Condé Nast’s Vogue magazine has appointed Chloe Malle as head of the US editorial content and successor of Anna Wintour, who led the magazine for almost four decades and raised her even more as a fashion power.
Malle’s appointment is immediate, and she will join the other ten global chiefs of Vogue’s editorial content, reporting to Wintour, the magazine said in a statement on Tuesday.
Malle, daughter of Actress Candice Bergen and French filmmaker Louis Malle, worked as a editor of Vogue.com and has worked in the magazine since 2011, having spent most of her career there. She wrote a digital cover story about the marriage of the founder of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, with Lauren Sánchez Bezos in June.
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A, but would remain as Vogue’s global editorial director and Condé Nast’s content director, a position involving supervising the editorial content of the publisher’s brands, including Wired, Vanity Fair and GQ.
Born in England, Wintour became editor-in-chief in 1988 after working in several magazines and helped revitalize Vogue, who was losing advertisers and readers to competitor Elle. She began to put more celebrities on the covers and mix luxury and popular fashion in photographic essays.
It also raised the profile of Met Gala, a charity event that collects funds for the custom institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, turning it into a major fashion event.
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Wintour also gained notoriety for being a demanding and difficult boss after his former assistant publishing the romance The devil wears a Pradawho fictionalized his time on Vogue. The book inspired a successful movie of the same name and a sequence in production, both starring actress Meryl Streep as the Wintour -based character.
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