Anna Wintour Says Devil Wears Prada Portrayal Was Fair

Anna Wintour said she was not offended by the portrayal of a fictional magazine boss in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada and called the movie "a fair shot," speaking recently on The New Yorker Radio Hour. The longtime Vogue editor in chief, who attended the film's premiere wearing Prada, told host David Remnick she found the movie "highly enjoyable" and praised Meryl Streep's performance and the ensemble cast.

"I went to the premiere, wearing Prada, completely having no idea what the film was going to be about," Wintour said. She acknowledged that colleagues in the fashion industry were "very sweetly concerned" the film would portray her in a difficult light. When Remnick suggested the depiction was "cartoonish," Wintour agreed it amounted to "a caricature." Still, she said, "it had a lot of humor to it. It had a lot of wit. It had Meryl Streep. I mean, it was Emily Blunt. They were all amazing. In the end, I thought it was a fair shot."

The Devil Wears Prada, directed by David Frankel and based on Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel that drew on her time as an assistant at Vogue, follows a young journalist who becomes the assistant to an exacting editor played by Streep. The film...