Anna Wintour Embraces a New Era at Vogue
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. When it was announced in June that Anna Wintor would step back from her role as editor-in-chief of Vogue, the flagship U.S. edition, it wasn't one of those items that's old news in a day, speculation, analysis,
And commentary circulated all summer, but now Winter has named her successor, Chloe Mao, who's worked at the magazine since 2011. Now I'm hardly an objective observer here. Anna and I have been colleagues and friends for a very long time. Even as Chloe Mao takes over at Vogue, Anna will remain in very senior roles.
She's the editorial director of all the Vogue editions throughout the world, and she's the chief content officer of Candy Nas, which publishes The New Yorker as well. But what's unique about this particular change of the guard is that Windor is synonymous with Vogue itself. Many people these days can't name the editor of a major newspaper any more than they can name the King of Belgium, but when the camera pans to Anna Wintor in the stands at the US Open or Wimbledon, you know who that is. No Chiron necessary. Wintor was appointed Creative Director of Vogue in 1983, then editor in chief in 1988.
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