, potentially, to lose access to Vogue forever.<\/p>\n When the film became a hit, though, Wintour embraced it; both Hathaway and Streep have been (alone) on the cover multiple times since its release, for instance. But there\u2019s embracing and then there\u2019s throttling. It should, but evidently does not, go without saying that Wintour was not in fact creatively involved in \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada,\u201d except as its inspiration. The Vogue story, perhaps predictably, positions her for a moment as a sort of victim of the project, allowing Wintour to narrate a story of learning that the sequel was being made and calling Streep: \u201cI knew she would tell me if it was going to be all right.\u201d To Wintour\u2019s relief, Streep told her it would be fine. Suffice it to say that it\u2019s an unorthodox marketing strategy for a sequel to a hit satire to have the subject of said satire publicly announce that she\u2019s been reassured it won\u2019t go too hard.<\/p>\n Wintour\u2019s seeming omnipresence on the \u201cPrada\u201d tour is blotting out the potential for the movie; we can\u2019t allow ourselves to disappear into Miranda\u2019s world if Anna is sitting on our shoulder, whispering that it\u2019s okay to laugh, so long as we understand that fashion really is a very important industry that we ought to take seriously. (Every time Streep really starts to get going in the Vogue profile, Wintour stops its momentum dead with reflections on fashion that Wintour-watchers have heard before.) In similar fashion, Wintour is appearing on the cover of a magazine she no longer runs day-to-day; in recently ascending to the perch of global editorial director of Vogue, Wintour spoke publicly<\/a> about passing the torch to talented and imaginative protege Chloe Malle. But Malle\u2019s Vogue is, at least for this month, Wintour\u2019s Vogue. Or, given how unorthodox it is for an editor of a journalistic entity to place herself as the cover\u2019s photo subject, perhaps it\u2019s Wintour\u2019s O: The Oprah Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n Appearing as the cover subject and sitting for an interview is simply not something Wintour\u2019s great Cond\u00e9 rivals Tina Brown and Graydon Carter might have done. (Carter placed himself<\/a> on the final fold of his last Vanity Fair \u201cHollywood\u201d issue, shrouded by shadow, but he didn\u2019t then sit for an interview with cover stars Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman.) Say this much, though: Wintour has become something more than editor. In the years since 2006, Wintour has cannily placed her persona of sunglass-wearing hauteur right up against mass culture, and drawn no small measure of fascination from the public. She goes on late night shows<\/a> and does candid videos<\/a> for Vogue\u2019s website, and the contrast between the casual settings and her admirable rectitude generates sparks.<\/p>\n But her star power is of a very particular kind, and it tends to insist upon itself at all costs. Across Cond\u00e9 Nast, the company whose editorial she sits astride, The New Yorker is leading industry coverage<\/a> of A.I. and GQ has reinvented itself<\/a> as the journal of 2020s masculinity; in May, a major motion picture led by a 76-year-old leading lady \u2014 a septuagenarian summer-movie star who somehow rivals Marvel, and in so doing radically reframes potential for her colleagues. Yet here we are, having the same conversation we\u2019ve been having for 20 years or more, all about Anna.<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The person getting the most out of the long \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2\u201d press tour isn\u2019t even in the movie. It wasn\u2019t the movie\u2019s lead, Meryl Streep, who got to present at the Oscars alongside co-star Anne Hathaway in March. 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