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Model Stephanie Cavalli opened Chanel's Fall/Winter 2026/2027 women's ready-to-wear collection during Paris Fashion Week in March.
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Vanessa Friedman
NEW YORK – In April, American fashion magazine Vogue did something it had never done before, something most people thought it would probably never do: It put two 76-year-old women on its cover.
Sure, they were not just any 76-year-olds. They were American actress Meryl Streep and Vogue overseer Anna Wintour, and they were there in a meta way to discuss the mythology around movie sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2, in which Streep again plays a version of Wintour. But still, 76.
