Anna Wintour has chosen her successor at Vogue, passing the U.S. editorial reins to longtime protégé Chloe Malle. The digital editor has been officially named U.S. Editorial Director, stepping into the role that Wintour officially left in June.
Reporting directly to Wintour, Malle begins her new chapter immediately. It’s a major pop culture full-circle moment with a distinct ‘Sex & the City’ twist.
Official Statement By Wintour
GettyWintour, who has led Vogue since 1988, will continue shaping the magazine as global editorial director while also serving as Condé Nast’s chief content officer.
Praising her successor, Wintour said, “I believe that warmth, joy, experience, and keen vision are what Vogue will thrive on through the years ahead.”
The Connection to ‘Sex & the City’
For pop culture fans, there’s a fun twist to Malle’s appointment.
Her mother, acclaimed actress Candice Bergen, famously played Carrie Bradshaw’s editor at Vogue in “Sex & the City” and reprised her role as ‘Enid’ in the spinoff “And Just Like That.”
Now, Bergen’s real-life daughter is stepping into a role of her own at the iconic fashion magazine. Whoah.
Malle’s Career Path to Fashion Journalism
(Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images)Born in 1985 to Bergen and her late husband, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Louis Malle, Chloe carved her own path in media. She joined Vogue in 2011 as a social editor after contributing to the magazine for years, later transitioning into a contributing editor role in 2016. (Read more about her credentials here.)
Her bylines appear in outlets such as The New York Times, Marie Claire, The Wall Street Journal, and Architectural Digest. She also co-hosts The Run Through with Vogue podcast.
In a 2014 interview, Malle admitted she never saw herself as a fashion insider, saying, “I was hesitant when I was interviewing, because fashion is not one of my main interests in life, and I wanted to be a writer more than an editor, but I was so seduced by the Vogue machine that I couldn’t resist.”
A Proud Mother & Growing Family
Bergen has often called her daughter her greatest joy. “The birth of my daughter was the greatest event of my life,” the actress told The New York Times in 2020.
She has also said Chloe is “probably much more like her father than like me; she has his dynamism and his intellect. But she gets her sense of humor from me.”
Malle married journalist Graham Albert, and the couple are parents to two children: son Louis Albert, born in 2020, and daughter Alice, born in 2022.
Bergen proudly shares her excitement about being a grandmother, telling People she was “over-the-moon excited” for her daughter’s journey into motherhood.
Today, Chloe balances her new top role at Vogue with raising her young family, while her mother continues to celebrate her professional and personal achievements.
