Vogue’s Anna Wintour addresses those Miranda Priestly comparisons — and why she wears sunglasses indoors

Anna Wintour is getting candid on the misconceptions surrounding her persona.  

“I don’t really think about it,” the Vogue editor-in-chief, 75, told BBC on Tuesday about the rumors. “What I’m really interested in is the creative aspect of my job.”

Wintour touched on how her fashion sense, iconic blonde bob, dark sunglasses and cool demeanor has been compared to powerful magazine editor Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada.”

At the West End gala opening for the musical adaption of the 2006 rom-com, the journalist said the typecast is “for the audience and for the people I work with to decide if there are any similarities between me and Miranda Priestly.” 

Wintour also dismissed the notion that she has never heard the word “no” due to her high-profile standing in the fashion industry.

“That is absolutely untrue,” the editor clarified. “They often say no, but that’s a good thing. No is a wonderful word.”

And do others fear Wintour’s presence like in the film? As she put it, “I hope not.” 

Wintour has run “Vogue” since 1988 and in 2020 became the global editorial director of the magazine. She is also the chief content officer for Condé Nast, the magazine’s parent publisher.

Wintour has maintained her longstanding position as one of the Met Gala’s main co-chair members since 1995 but despite her vast accomplishments over the decades, the icon doesn’t see retirement in her near future.

“I have no plans to leave my job,” Wintour told BBC.

During the interview, the style connoisseur revealed why she wears her signature sunglasses at all times as well.

“They help me see and they help me not see. They help me be seen and not be seen,” confessed Wintour. “They are a prop, I would say.”

The 2006 movie saw Andy (Anne Hathaway) as a recent college graduate who lands a job working as an assistant for Streep’s diabolical editor Miranda.

Meanwhile, a sequel was said to have been in the works in August, with Streep, 75, and Emily Blunt reprising their roles as Miranda and Emily Charlton, respectively.

Now, the project is said to follow the downfall of traditional magazine publishing, forcing Miranda to go head-to-head with her former assistant Emily, who is now a high-powered executive at a luxury fashion group and has the funds Runway magazine needs to stay afloat.

The original movie was based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel about a young woman’s horrible experience while working at a fashion magazine. Rumblings started about who the film was based off of after it was revealed that Weisberger worked as a personal assistant for American Vogue editor Anna Wintour.

“The Devil Wears Prada” earned $326.7 million worldwide and landed Streep a Golden Globe for best actress in a comedy, as well as an Academy Award nomination. Designer Patricia Field was also nominated for an Oscar for the film’s high fashions.

Hathaway, 42, and Blunt, 41, reflected on how “The Devil Wears Prada” became a household name during Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series in 2023.

“We just had a joy bomb of a time on that movie,” Blunt told Hathaway during their conversation. “I don’t know if any of us knew it was going to become what it did. It’s quoted to me every week. It will be the movie that changed my life.”