Anna Wintour Embraces a New Era at Vogue

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On the morning after Labor Day, Anna Wintour, who has been the editor-in-chief of American Vogue for the past thirty-seven years, gathered her staff and, with a sense of occasion and pride, handed over the job to a sharp, funny, and independent-minded protégé named Chloe Malle. Not that Wintour was retiring: she remains the editorial director of all the Vogue editions throughout the world—there are twenty-eight of them—and the chief content officer of Condé Nast, which owns both Vogue and The New Yorker . At a time when most people cannot name the editor of a major metropolitan newspaper any more reliably than they can nam