Chloe Malle has been named the new head of editorial for American Vogue, taking over a role Anna Wintour held for nearly 40 years, the magazine announced on Tuesday.
Malle, the editor of Vogue.com and co-host of the magazine’s weekly podcast “The Run-Through,” will “lead the creative and editorial direction of the title,” the magazine said.
She joins the magazine’s 10 existing heads of editorial content around the world and will report to Wintour.
“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. “I also feel incredibly fortunate to still have Anna just down the hall as my mentor.”
It was announced in June that Wintour was stepping down from the position, but would stay at Condé Nast. She remains chief content officer for Condé Nast and global editorial director at Vogue.
“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 told team members at the time, according to the magazine.
Malle started working at Vogue in 2011 as the social editor and was the contributing editor from 2016 to 2023. She’s also been the editor of several books for Vogue.
“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,” Wintour said. “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.”
