Meryl Streep revives iconic cerulean sweater

Miranda Priestly would have something to say about Meryl Streep’s latest look.

With a nod to one of the most iconic moments in “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 one that the brand currently sells for $198, created with Streep’s stylist Micaela Erlanger.

J.Crew designer Olympia Gayot said in a press release, “Meryl made cerulean a cultural thesis, so the bar was high. That monologue is so smart and funny — it reminds you that what feels personal is actually part of a much bigger story, which is why ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ still resonates.”

“At J.Crew, we’ve been obsessed with color since 1983, so stepping into cerulean — the cerulean — with Micaela was equal parts honor and wink,” she added.

When asked about the look, Streep casually tells Colbert that it’s “Annie Hathaway’s,” referring to her co-star, who wore a similar style in one of the first meetings of their on-screen characters, with the host then repeating a line from the original 2006 movie.

Speaking about the “lumpy blue sweater” Hathaway wears in the original, Streep as Priestley says, “what you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise, it’s not lapis, it’s actually cerulean.”

After describing the trickle-down of the trend from 2002 Oscar de la Renta in to “some tragic casual corner where [she], no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin,” she delivers one of the most-repeated lines from the film.

“That blue represents millions of dollars of countless jobs, and it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you’re wearing a sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room … from a pile of ‘stuff.’”

The press tour for “The Devil Wears Prada 2” has only just begun and this is already the second nod to the color that is burned in everyone’s brains.

On Sunday, Ashley Afriyie, who has been working with Hathaway and Streep’s styling teams, also shared a photo on Instagram of the former wearing a hooded sweatshirt with a Pantone chip of the bright blue cerulean hue. It said “ ceruleo,” the Italian word for cerulean.

In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Streep shared, “The first movie was such an unknown quantity,” adding, “that fashion brands were initially hesitant to get on board and lend clothes.”

The sequel is clearly free of any similar issues.

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