Miranda Priestly will have something to say about Meryl Streep’s latest fashion.
In honor of one of the most iconic moments from The Devil Wears Prada, Streep appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert wearing a cerulean blue cable-knit sweater.
The J.Crew cashmere style is a custom version of what the brand currently sells for $198 and was created with Streep’s stylist Michaela Erlanger.
J.Crew designer Olympia Gayot said in a press release: “Meryl made cerulean a cultural theme, so the bar was high. That monologue was so smart and funny, reminding us that what feels personal is actually part of a larger story. That’s why ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ still resonates today.”
“At J.Crew, we’ve been obsessed with color since 1983, so stepping into Cerulean, Cerulean with Michaela was both an honor and a wink,” she added.
When asked about the style, Streep casually told Colbert that it was “Annie Hathaway’s,” noting that her co-star wore a similar style in one of her first meetings with her on-screen character, and the host repeating a line from the original 2006 film.
Regarding the “lumpy blue sweater” that Hathaway wears in the original, Streep says Priestley says, “What you don’t know is that that sweater isn’t just blue, it’s not turquoise, it’s not lapis, it’s actually cerulean.”
After explaining how the trend from 2002’s Oscar de la Renta spilled over into the “tragic casual corner that[she]definitely picked out of an empty box,” she said one of the most repeated lines in the movie.
“That blue represents millions of dollars and countless hours of work. It’s kind of funny to think that the people in this room have chosen to be exempt from the fashion industry when, in fact, they’re wearing sweaters that they picked out for themselves out of a pile of ‘stuff.’
The press tour for The Devil Wears Prada 2 has only just begun, but this is the second nod to a color that’s already seared into everyone’s minds.
On Sunday, Ashley Afriyi, who works with Hathaway and Streep’s styling team, also took to Instagram to share a photo of the former wearing a hooded sweatshirt with Pantone tips in a bright blue cerulean color. It was written as “Ceruleo” which means cerulean in Italian.
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Streep said, “The first movie was very unknown,” adding that “fashion brands were initially hesitant to come on board and lend clothes.”
The sequel clearly doesn’t have similar issues.
