Anna Wintour, 75, announced in June that she was stepping down as editor-in-chief of the glossy title US Vogue after 37 years.
Three months later, Chloe Malle, the 39-year-old Vogue staffer, was announced as the woman to take over as US Vogue’s head of editorial content.
On Saturday the daughter of Candice Bergen hit the Khaite fashion show in New York City.
The young editor proved that glam was not high on her list as she went almost makeup free with her hair back.
And the wordsmith wore a simple black tank top as she flashed unpolished nails and held on to her cell phone.
Anna Wintour , 75, announced in June that she was stepping down as editor-in-chief of the glossy title US Vogue after 37 years. Three months later, Chloe Malle, the 39-year-old Vogue staffer, was announced as the woman to take over as US Vogue’s head of editorial content
On Saturday the daughter of Candice Bergen hit a fashion show in New York City . The young editor proved that glam was not high on her list as she went almost makeup free with her hair back. And the wordsmith wore a simple black tank top
Malle does have a proven track record of commercial success, having doubled traffic to vogue.com since becoming editor of the online platform in 2023.
In her new role, she will lead the creative and editorial direction of the title, while still reporting to Wintour, who remains chief content officer of Conde Nast and global editorial director of Vogue.
Since joining the magazine in 2011, Malle has co-hosted Vogue’s weekly fashion and culture podcast, strengthened its newsletters and expanded its wedding coverage, as well as launching viral hits such as Dogue, a tongue-in-cheek fashion magazine for dogs.
A Wintour protégé, Malle has been tipped as favorite since coordinating Vogue’s coverage of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s marriage to Lauren Sanchez in June, as well as being hand-picked to write an exclusive interview with Sanchez.
Which isn’t bad going for a woman who, in a 2014 interview, admitted that ‘fashion is not one of my main interests in life.’
Wintour (above) was always chic with blown out hair and designer duds
Malle’s mother Candice Bergen (above, left) is an actor who played the fictitious editor of American Vogue in Sex And The City
Paradoxically, this may prove to be a strength.
A graduate of Brown University who lives in New York City with her financial analyst husband, two children and a dog, Malle is said to be as happy building Lego as sitting on the front row.
She is also regarded by colleagues as far more approachable than her mentor and therefore unlikely to adopt Wintour’s habit of wearing Chanel sunglasses 24/7.
It’s perhaps significant that in Malle’s first official photograph for Vogue, she was pictured wearing jeans and a casual pink and yellow $645 (£482) Dries Van Noten shirt.
But while the new ‘devil’ might not wear Prada, her lineage has led envious critics to claim that Malle has been handed her role on a silver platter.
Her late father is French film director Louis Malle, while her mother is American actress Candice Bergen.
Bergen, 79, has appeared twice on the cover of Vogue – in May 1967 and February 1969 – as well as notching up 104 mentions in fashion and lifestyle spreads over the years.
Mindy Kaling was seen arriving at he Khaite fashion show during New York Fashion Week on September 13
In a curious case of life imitating art, Bergen also played the fictitious editor of American Vogue in Sex And The City, a recurring role that saw her character, Enid Frick, tell Carrie Bradshaw that ’40 is the last age a woman can be photographed in a wedding dress’.
No doubt her daughter will have more modern, inclusive views.
‘Fashion and media are both evolving at breakneck speed, and I am so thrilled, and awed, to be part of that,’ Malle said.
‘I also feel incredibly fortunate to still have Anna just down the hall as my mentor.’
A reminder, perhaps, that despite Malle’s new role, Wintour remains the real power behind the throne.
