Anna Wintour as Vogue Icon

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. The Devil Wears Prada 2, which opens next month, may be the most anticipated sequel of the year. After 20 years, it brings Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci back with Meryl Streep in the immortal role.

of Miranda Priestley, the fashion editor inspired by Anna Wintor, the longtime editor-in-chief of Vogue. In September of last year, Anna joined me on the program to talk about a sea change at Vogue. She was stepping away from running the flagship American Edition, and she had just named the young editor, Chloe Mal, as head of editorial content. Wintor is still a defining presence at the company as editorial director of Vogue Editions worldwide and chief content officer of Condi Nast, which publishes The New Yorker as well. I've known Anna Wintor for quite a long time, and we met that September morning in our studios at One World Trade Center.

Here I am, a lamb a lamb to the slaughter. That's exactly what's gonna happen. How about you? Okay, so Anna, we are talking on the day that Connie Nass announced that Chloe Mal is going to succeed you as editor of American Vogue.

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