Meryl Streep, who appeared on the cover of Vogue alongside editor Anna Wintour ahead of the release of The Devil Wears Prada 2, addressed first lady Melania Trump’s fashion choices during the interview.
In the conversation, moderated by Greta Gerwig, Streep discussed the fact that Melania Trump wore a jacket that read: “I really don’t care, do u?” during a June 2018 trip in which the first lady visited migrant children who had been detained.
“Every outfit is about expressing yourself, but we are also subject to larger historical and political sweeps of expectation,” Streep said in the interview about Melania’s controversial clothing choice at the time.
At the time, Trump said the coat was “a kind of message, yes,” but that it was obvious that “I didn’t wear the jacket for the children.” “I wore the jacket to and from the plane. It was for the people and the left-wing media that are criticizing me. I want to show them that I don’t care. You can criticize whatever you want to say. But that’s not going to stop me from doing what I feel is right,” she argued to ABC News.
Streep, however, shared a different view on the subject of women’s fashion in a broader sense. “I’m surprised by the way women in power have to have their arms [bare] on television, while men are covered in shirts and ties or a suit. There is an apology built into women. They have to show their smallness,” the actress argued.
“It’s compensatory: the advances of women in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of this one have been destabilizing. It’s as if women have to say: ‘I am small. I can’t walk in these shoes. I can’t run. I am uncovered, not [being] threatening,’” Streep analyzed.
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