Meryl Streep's dragon-lady fashion-mag editor in "The Devil Wears Prada" was widely assumed to be based on real-life Vogue editor in chief, Anna Wintour. Known by some in the industry as "Nuclear Wintour" for her frosty and regal attitude toward the peons (and peers) around her, Wintour has earned respect and fear more than love in the fashion world where she has nevertheless become a commanding presence.
In "The September Issue," a documentary by R.J. Cutler on the making of a record-breaking immense 2007 issue of Vogue (which weighed in at just more than 2 kg and 840 pages), Wintour takes off her celeb-size sunglasses to reveal the warm, fuzzy, caring person within.
Ha-ha, gotcha. The sunglasses do come off, but the Vogue honcho seems warm in the same way that Tom Cruise seems sincere — like an alien life-form trying desperately to ape human behavior.