After 37 years at the helm of Condé Nast’s flagship fashion magazine, Anna Wintour has announced that she is looking for a successor. Sensing the seismic shift that this departure will represent for the fashion world, the publisher announced on the evening of Thursday, June 27, that the “fashion pope” will continue to play a key role within the group.
With her bob haircut and dark glasses, the woman who inspired the formidable Miranda Priestly in the novel and film The Devil Wears Prada has announced that she is leaving American Vogue. She had turned the magazine into a leading cultural player, influencing trends and social debates.
Anna Wintour, 75, has decided to step down as editor-in-chief, a position she has held since 1988 at the flagship publication of Vogue.
However, the most influential woman in the fashion industry is not saying goodbye to the Vogue universe entirely: she will remain Chief Content Officer for Condé Nast and Global Editorial Director at Vogue.
As revealed in the documentary The September Issue (2009), artistic director Grace Coddington, who arrived in the same year as the Cruella of fashion, was one of the few colleagues who dared to stand up to her.
A much-discussed departure
The announcement of Anna Wintour‘s departure from Vogue USA by the woman herself took the fashion world by surprise. The news was only leaked the day after she announced it to the magazine’s internal teams, on Thursday, June 26.
After almost four decades of reigning supreme over the American fashion title, the decision of the famous but discreet British septuagenarian heralds a new era for the industry.
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