Anna Wintour's replacement at American Vogue is confirmed after weeks of speculation

Following weeks of speculation, Dame Anna Wintour's successor for the top job at American Vogue has been confirmed by parent company Condé Nast.

Chloe Malle will be installed as head of editorial content for Vogue US, as 75-year-old Wintour steps down as editor-in-chief after 37 years at the helm of the fashion publication.

Malle has worked her way up the ranks to become the editor of Vogue.com and hosts its podcast, The Run Through.

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The 39-year-old journalist is the daughter of actress Candice Bergen and French film director Louis Malle.

In a quirky connection to her new job, her famous mum played the Vogue editor-in-chief role throughout the Sex & The City series.

Malle will be taking over Vogue's daily operations across print and digital, but will report directly to Wintour.

"Fashion and media are both evolving at breakneck speed, and I am so thrilled — and awed — to be part of that," Malle said in the announcement, made on Vogue's website.

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"I also feel incredibly fortunate to still have Anna just down the hall as my mentor."

News of Wintour's decision was announced to staff in June, with Condé Nast later releasing a statement about the decision.

Malle quickly became the front runner for the post, with rumours swirling that she's specifically been tapped for the top job by her predecessor.

"At a moment of change both within fashion and outside it, Vogue must continue to be both the standard-bearer and the boundary-pushing leader," Wintour said in the announcement.

"Chloe has proven often that she can find the balance between American Vogue's long, singular history and its future on the front lines of the new.

"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."

Wintour will remain with the company, serving as Vogue's global chief content officer and Condé Nast's chief content officer.

It means she'll still oversee content from Wired, Vanity Fair, GQ, Architectural Digest, Condé Nast Traveller, Glamour, Bon Appétit, Allure and more.

The dame will also remain co-chair of the famous annual Met Gala, which raises funds for the the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.

Over her 30 years running the gala, Wintour has turned it into one of the biggest red carpets on the calendar, featuring the biggest names in music, movies and fashion.

Who is Chloe Malle?

Malle first joined Vogue back in 2011 as the publication's social editor, writing about weddings, parties and "fun, fluffy things", she told Into The Gloss in 2013.

She graduated to become a contributing editor of the magazine in 2016, and as of 2023 has been the editor of Vogue.com, overseeing the publication's digital output.

She has interviewed celebrities such as Gigi Hadid and Greta Gerwig for print cover stories.

Recently, she launched the second edition of Dogue — Vogue's digital-only issue dedicated to celebrity dogs, with Sabrina Carpenter's two pups gracing the cover — and interviewed Lauren Sanchez for Vogue's June cover story, which coincided with her lavish wedding to Jeff Bezos.

Malle studied comparative literature and writing at Brown University, and began her career as a real estate writer for the New York Observer before joining Condé Nast.

She's also contributed to titles including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest and WWD.

The 39-year-old lives in Manhattan with her husband Graham McGrath Albert, their two kids and their dog, Lloyd.

- Reported with CNN.

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