Chloe Malle has been named the brand new head of editorial for American Vogue, taking on a job Anna Wintour held for practically 40 years, the journal introduced on Tuesday.
Malle, the editor of Vogue.com and co-host of the journal’s weekly podcast “The Run-By way of,” will “lead the inventive and editorial route of the title,” the journal stated.
She joins the journal’s 10 present heads of editorial content material all over the world and can report back to Wintour.
“Style and media are each evolving at breakneck velocity, and I’m so thrilled—and awed—to be a part of that,” Malle stated in a press release. “I additionally really feel extremely lucky to nonetheless have Anna simply down the corridor as my mentor.”
It was introduced in June that Wintour was stepping down from the place, however would keep at Condé Nast. She stays chief content material officer for Condé Nast and international editorial director at Vogue.
“When it got here to hiring somebody to edit American Vogue, letting me flip my consideration extra intensely to Vogue’s multifaceted development throughout its international audiences and publications and occasions just like the Met Gala and Vogue World, I knew I had one probability to get it proper,” Wintour informed crew members on the time, in line with the journal.
Malle began working at Vogue in 2011 because the social editor and was the contributing editor from 2016 to 2023. She’s additionally been the editor of a number of books for Vogue.
“At a second of change each inside style and out of doors it, Vogue should proceed to be each the standard-bearer and the boundary-pushing chief,” Wintour stated. “Chloe has confirmed typically that she will discover the stability between American Vogue’s lengthy, singular historical past and its future on the entrance traces of the brand new.”
