Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour Are Vogue’s May Cover Stars! | PLUS Rachel Comey Celebrates 25 Years
The Run-Through with Vogue
Vogue
4.1 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
For the first time, Anna Wintour graces Vogue's cover alongside Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep)! On the cover the two devils are wearing two pradas! On this episode of The Run-Through, Chloe invites Virginia Smith (Vogue's Director of Global Fashion Network) to breakdown how this historic cover came to be and what goes behind making a top secret cover happen. You'll also hear snippets from Greta Gerwig's cover conversation with the two women where they discuss aging, grandmotherhood, and what part of each other's job they would dread the most!
Earlier in the episode, Rachel Comey speaks to Nicole Phelps about her unconventional origin story, how she funded her early production, and the upcoming opening of her Christopher Street store. She also discusses about how she managed to stay independent and find her own audience, which has come to include writers, directors, and artists like Zadie Smith and Miranda July. On her design process, Comey says, “I really think about design as a service to the client and making sure that they're feeling the things they want to feel in the rooms that they want to go into.”As fashion increasingly catches up to the inclusive casting Comey has long practiced, she plans to keep doing things her own way.
The Run-Through with Vogue is your go-to podcast where fashion meets culture. Hosted by Chloe Malle, Head of Editorial Content, Vogue U.S.; Chioma Nnadi, Head of British Vogue; and Nicole Phelps, Director of Vogue Runway, each episode features the latest fashion news and exclusive designer and celebrity interviews.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Run Through is brought to you by eBay. |
| 0:02.9 | Hi, y'all. It's Arden Fanding Andrews, Vogue's Beauty Editor at large, and I'm back to talk about one of my favorite topics, eBay. At long last, I have become a seller. All of my years of shopping on eBay have shown me what to do now. Like, what information do I want to know? What do I want to see? I don't believe in hoarding luxury. You have to share it. |
| 0:23.1 | And that's why I'm shopping and selling on eBay. |
| 0:31.4 | This is The Run Through. I'm Chloe Malm. On today's episode, Nicole Phelps spoke with designer Rachel Comey. |
| 0:37.7 | Rachel is celebrating the brand's 25th anniversary, and I feel like she is such a New York |
| 0:43.8 | institution and icon, such a, if you know, you know, person in the fashion, New York fashion |
| 0:49.7 | community. |
| 0:50.6 | She has a new store on Christopher Street in Manhattan, and it was really fun to hear Nicole talking to her about her sort of slow burn success. |
| 1:00.3 | But before that, I am here in the pod studio with our very own Virginia Smith. |
| 1:06.9 | Virginia, can you please introduce yourself? |
| 1:08.8 | Hi, Chloe. |
| 1:09.9 | I'm Virginia Smith, and I head up the Global Fashion Network for Vogue, and happy to be here |
| 1:15.6 | today. |
| 1:16.6 | Well, Virginia and I have been working under cloak and dagger for several months on the top |
| 1:24.6 | secrets may cover of Vogue, which has been treated by one Anna Wintour, has made the Pentagon papers look like Richard Scarry books. |
| 1:36.6 | I feel like no one's going to know my busy town reference, but that's because I read children's books. |
| 1:40.4 | But anyway, this was very top secret. |
| 1:42.7 | It was very top secret. |
| 1:43.9 | I'm actually still nervous to |
| 1:45.5 | actually form the words coming out of my mouth in the next few minutes about this project because |
| 1:51.3 | I've been so paranoid that something will happen and the secret will escape. It has been a stress |
| 1:58.5 | level, as you know, Chloe, from going through most of it with me that was extremely, extremely high. But here we are. |
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