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By Colleen Barry
September 28, 2025 — 11.32am
The Devil wore Dolce & Gabbana on Saturday, with Meryl Streep taking a front-row seat at the designing duo’s Milan theatre in character as Miranda Priestly for The Devil Wears Prada sequel.
Streep wore Priestly’s customary sunglasses and a Dolce & Gabbana vinyl trench coat as she entered the theatre escorted by security and trailed by Stanley Tucci, who plays her art director in the film.
Stanley Tucci and Meryl Streep at the Dolce & Gabbana spring summer 2026 collection in Milan, Italy, on Saturday.Credit: AP
Throughout the runway show Streep’s character consulted with Tucci, their eyes casting up and down the runway as models passed.
The Dolce & Gabbana press office confirmed that the scene was filmed for inclusion in the sequel, which has been shooting in Milan.
The location will remind movie fans of a scene from the original film where Anne Hathaway’s character, after answering the phone, asks: “Can you please spell ‘Gabbana?’”
The designers posed just a beat or two longer during their customary bow, and Streep and Tucci were whisked to the backstage area as the real-life fashion crowd jumped on the empty runway to snap photos of the moment in fashion history.
In a life-imitating-art-imitating-life meta moment, Anna Wintour, who inspired the 2006 film, sat across the runway from Streep in her role as Vogue’s global editorial director.
Wintour and Streep were then seen meeting and hugging in a short video released by Vogue.
“This is my first fashion show,” Streep tells Wintour. “Not kidding, my first.”
Wintour has skirted around Streep’s performance as the magazine editor widely believed to be modelled on her in the 2006 film which was based on a book of the same name written by a former Vogue assistant Lauren Weisberger.
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But in an interview with The New Yorker earlier this month Wintour said, “I went to the premiere [of the film] wearing Prada, completely having no idea what the film was going to be about”.
“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,” she told editor David Remnick.
“I found it highly enjoyable. It was very funny. Miuccia [Prada] and I talk about it a lot, and I say to her: ‘Well, it was really good for you.’”
Wintour said she found the film witty and funny and “in the end I thought it was a fair shot”.
The sequel is due in cinemas next year.
AP, Reuters
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