Nearly two decades after the fact, Anna Wintour is finally giving her review of “The Devil Wears Prada,” the 2006 Anne Hathaway comedy built around the onetime Vogue editor in chief’s notorious style of leadership.
And although Wintour is more than fashionably late, she’s showing up in time for the sequel.
The film “had a lot of humor to it, it had a lot of wit, it had Meryl Streep,” Wintour said recently on the New Yorker Radio Hour. “(The cast) were all amazing. And in the end, I thought it was a fair shot.”
The famed editor, who stepped down from the Vogue gig this summer, said she went into the premiere of the original film wearing Prada but not knowing what the movie was about.
Wintour said people in the fashion industry had expressed concerns about the Miranda Priestly character,