Outgoing Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour has kept quiet about her feelings on 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada —until now. Speaking to New Yorker editor David Remnick during a recent episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast, Wintour reflected on the comparisons between her and Meryl Streep ‘s Miranda Priestley.

Remnick asked Wintour if she was hurt by the portrayal. “Well, I went to the premiere, wearing Prada, completely having no idea what the film was going to be about,” Wintour responded. “And I think that the fashion industry were very sweetly concerned for me about the film, that it was going to paint me in some kind of difficult light.”

“Cartoonish?” Remnick asked. “Yes, a caricature,” Wintour agreed. “But, first of all, it was Meryl Streep, which, fantastic.

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