Condé Nast has named Chloe Malle to be the debut Head of Editorial Content at American Vogue, taking over many of the functions previously handled by Anna Wintour.
Chloe Malle, newly appointed head of editorial content at American Vogue, photographed at Condé Nast’s New York headquarters. – Vogue
In this new position, Malle, who is currently the editor of Vogue.com and co-host of The Run-Through, Vogue’s weekly fashion and culture podcast, will lead the creative and editorial direction of the title and join Vogue’s existing 10 Heads of Editorial Content around the world, reporting to Wintour.
“Fashion and media are both evolving at breakneck speed, and I am so thrilled—and awed—to be part of that,” said Malle in an official statement.
“I also feel incredibly fortunate to still have Anna just down the hall as my mentor,” continued Malle, 39.
Added 75-year-old Wintour: “When it came to hiring someone to edit American Vogue, letting me turn my attention more intensely to Vogue’s multifaceted growth across its global audiences and publications and events like the Met Gala and Vogue World, I knew I had one chance to get it right,” Wintour was quoted as saying in Vogue.com.
Malle becomes the latest executive in Condé Nast to be given the title Head of Editorial Content. Previously, the top individual on a Vogue masthead was known as an editor-in-chief—until a half decade ago, when Wintour gradually fired all of the seasoned editors-in-chief of international editions, replacing them with far more junior journalists on lower salaries and with the far less prestigious title of Head of Editorial Content. A slow but steady knight of the long knives that saw the editors-in-chief of French, German, Italian, Spanish and UK Vogues, among others, all dismissed, as Condé Nast struggled to overcome the dual tsunami of nose-diving magazine sales and slumping advertising revenues.
Malle starts her new position immediately. She began at Vogue in 2011 and had been considered a possible candidate for one of fashion’s plumiest jobs since she became editor of Vogue.com in 2023.
Although Wintour is not relocating far, she will continue to serve as Vogue’s global editorial director, overseeing all editions of Vogue, including the American version.
“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. Chloe has proven time and again that she can strike a balance between American Vogue’s long, singular history and its future on the front lines of the new. I am so excited to continue working with her, as her mentor but also as her student, while she leads us and our audiences where we’ve never been before,” added Wintour, who called Malle “one of Vogue’s secret weapons when it comes to tracking fashion.”
