Condé Nast has appointed Chloe Malle as head of editorial content at American Vogue, succeeding Anna Wintour who steps back from the editor role but remains chief content officer for the publisher. The 39-year-old journalist, a Vogue staffer since 2011, assumes the role effective immediately, marking a new chapter for the magazine as it dispenses with the editor-in-chief title.
Malle, previously editor of Vogue.com and co-host of the podcast The Run-Through with Vogue, will oversee editorial direction while Wintour continues as global editorial director and mentor. “Fashion and media are both evolving at breakneck speed, and I am so thrilled, and awed, to be part of that,” Malle said in a statement. Wintour added: “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.”
Malle’s appointment follows Wintour’s announcement in July that she would step back from day-to-day editing. The daughter of actress Candice Bergen and late filmmaker Louis Malle, she began her career at the New York Observer and has written for the New York Times, Marie Claire, the Wall Street Journal and Architectural Digest. A Brown University graduate, she joined Vogue’s features department 15 years ago and has worked across multiple platforms.
Notable projects under Malle include the annual Dogue (a dog fashion magazine) and a cover story on Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s Venice wedding earlier this year. Condition Nast advertised the role on LinkedIn two months ago, with names like the Duchess of Sussex, Kim Kardashian and Victoria Beckham rumoured, alongside more credible candidates. Malle’s appointment, however, was widely anticipated given her longstanding role as a Wintour insider.
