Vogue has discovered a successor to Anna Wintour. The style journal introduced right now (Sept. 2) that Chloe Malle, a longtime Vogue editor identified for main the corporate’s digital initiatives, will grow to be head of editorial content material at American Vogue. Malle, the daughter of the actress Candice Bergen and a former Observer reporter, started her profession at Vogue in 2011. She is presently the editor of Vogue’s web site and co-hosts its weekly podcast, The Run‑By with Vogue.
Wintour, 75, introduced her retirement as editor-in-chief of American Vogue after a legendary 37-year run. She has stepped again right into a much less hands-on function as Vogue’s chief content material officer, overseeing Malle and the journal’s 9 different heads of editorial content material all over the world. Wintour nonetheless works from her workplace at Condé Nast’s One World Commerce Heart headquarters in New York Metropolis.
“I additionally really feel extremely lucky to nonetheless have Anna simply down the corridor as my mentor,” Malle stated in an announcement.
Malle, 39, is the daughter of Bergen and French filmmaker Louis Malle. She grew up in Los Angeles and New York and studied literature at Brown College. After faculty, she labored as a reporter at this publication (then New York Observer), masking arts, trend and superstar actual property from 2009 to 2011.
She joined Vogue in 2011 as a social editor, shortly after the journal relaunched its web site as a part of a significant digital enlargement. In a 2014 interview with the wonder web site Into the Gloss, Malle recalled her job interview with Wintour in a scene harking back to The Satan Wears Prada.
“You’re presupposed to by no means put on black. I wore black. It was in March and so chilly, so I wore black tights and these black J. Crew suede booties, which had been high quality, however had been form of falling aside. After which I wore this very boring…Diane von Furstenberg collared costume with a grey and white striped blazer,” she stated. “Apparently, there are quite a lot of issues folks know to do and not to do once they’re interviewing at Vogue, and I simply didn’t have the neighborhood of buddies or friends who had that data.”
“I contemplate myself extra of a ‘trend woman’ now, however my evolution’s been virtually by osmosis,” she stated in 2014.
However not like Andrea Sachs, Malle rose by way of the ranks on the trend Bible. She lined a variety of subjects, together with trend, politics, houses and gardens, health and beauty. She has additionally edited a number of books for Vogue. She started co-hosting The Run‑By podcast in 2022 and was appointed to guide all of Vogue’s digital content material within the fall of 2023. The corporate stated internet site visitors has doubled since Malle took over.
“I’ve spent my profession at Vogue working in roles throughout each platform—from print to digital, audio to video, occasions and social media,” stated Malle, who lives in Manhattan along with her husband, two kids and their canine, Lloyd. “I really like the title, I really like the content material we create, and I really like the editors who create it. Vogue has already formed who I’m, now I’m excited on the prospect of shaping Vogue.”
“Chloe has lengthy been one in all Vogue’s secret weapons in the case of monitoring trend,” Wintour stated in an announcement. “However she is just not so buried within the trade that she misses the world: Like one of the best designers, she understands trend’s massive image, its function shaping not simply what’s on the runway however the altering cloth of contemporary life. Though she isn’t any stranger to the glamour of pink carpets, her expertise has been for authentic pondering and arduous work.”
