Anna Wintour has reportedly handed the baton for the Vogue editor-in-chief to Chloe Malle, the daughter of actress Candice Bergen and director Louis Malle. 

Followers are claiming that Wintour’s selection of Malle reeks of nepotism, suggesting it has extra to do with Malle’s business standing somewhat than benefit. 

Wintour revealed that she was stepping down from her function as head of editorial content material for Vogue in June. 

Wintour was appointed because the journal’s editor-in-chief in 1988, and now, Malle will reportedly take over from her. As initially reported by Puck, the style icon instructed potential candidates that she was in the hunt for professionals who may preserve the model going whereas she focuses on different elements of the enterprise. 

Web page Six later confirmed that Wintour will proceed as Vogue’s international editorial director and Condé Nast’s chief content material officer. 

The 75-year-old media govt will now focus her consideration on mentoring regional leaders overseas who’ve struggled to draw advertisers and audiences. 

Some candidates who have been within the working embrace large names akin to Sara Moonves, Nicole Phelps, and Stella Bugbee, the editor of the Kinds part at The New York Occasions.

Wintour’s selection of Chloe Malle has since despatched tongues wagging on the web, suggesting that it wasn’t merited. 

One fan wrote, “Nepo child as the brand new Head of Editorial Content material at US Vogue…,” and one other fan commented, “Anna Wintour selecting Chloe Malle as the brand new Head of Editorial Content material for American Vogue may be very fitting-white, nepo, and puppet.” 

In the identical vein, one other fan wrote, “Wow, that is actually the period for nepotism, it is loopy.” But, one other added, “Anna passing down the torch to a different nepo child may be very becoming.”

One fan jokingly referenced the function Malle’s mom, Candice Bergen, performed within the fashionable present, “Intercourse and the Metropolis,” writing, “A double nepo child since her mom was the Vogue editor in chief in intercourse and the Metropolis.”  

“The nepo bullsh-t dance by no means ends,” one other person remarked.

When the announcement was made that Wintour can be stepping again from her function at Vogue, the style icon spoke in regards to the significance of regularly searching for progress as a inventive. 

“Once I grew to become the editor of Vogue, I used to be desperate to show to all who may pay attention that there was a brand new, thrilling option to think about an American style journal,” she mentioned. 

The media govt acknowledged that she has had nice pleasure “serving to the subsequent technology of impassioned editors storm the sector with their very own concepts.”

Malle has held a number of roles within the style business. She has been a social editor and a podcast host. An Ivy League-educated New Yorker, she can also be a spouse and mom of two kids. 

In response to The Impartial, Malle was “somewhat embarrassed” when Wintour first interviewed her again in 2011. She broke the cardinal rule and wore black to the assembly. “You are purported to by no means put on black. I wore black,” she recalled.

The 39-year-old editor additionally revealed that she used to hate going out, however needed to change her pursuits when she stepped into the business. Earlier than she utilized for the social editor function in 2011, she was hesitant as a result of style was not her foremost focus on the time.