Meryl Streep Is the Ultimate Editrix in Sarah Burton’s Givenchy at the Devil Wears Prada 2 Premiere
- Matthew Velasco
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“What’s the point of playing ‘the devil’ if you can’t play a trick or two every once in a while?” Streep’s stylist Micaela Erlanger tells ELLE.
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Method dressing or not, Meryl Streep delivered a devilishly sharp entrance worthy of Miranda Priestly’s approval at the global premiere of The Devil Wears Prada 2 in New York tonight. Just minutes before her scheduled arrival at Lincoln Center, Streep made a pre-premiere pivot, stepping out in a cheetah-print Gucci coat from Demna’s “La Famiglia” collection. But that wasn’t what she ultimately chose to wear on the red carpet—she had another trick up her editrix sleeve.
“Well, we knew that there was so much interest around what Meryl was going to be wearing tonight,” the actress’s stylist Micaela Erlanger tells ELLE exclusively. “We wanted to throw fans off with a look that photographers would capture her in beforehand. So we put her in this over-the-top Gucci tiger coat that was impossible to miss and so fun on its own. It was like we got to add one more moment, before the big moment.”
Streep’s actual premiere look by Sarah Burton for Givenchy embodied the authority of Priestly, with all the poise and prowess that’s made her own style so singular. Streep wore a red-orange cape coat complete with a matching tie affixed loosely to the neckline, selected from Givenchy’s fall 2026 collection. The actress brought Priestly’s editor’s eye to the look—instead of the gathered cheetah gloves shown on the runway, she heightened the drama with a full-leather, opera-style pair. David Yurman jewelry and Stuart Weitzman shoes were the finishing touches.
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Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, Meryl Streep, and Emily Blunt at The Devil Wears Prada 2 global premiere.
Streep’s switch-up this evening is perhaps her most overtly “method” moment of her entire press tour thus far. In the upcoming sequel, Priestly’s closet—lined with Julian Klausner for Dries van Noten and Schiaparelli grails by Daniel Roseberry—pushes deeper into insider territory than the original, something Streep and Erlanger have winked at throughout the tour.
“There’s nods the fashion community will pick up on,” the stylist adds, pointing out the Saint Laurent fall 2025 coat dress Streep wore to a fan event in Shanghai, which pays homage to Priestly’s infamous cerulean monologue. “Then there are less subtle nods that more people would recognize the reference for. It has all been artfully considered.”
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Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep at a The Devil Wears Prada 2 fan event in Shanghai.
But Streep isn’t exclusively aligning her wardrobe with Priestly’s. In between those tongue-in-cheek moments are callbacks to her own career. To kick off the tour in Mexico City, the actress pinned a collection of brooches onto a bright red Dolce & Gabbana suit: ribbons from when Barack Obama presented her with the National Medal of the Arts, alongside rosettes from the Kennedy Center Honors, the Princess of Asturias Awards, and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. “It speaks to what an extraordinary person and talent she is,” Erlanger says.
Streep’s co-star Anne Hathaway has taken a similar approach with her stylist Erin Walsh, favoring polished, character-adjacent looks over literal recreations of Andy Sachs. No, Priestly and Sachs don’t have as rigidly delineated wardrobes as some actress-character pairings do, but that’s precisely the point—their press tour style rejects the literalism that has come to define method dressing.
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Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep at a The Devil Wears Prada 2 fan event in Mexico City.
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