Chloe Malle

The legendary Anna Wintour is no longer the woman running Vogue magazine. On September 2, 2025, Chloe Malle, the editor of Vogue.com who has spent much of her career at the magazine, was named head of editorial content for the U.S. magazine. The title is a new one for Vogue. The editor-in-chief moniker that Wintour held for 37 years is being retired.

Early years

Malle is the only child of American actress Candice Bergen and French director Louis Malle. Born in New York City, she grew up in Beverly Hills while her mother worked on the popular TV sitcom Murphy Brown. Louis Malle disliked Hollywood and moved back to France in the late 1980s but regularly visited his wife and daughter in California. Chloe Malle spent summers with her father in France until his death in 1995.

Malle readily admits that hers was a privileged childhood. “Proud ‘nepo baby,’ ” she told The New York Times in 2025, a reference to the idea that children of celebrities benefit from nepotism. “I will say, though, that it has always made me work much harder…to prove that I’m more than Candice Bergen’s daughter.”

After moving back to New York City with her mother as a teenager, Malle graduated from Brown University with a degree in literature. Her first job after college was writing for The New York Observer.

Much of her career at Vogue

Malle’s work has been published in a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times, but in 2011 she joined Vogue as social editor, saying in an interview that “my understanding is that Anna [Wintour] wanted someone really young.” She was 25 at the time and stayed in the role for five years before becoming a contributing editor.

She returned to Vogue full-time in 2023 to run Vogue.com, where her impact was seen through a number of initiatives, including:

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• Creating an online competition, appropriately called Dogue, to put a dog on the cover of a digital version of the magazine.
• Hiring Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy, as a political correspondent for the 2024 presidential election cycle.
• Increasing the coverage of weddings by 30 percent, including a controversial profile she wrote of Lauren Sánchez Bezos in advance of her wedding to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. (Of the criticism that Lauren Sánchez Bezos hadn’t earned the imprimatur of a Vogue cover, Malle said: “I do think there is an element of endorsement with a Vogue cover, and I do think that it is worth taking a calculated risk.”)

She may bring other—potentially controversial—changes to her new role, including adjusting the magazine’s publishing cycle from monthly to a less-frequent pace that would capitalize on specific themes or events.

Relationship with Wintour

Malle takes on the new role at 39, roughly the same age as Wintour was when she became editor in chief in 1988. Although Wintour stepped back from the lead editing role at Vogue, she continues as Vogue’s global editorial director, which makes her Malle’s boss. Both acknowledged that the arrangement is unconventional but seemed to embrace it, with Malle saying in a Vogue press release, “I also feel incredibly fortunate to still have Anna just down the hall as my mentor.”

For her part, Wintour also embraced the mentor theme, with a twist, saying: “I am so excited to continue working with her, as her mentor but also as her student, while she leads us and our audiences where we’ve never been before.”