David Frankel's 2006 film starring Meryl Streep as a fictionalized Anna Wintour — the defining cultural document of the fashion industry and editorial power.
Miranda Priestly as cultural archetype: Meryl Streep's performance created a defining portrait of a certain kind of powerful creative director — demanding, quietly devastating, completely certain of their own taste. The film is simultaneously a critique of fashion industry culture and an inadvertent celebration of it — the 'cerulean sweater' speech became a genuine argument about how fashion shapes culture. Wintour herself reportedly loved the film.
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