Fashion edit: Meryl Streep takes swipe over Melania Trump’s style
Meryl Streep has taken a swipe at Melania Trump’s fashion choices, saying her dress sense sends a “powerful message”.
The veteran actor was speaking in a new interview with Vogue alongside the magazine’s former editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, whom Streep’s inimitable character Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada is based on.
The pair were discussing the fashion choices of a number of women in the political and public eye, namely the former First Lady Michelle Obama and the New York First Lady Rama Duwaji.
Wintour first said: “To be fair, Melania Trump also always looks like herself when she dresses,” after previously admiring the other two women.
Responding to this, Streep then said: “I have so many thoughts about this. I think the most…powerful message that our current first lady sent was in the coat that said ‘I Really Don’t Care, Do U?’ when she was going to see migrant children who were incarcerated.”
The actor was referencing the infamous incident where the First Lady visited the New Hope Children’s Shelter in McAllen, Texas, in June 2018 during Donald Trump’s first administration, wearing a jacket emblazoned with said words.
Despite initially denying the claims that it was a pointed move, the First Lady admitted in a later interview with ABC News that it was “kind of a message, yes.”
To this end, Streep continued in the new interview: “All dress is about expressing yourself, but we’re also subject to larger historical and political sweeps of expectation.”
However, she also added: “I’m stunned at how women in power have to have bare arms on television while men are covered in shirts and ties or a suit. There’s an apology built into women. They have to show their smallness.”
Streep and Wintour were conducting their conversation in promotion for the new film The Devil Wears Prada 2, which is released in cinemas on May 1st.
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