After months of hypothesis on who will exchange vogue’s most well-known editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour has introduced a brand new prime editor at Vogue — although the function isn’t fairly the identical because the golden put up Wintour held for nearly 40 years.
Chloe Malle, who at the moment serves as editor of Vogue.com, will step up as the pinnacle of editorial content material for Vogue US, the journal introduced by itself web site on Tuesday. As properly as managing the web site’s editorial course in her former function, in 2022 Malle grew to become the voice of Vogue — co-hosting the journal’s solely present podcast, “The Run-Through with Vogue,” alongside Chioma Nnadi, head of editorial content material throughout the pond for British Vogue.
After Wintour introduced in June that she was stepping down, or quite, stepping away from one in all her many duties, the extremely sought-after function — which was even the topic of a viral wager on prediction market app Polymarket — was posted publicly on LinkedIn over the summer season.
But the names reportedly within the operating had been all in Wintour’s shut orbit: Eva Chen, who’s Instagram’s director of vogue partnerships however labored carefully with Wintour for years in prime posts at Teen Vogue and Lucky; former Vogue staffer Sara Moonves, who grew to become W’s first feminine editor-in-chief; and Nicole Phelps, who at the moment leads Vogue Runway and Vogue Business in a joint world director function.
Although Wintour has stepped down because the journal’s editor-in-chief, she is going to stay on as Vogue’s world editorial director, in addition to Condé Nast’s world chief content material officer, overseeing titles equivalent to GQ, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Bon Appétit and Teen Vogue. Malle can be taking on Vogue’s day by day operations throughout print and digital, however will report on to Wintour.
“Fashion and media are both evolving at breakneck speed, and I am so thrilled — and awed — to be part of that,” mentioned Malle in Vogue’s story. “I also feel incredibly fortunate to still have Anna just down the hall as my mentor.”
“At a moment of change both within fashion and outside it, Vogue must continue to be both the standard-bearer and the boundary-pushing leader,” mentioned Wintour in an announcement on Vogue.com. “Chloe has proven often that she can find the balance between American Vogue’s long, singular history and its future on the front lines of the new. I am so excited to continue working with her, as her mentor but also as her student, while she leads us and our audiences where we’ve never been before.”
Malle, 39, first joined Vogue again in 2011 because the publication’s social editor, writing about weddings, events and “fun, fluffy things,” she told Into The Gloss in 2013. She graduated to turn into a contributing editor of the journal in 2016, and as of 2023 has been the editor of Vogue.com overseeing the publication’s digital output. She has additionally interviewed celebrities equivalent to Gigi Hadid and Greta Gerwig for print cowl tales. Recently, she launched the second version of Dogue — Vogue’s digital-only challenge devoted to celeb canines, with Sabrina Carpenter’s two pups gracing the duvet — and interviewed Lauren Sanchez for Vogue’s June cowl story, which coincided together with her lavish wedding ceremony to Jeff Bezos.
Malle studied comparative literature and writing at Brown University, and started her profession as an actual property author for the New York Observer earlier than becoming a member of Condé Nast. In the run-up to the announcement, Malle’s title was hardly ever talked about with out the added context of her well-known dad and mom: American actor Candice Bergen (of “Murphy Brown” fame, and who sarcastically performed Carrie Bradshaw’s Vogue editor in “Sex and the City”) and the late French movie director Louis Malle.
On Monday, vogue journalist Lauren Sherman first broke the news through Puck, framing Malle’s appointment as a “practical, reasonable and rational” alternative to move up the day-to-day operations of Vogue US.
“Wintour doesn’t aim to provoke. She seeks solutions, and Malle is the path of least resistance,” Sherman wrote.
According to Sherman, Wintour shared with candidates for the function that she was in search of somebody “whom she could empower to transform the brand into a live-action content machine,” whereas Wintour mentors regional editorial leaders overseas.
Vogue isn’t the one legacy media model present process large-scale change at Condé Nast. Vanity Fair employed Mark Guiducci — beforehand inventive editorial director at Vogue — in June as its world editorial director. Guiducci has already begun to make his mark on the century-old title. In a memo distributed to staff, per Variety, he outlined choices to streamline Vanity Fair’s choices to celeb and tradition, leisure and “money, politics and style,” whereas scaling again critiques and commerce protection and phasing out particular verticals.