Anna Wintour steps down as editor-in-chief of – Business News
The satan could put on Prada — however she’s no longer the queen of fashion.
Influential model icon Anna Wintour is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Vogue’s US version after 37 years of operating the fashion world together with her trailblazing imaginative and prescient and icy perfectionism, a source close to the magazine’s proprietor Condé Nast instructed The Post Thursday.
The sunglasses-and-bob-sporting industry powerhouse introduced she’s in search of a new “head of editorial content” for American Vogue during a employees assembly Thursday morning, in line with a company spokesperson.
Anna Wintour on the Met Gala on June 28, 2025. Getty Images
Wintour, 75 — who has a repute for being cold, controlling and intimidating — will retain some of her energy on the publication by hanging onto two key positions, the spokesperson mentioned.
She’ll stay as Condé Nast’s international chief content material officer and Vogue’s international editorial director, with the magazine’s new editor-in-chief reporting on to her.
“When I became the editor of Vogue, I was eager to prove to all who might listen that there was a new, exciting way to imagine an American fashion magazine,” Wintour, the Briton who took the helm of US Vogue in 1988, instructed the magazine in a employees assembly Thursday.
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“Now, I find that my greatest pleasure is helping the next generation of impassioned editors storm the field with their own ideas, supported by a new, exciting view of what a major media company can be,” she mentioned.
But the tastemaker — who impressed the diabolically shrewd fashion magazine editor performed by Meryl Streep within the movie “The Devil Wears Prada” — made it clear she’s not hanging up her hat on the esteemed fashion bible.
“[I’ll be] paying very close attention to the fashion industry and to the creative cultural force that is our extraordinary Met Ball, and charting the course of future Vogue Worlds, and any other original fearless ideas we may come up with,” she mentioned.
Nicki Minaj, Anna Wintour, and Grace Coddington at a Carolina Herrera fashion show on Sept. 12, 2011. Mike Coppola
Wintour’s repute as an ice queen exploded in 2003 with the publication of the “Devil Wears Prada” by Lauren Weisberger, which went on to grow to be a hit movie in 2006.
The story is believed to be primarily based on the writer’s nightmarish real-life expertise working as a personal assistant to the demanding Wintour.
In her function as editor-in-chief of Vogue, she was simply as cold in actual life, a former Joe Biden White House official mentioned.
Anna Wintour on the Met Gala in 2019. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP
Wintour appeared considerably ceaselessly at occasions such as state dinners and East Room ceremonies, the place she was unfriendly, the source mentioned.
“She didn’t speak to anyone and we were instructed to not approach,” the source mentioned.
“We did work with her team for the Obama-Clinton-Biden event in New York and her team had a ‘vision’ for how it would go and pushed back on everything we tried to adjust. But she’s a perfectionist and got all the people with money to show up so [it] made sense,” the source added.
Anna Wintour attends the Burberry show during London Fashion Week September 2024 on the National Theatre on September 16, 2024 in London, England. Getty Images
“[She] wouldn’t allow people to set up [cameras] and just wanted things done their way. Didn’t agree with where press was positioned,” the source mentioned.
She refused to let press be in entrance of the stage on the occasion and was, “just incredibly particular.”
But the source mentioned it was “not worth the fight by the end of it.”
Anna Wintour attends the press convention for the 2023 Met Gala celebrating “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 01, 2023 in New York City. Getty Images
The elegant London-born editrix kickstarted her profession by dropping out of ending college at 18 and becoming a member of Harper’s & Queen magazine as an assistant within the late Nineteen Sixties, later working for a collection of New York magazines.
Before incomes the title of editor-in-chief, she served as Vogue’s inventive director in 1983.
She later led British Vogue, earlier than rejoining American Vogue as the highest boss in 1988.
Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue, receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Joe Biden within the East Room of the White House on January 4, 2025 in Washington, DC. Getty Images
She got here in with a bang, stirring controversy together with her first cowl in November 1988, which featured a model sporting $50 acid-wash Guess denims – taboo on the time for high-profile fashion magazines like Vogue.
Wintour landed sturdy star energy all through the Nineteen Nineties for the entrance cowl, from Madonna, Cindy Crawford and Renee Zellweger to Oprah Winfrey and Ivan Trump, serving to the publication lean more into movie star profiles.
Wintour’s departure as editor-in-chief is the newest shakeup at Condé Nast, after Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Radhika Jones referred to as it quits in April after seven years operating the movie star information magazine.
Anna Wintour attends the 2023 GQ Global Creativity Awards at WSA on April 06, 2023 in New York City. Getty Images for GQ
It’s an sudden transfer as Wintour has long squashed rumors about her retirement from Vogue.
In February, as she was made a companion of honor during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace, Wintour mentioned: “This morning His Majesty asked me if this meant I was going to stop working and I said firmly, no. It makes me even more convinced that I have so much more to achieve.”
As chief content material officer, Wintour oversees all of Condé Nast’s international manufacturers — together with Wired, Vanity Fair, GQ, Glamour and Bon Appetit — with the exception of the New Yorker.
Anna Wintour attends The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. (Credit too long, see caption)
Her tenure is extensively regarded as a transformative one for the magazine, serving to to cement US Vogue as a main magazine within the international fashion industry.
Over the previous 4 years, the duties of her international function have significantly expanded whereas she has continued operating the day-to-day enhancing of American Vogue, a source close to the matter instructed The Post.
The addition of the US Vogue editorial function will give Wintour more time to concentrate on international markets, the source added.
