Chloe Malle has been named the brand new head of editorial for American Vogue, taking up a task Anna Wintour held for almost 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 means of,” will “lead the inventive and editorial course of the title,” the journal mentioned.
She joins the journal’s 10 current heads of editorial content material around the globe 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 mentioned in an announcement. “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 likelihood to get it proper,” Wintour instructed crew members on the time, in response to 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 vogue and out of doors it, Vogue should proceed to be each the standard-bearer and the boundary-pushing chief,” Wintour mentioned. “Chloe has confirmed typically that she will discover the steadiness between American Vogue’s lengthy, singular historical past and its future on the entrance traces of the brand new.”