Vogue's Anna Wintour exits editor-in-chief post, but remains brand's global boss

Leanne Italie · The Associated Press

· Posted: Jun 26, 2025 3:21 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Anna Wintour is stepping down arsenic Vogue editor-in-chief but volition clasp editorial power implicit the storied magazine.

The longtime Vogue powerhouse told unit Thursday she's seeking a caput of editorial contented to grip much of the day-to-day operations. But she's holding connected to plentifulness of powerfulness to support her a unit astatine the mag that built her estimation successful fashion.

"And it goes without saying," she joked, "that I program to stay Vogue's tennis and theatre exertion successful perpetuity."

"Anybody successful a originative tract knows however indispensable it is ne'er to halt increasing successful one's work. When I became the exertion of Vogue, I was anxious to beryllium to each who mightiness perceive that determination was a new, breathtaking mode to ideate an American manner magazine," Wintour told staff.

"Now, I find that my top pleasance is helping the adjacent procreation of impassioned editors tempest the tract with their ain ideas, supported by a new, breathtaking presumption of what a large media institution tin be," she added.

Wintour, 75, volition stay main contented serviceman for mag publisher Condé Nast and planetary editorial manager of Vogue, a spokesperson for the institution confirmed to CBC News. 

The caller caput of editorial contented for the magazine will study straight to Wintour, Vogue said successful a connection posted to its website aboriginal Thursday.

As main contented officer, Wintour volition proceed to oversee each Condé Nast marque globally, including American Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, GQ, AD, Condé Nast Traveler, Glamour, Bon Appétit, Tatler, World of Interiors, Allure and more, with the objection of The New Yorker.

Wintour besides oversees the yearly Met Gala, fashion's biggest nighttime and a large fundraiser for the manner helping of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Four years ago, the institution changed its editorial structure, bringing unneurotic the editorial teams astir the satellite for the archetypal time.

Every marketplace wherever Condé Nast operates has a caput of editorial contented led by a planetary editorial director.

The caller relation astatine American Vogue is portion of that reorganization. The caller operation has already been rolled retired astatine different Vogue titles astir the world.

The institution volition not question an editor-in-chief to regenerate Wintour astatine American Vogue, replacing that rubric with the caller caput of editorial content. The thought is to spend Wintour much clip to thin to different titles successful her portfolio.

Wintour transformed Vogue during her decades astatine the magazine.

She was named originative manager successful 1983, served arsenic editor-in-chief of British Vogue from 1985 to 1987 past rejoined the American rubric arsenic editor-in-chief.

She modernized the mag by featuring celebrities connected its covers and mixing precocious manner with much affordable thoroughfare style.

She championed emerging designers, including Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, and broadened the brand's scope by adding caller titles astir the world.