Vogue has named Chloe Malle as head of editorial content, succeeding Anna Wintour after nearly four decades in the role.
American Vogue has appointed Chloe Malle as its new head of editorial content, succeeding the legendary Anna Wintour, who is stepping down from the role after nearly four decades at the helm of the fashion magazine.
Wintour, 75, who has shaped American Vogue since 1988, will step aside from the US editorial role to concentrate on Condé Nast’s global expansion and signature cultural events like the Met Gala. She will remain as Vogue’s global editorial director and chief content officer at Condé Nast, the publishing powerhouse behind Vanity Fair, GQ, and other titles.
Her decision to hand over the reins marks a rare leadership transition for Vogue, a publication she has defined for nearly forty years. In June, Wintour announced she would seek fresh leadership for the American editorial team, paving the way for Malle’s appointment.
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Malle, 39, has been part of the Vogue family for more than ten years. She most recently served as editor of Vogue and co-host of the magazine’s podcast, The Run-Through. A daughter of actress Candice Bergen and filmmaker Louis Malle, she began working full-time at Vogue in 2011 after stints at the New York Observer and as a freelance writer. During her tenure, she has overseen high-profile features such as the Naomi Biden wedding shoot and an interview with Lauren Sanchez.
Malle has risen through the ranks of the fashion Bible—from social editor to podcast host and editor of Vogue.com—and is now taking over from Wintour as the new head of editorial content for U.S. Vogue. The staffer who landed Naomi Biden’s 2022 wedding at the White House, and a Lauren Sanchez interview ahead of her nuptials to Jeff Bezos, could soon shape the fashion world.
Ivy League-educated New Yorker, the daughter of Murphy Brownstar Candice Bergen and the late French film director Louis Malle
This Ivy League-educated New Yorker — the daughter of Murphy Brownstar Candice Bergen and the late French film director Louis Malle — leads a glamorous life, according to the photos that adorn her Instagram.
She often vacations at the family home in the South of France, frequents the beaches of Montauk in the Hamptons, and enjoys fine dining in some of the hottest spots in New York.
But for Malle, a wife and mother of two, the party-girl lifestyle that is part and parcel of being a Vogue editor in the big city doesn’t come naturally.
During her interview with Wintour, the fashion mogul asked what she liked doing in her free time.
“I answered truthfully and said ‘I like to sleep and cook,’” Malle told The New York Post.
As social editor at Vogue, Malle’s role saw her forced to mingle several times a week, which was a shock to her system.
“I work on the best-dressed lists and write party coverage for Vogue.com, which is so funny because I used to hate going out,” she told beauty site Into the Gloss in 2014. “I’m such a morning person. But now that I decide what parties to cover for the website, I’m usually out three to four nights a week.”
Malle’s early childhood
Malle’s early childhood was spent in Los Angeles, where her mom relocated them from New York when Malle was only three to shoot Murphy Brown. Her father, the Academy Award-nominated director Louis Malle, lived in France because he “didn’t like living or working in Hollywood,” Bergen said in a 2015 interview with Dallas News. The director would travel between Paris and L.A. every other month to visit his wife and daughter.
“People who don’t know better think it’s a glamorous arrangement,” Bergen said in a 1993 interview with Cosmopolitan magazine. “But long-distance communication puts a strain on the marriage. That we’ve made it at all is a testament to how much we both wanted it.”
Malle, an only child, was close with her father and was 10 when he died of lymphoma in 1995.
Malle and her mom moved back to New York five years later, where she attended Riverdale High School. “I was always a big reader—I was an only child, so it was just me, my dog Lois, and my books,” Malle said.
Malle landed an internship at the New York Observer
As a teenager, dads of Malle’s friends would fawn over her mother, she told The New York Times.
“I grew up with my friends’ dads saying, ‘Oh, my God, I remember when your mom was young. She was a knockout,’” Malle said. “I think [Bergen] had great insecurity around the fact that people have always focused on that.”
She studied comparative literature and writing at Brown University. “When I graduated, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do,” Malle said. “I was always interested in writing—I edited the weekly paper at Brown and loved that.”
After briefly considering a career in public health, Malle landed an internship at the New York Observer and was later hired to cover real estate. From there, she became a freelance writer, filing pieces for The New York Times Style section and landing bylines in Vogue. Then her big break came in 2011 for the social editor role.
“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,” Malle said.
Malle’s boyfriend of four years, asset manager Graham Albert, proposed to her on New Year’s Day in 2014.
As her career was flourishing, so was her personal life. Malle’s boyfriend of four years, asset manager Graham Albert, proposed to her on New Year’s Day in 2014.
“He said, ‘I have a question. I think we should get married.’ And my first response was, ‘That’s not a question!’” Malle told Vogue in 2015. “I know I’m a brat, but I’m an editor—what do you want from me? Then I said, ‘Oh wow, this is happening.’ I don’t think I ever actually said ‘yes,’ there was no need.”
Malle added that Albert presented the ring from his pocket in a Kleenex. “A detail that makes my mother shudder and yell, ‘A KLEENEX!’ every time she hears it,” she joked.
The couple wed at the family’s 16th-century stone manor in Le Coual, southwestern France, in the same room her parents Bergen and Louis Malle married in 1980. It was a lavish but intimate four-day affair with just 40 guests.
“I grew up spending every summer there and the minute I turn down the driveway my heart leaps—I get so excited,” Malle said. “It’s a visceral reaction, I just love being there more than anything.”
In May 2020, Malle and Albert welcomed their first child, Louis Albert, named after Malle’s late father. They had a second child, Alice, in April 2022, according to PEOPLE.
“Mom of two is really the most time-consuming occupation at the moment, which I’m leaning into,” she told the outlet last year. “Now I’ve just decided … [to] embrace the fact that they’re going to take most of my time and my logistical mental space.”
Bergen is a doting grandmother to Malle’s children and sees her grandkids regularly, according to social media.
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