Anna Wintour Hands the Keys of Vogue U.S. to Protégé Chloe Malle

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Sep 2

The daughter of Candice Bergen and Louis Malle has been tapped to reimagine Vogue’s American edition at a pivotal crossroads.

Anna Wintour has never been one to relinquish control lightly. Since 1988, she has presided over Vogue as the most recognizable editor in the fashion world — a figure whose bob and sunglasses became shorthand for the industry itself. But in a rare pivot, Wintour has handed over the day-to-day editorial reins of Vogue U.S. to Chloe Malle, the longtime digital editor and one of her most trusted protégés.

Malle’s appointment isn’t just another promotion. It’s a generational shift inside Condé Nast’s most prized title, signaling that the future of Vogue will be driven not by glossy covers alone, but by an audience that lives across digital platforms, podcasts, streaming video, and social feeds.

Wintour framed the handoff as both continuity and reinvention. “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,” she said in a statement. “Chloe has proven often that she can find the balance between Vogue’s long, singular history and its future on the front lines of the new.”

For Malle, the job feels like destiny fulfilled. The daughter of actress Candice Bergen and filmmaker Louis Malle, she joined Vogue as a social editor in 2011 before expanding her footprint across digital platforms. Hosting The Run Through with Vogue podcast and spearheading digital content strategy positioned her as Wintour’s heir apparent — one already fluent in bridging Vogue’s 20th-century cachet with its 21st-century audience.

“I’ve spent my career at Vogue,” Malle said, “working in roles across every platform — from print to digital, audio to video, events and social media. Vogue has already shaped who I am. Now I’m excited at the prospect of shaping Vogue.”

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The transition also underscores Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch’s mandate: grow digital and video revenue while managing the inevitable decline of print. Vogue, long defined by its September issue, now thrives as much on TikTok runway snippets as on newsstand prestige.

Malle’s elevation follows another strategic shuffle earlier this year when Mark Guiducci, another Wintour protégé, was named global editorial director of Vanity Fair. Taken together, the moves suggest Wintour is actively reshaping the next era of Condé Nast’s leadership — while still holding the ultimate power as Vogue’s global editorial director and Condé Nast’s chief content officer.

For Vogue U.S., Malle’s arrival marks both continuity with Wintour’s vision and a chance for reinvention in a media landscape defined by speed, scrutiny, and seismic shifts in fashion itself. The torch has been passed — but make no mistake, Wintour still lights the flame.