Vogue’s Wintour taps successor to lead editorial at the iconic magazine

Chloe Malle, who has been with the mag for much than a decade, volition instrumentality the apical job.

Vogue has named Chloe Malle arsenic its caller caput of editorial content, taking implicit from Anna Wintour, who is stepping down aft astir 4 decades.

The 134-year-old mag announced the assignment connected Tuesday.

Wintour, 75, remains main contented serviceman for Conde Nast and planetary editorial manager of American Vogue and its 27 editions astir the globe. She volition besides proceed to service arsenic the main contented serviceman astatine Conde Nast, the iconic brand’s genitor company that besides owns storied brands including Vanity Fair and GQ, and volition absorption connected large events similar the Met Gala.

Malle, exertion of Vogue.com, whitethorn beryllium stepping into Wintour’s low-heeled slingbacks, but she volition study to the archetypal wearer portion taking implicit day-to-day operations astatine the US edition. And gone is the storied “editor-in-chief” rubric that Wintour held for astir 40 years.

Malle, 39, has spent much than a decennary astatine Vogue, astir precocious arsenic exertion of Vogue.com and co-host of the Vogue podcast, The Run-Through.

The girl of histrion Candice Bergen and filmmaker Louis Malle, she joined Vogue arsenic societal exertion successful 2011, moved connected to contributing exertion successful 2016 and has held her existent presumption since 2023. She has overseen high-profile features, including 1 of erstwhile US President Joe Biden’s granddaughter Naomi Biden’s prewedding sprout and an interrogation with Lauren Sanchez, past fiancee and present woman of Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos.

The quality that Malle got the occupation comes successful the run-up to the latest circular of shows astatine New York Fashion Week, starting adjacent week, and amid the Venice Film Festival, which includes a caller documentary astir her father. Her assignment is effectual immediately.

“Chloe has proven often that she tin find the equilibrium betwixt American Vogue’s long, singular past and its aboriginal connected the beforehand lines of the new,” Wintour said successful the connection connected Malle’s appointment.

Under Malle’s leadership, nonstop postulation to Vogue.com doubled, and the tract saw double-digit maturation crossed each cardinal metrics, according to the connection connected her caller job. Site postulation present consistently reaches 14.5 cardinal unsocial visitors monthly.

Risk-taker

Wintour has shaped US Vogue’s dependable since 1988, and turned the Met Gala from an elite New York fundraiser into an internationally watched taste spectacle.

Almost synonymous with the Vogue brand, Wintour is besides wide considered an inspiration for “Miranda Priestly”, the manner exertion portrayed by histrion Meryl Streep successful The Devil Wears Prada movie.

Vogue was founded arsenic a nine diary 134 years ago. After Conde Nast acquired it successful 1909, it became a accepted manufacture mainstay with models connected the cover, static close-up photography done successful studios and a absorption connected precocious manner and dense makeup.

Wintour, a risk-taker who took implicit the rubric successful 1988, saw the wide entreaty successful a broader approach. She expanded planetary editions, elevated fashion’s connections to popular civilization and began putting celebrities, athletes, euphony stars and politicians connected the covers. Wintour went for a high-low attack to manner and favoured storytelling successful photoshoots done outdoors.