Vogue appoints Chloe Malle to succeed Anna Wintour as US editorial head
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American Vogue has named Chloe Malle as its new head of editorial content, taking over from Anna Wintour, who is stepping down after nearly four decades, the magazine said on Tuesday.
Malle, 39, has spent more than a decade at Vogue, most recently as editor of Vogue.com and co-host of the podcast "The Run-Through".
The daughter of actress Candice Bergen and filmmaker Louis Malle, Chloe joined the magazine full-time in 2011 after the New York Observer and freelance. She has overseen high-profile features, including a Naomi Biden wedding shoot and an interview with Lauren Sanchez.
Wintour has shaped American Vogue's voice since 1988, and turned the Met Gala from an elite New York fundraiser into an internationally watched cultural spectacle.
Almost synonymous with the Vogue brand, Wintour is also widely considered an inspiration for "Miranda Priestly", the fashion editor portrayed by Meryl Streep in "The Devil Wears Prada".
Her departure marks a rare leadership change at a title she has defined for almost 40 years, a tenure marked by both admiration and controversy. In June, Wintour announced she would seek new leadership for the American Vogue editorial team.
Ever since Anna Wintour announced she would be shifting her role and giving up the title of Vogue editor in chief, speculation has swirled about who would be named the top editor of the iconic fashion magazine.
No need to speculate anymore: Chloe Malle, a 39-year-old Vogue lifer, has been named the publication's top editor. After the editor-in-chief role was sunsetted, her official title will be: head of editorial content of Vogue US. She will report to Wintour.
Here's what we know about Malle.
Almost her entire career has been at Vogue
Chloe Malle pictured in London in 2011, when she was an editor at Vogue.Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images
Other than two years at The New York Observer between 2009 and 2011, Malle has spent the vast majority of her career at Vogue, according to her LinkedIn profile.
She joined the magazine in 2011, first as social editor, where she led Vogue's wedding and social coverage. Between 2016 and 2023, she was a contributing editor and, from late 2023, editor of Vogue.com. Malle has also edited several books about Vogue.
Malle said of her appointment: "I've spent my career at Vogue, working in roles across every platform—from print to digital, audio to video, events and social media. I love the title, I love the content we create, and I love the editors who create it. Vogue has already shaped who I am, now I'm excited at the prospect of shaping Vogue."
She added, "Fashion and media are both evolving at breakneck speed, and I am so thrilled and awed to be part of that. I also feel incredibly fortunate to still have Anna just down the hall as my mentor."
At age 39, she's roughly the age Wintour was when she became the editor of Vogue
Anna Wintour and fellow Vogue fashion journalist Andre Leon Talley on January 12, 1988, in New York City.Tony Palmieri/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images
Malle and Wintour both became the top editor of Vogue at a similar age. Wintour was 38 when her first edition came out. She went on to hold the position for more than 37 years.
Malle lives in New York City with her husband and two kids.
She landed an interview with Lauren Sánchez before the Sánchez-Bezos wedding this summer
Lauren Sanchez on the weekend of her wedding to Jeff Bezos, in Venice, 2025.STEFANO RELLANDINI/AFP via Getty Images
It was the wedding of the summer, with media outlets scrambling to cover the Sánchez-Bezos wedding in Venice, attended by the who's who of celebrities and billionaires.
But Malle, who had previously interviewed Sánchez in 2023, got the inside scoop before the wedding, interviewing the bride for Vogue's June digital cover story.
Malle's mom, Candice Bergen, played Vogue's editor in chief in 'Sex and the City'
Candice Bergen and Chloe Malle at a movie screening in November 2004, around the time she played the Vogue editor in "Sex and the City."Richard Corkery/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images
Her mother, Candice Bergen, is an actor who won five Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and an Academy Award for best supporting actress.
You might recognize her from "Murphy Brown," "Miss Congeniality" or "Sex and the City." In the latter, her mom played Enid Frick, Vogue's editor in chief.
Malle's father was also famous. Louis Malle was nominated for three Academy Awards, perhaps best known for the movies "Elevator to the Gallows" and "Atlantic City." He died of lymphoma in 1995.
She's a nepo baby — and embraces it
Candice Bergen and the French movie director Louis Malle after their wedding in the small village of Lugagnac, in 1980. Malle holds the hand of his daughter, Justine.Bettmann/Getty Images
With two famous parents, Malle is sure to be leveled with nepo baby accusations. But, in an interview with The New York Times published Tuesday, she said: "There is no question that I have 100 percent benefited from the privilege I grew up in."
Malle continued: "It's delusional to say otherwise. I will say, though, that it has always made me work much harder. It has been a goal for a lot of my life to prove that I'm more than Candice Bergen's daughter, or someone who grew up in Beverly Hills."
