NEW YORK (AP) – Anna Wintour concluded a week of fashion world speculation on Tuesday. The most powerful person in business I won’t go anywhere.
75-year-old Wintour remains Chief Content Officer at CondéNast American Vogue’s global editorial director and 27 editions from around the world. Malle, the editor of Vogue.com, may have stepped into Wintour’s low-heeled slingback, but while taking over her daily business in the US edition, she reports to the original wearer. And the famous “Editor-in-Chief” title Wintour held for almost 40 years is gone.
Mal, 39, is the daughter of actor Candice Bergen and the late French director Lewis Mal. She joined Vogue in 2011 as a social editor and moved to contributor editor in 2016, and has held her current position since 2023. She piloted all the digital content for Vogue. In June, Maru interviewed him. Lauren Sanchez was prior to her wedding at the time. To Jeff Bezos.
“Vogue is already shaping who I am. Now I’m excited about the prospect of shaping Vogue,” Malle said in the announcement.
Mar had emerged as a front runner
Since late June, when Wintour told staff he was giving up her title, a handful of names have been thrown to make her successful. Among them was Evachen, Meta’s vice president of fashion partnerships. Nicole Phelps, Global Director of Vogue Runway and Vogue Business. Sara Moonves, editor-in-chief of W Magazine.
Other names that came to mind as soon as they got up were Vogue’s fashion news director Mark Holgate, British Vogue’s editorial content Chioma Nnadi, and digital style director Leah Faye Cooper at Vogue.com. Malle and Nnadi will co-host the Vogue podcast, “The Run-Sthrough.”
News that Malle has got a job will be ahead of her latest show at New York Fashion Week starting next week, and Venice Film Festival, It includes a new documentary about her father. Her appointment is immediately effective.
A brown alumni and mother of two young children, Mal, like Wintour, speaks openly about her liberal politics.
“I actually love working with Anna because I love telling her exactly what someone needs to do and what she’s thinking about.” Mar said in his recent profile Independent. “There’s no indecisiveness. There’s no ambiguity.”
Vogue’s past and future
Vogue was founded 134 years ago as Society Journal. After Condé Nast acquired it in 1909, it became a mainstay in the traditional industry focusing on models of covers, static close-up photos taken in studios, high fashion and heavy makeup.
Risk Taker Wintour, which took over the title in 1988, saw a massive appeal with a broader approach. She expanded the international edition, increased her connection to fashion pop culture, and began to include celebrities, athletes, music stars and politicians on her cover. Wintour wanted a minimum approach to fashion and preferred storytelling during outdoor photo shoots.
Through initiatives like the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, she embraced designers who were memorable from the time, including Marc Jacobs, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. And she transformed the Met Gala from a small private fundraiser to the most important night of global events and fashion.
Considering the Fashion Bible, American Vogue has had several notable editors throughout its history. Wintoll was preceded in particular by Diana Vreeland (1963-1971) and Grace Mirabella (1971-1988).
“Chloe has often proven that she can find a balance between the long and singular history of American Vogue and the future at the new frontline,” Wintour said in a statement on Mal’s appointment. Under Malle’s leadership, direct traffic to Vogue.com has doubled, showing double digit growth across all key metrics, according to a statement on her new work. Site traffic consistently reaches 14.5 million unique visitors each month.
The retirement of the editor-in-chief’s title brings Vogue along with changes throughout the Condé Nast universe. When Radica Jones resigned as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair earlier this year, her role was replaced by the “Global Editor Director” at Mark Giducci. (Guiducci herself was tapped from Vogue and most recently served as creative editor-in-chief.) American Vogue will take part in almost any market operated by Condé Nast to head of editorial content, which he reports to the global editorial director.
Vogue has a global edition ranging from the UK and France to China and India, but Mal’s focus is on Vogue, America.
Anna Wintour’s own future
As Chief Content Officer at Condé Nast, Wintour will continue to oversee all brands including Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, GQ, AD, Condé Nast Traveler, Glamor, Bon Appétit, Tatler, Tatler, World of Interiors, Allure and more.
Wintour himself has a boss. She reports to Roger Lynch, CEO of Condé Nast.
“In fact, adding a new editing rate lead for Vogue US will allow for greater time and flexibility to support other global markets Condé Nast offers,” a statement from Vogue said in June.
“And needless to say,” Wintoll joked at the time.
She stays at the helm The annual Met Gala, Major fundraising activities For the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fashion Wing. And she will continue to participate The World of Voguea travel fashion and cultural event that the magazine began in 2022.
Wintour explained the editor-in-chief’s shift like this.
“Everyone in the creative field knows that it is never essential to stop growing in their own work. When I became the editor of Vogue, I wanted to prove to everyone who might hear there is a new and exciting way to imagine an American fashion magazine,” she told staff.
“My biggest joy right now is helping the next generation of passionate editors hit the field with their own ideas, supported by a new and exciting view of what major media companies are,” she said.
