Anna Wintour has stepped down as Vogue’s editor-in-chief after leading the fashion publication for 37 years.
According to The Daily Front Row and WWD, Wintour, 75, told Vogue staff members on Wednesday morning. The Met Gala co-chair will still be Condé Nast’s global chief content officer and global editorial director at Vogue, as she leaves her current role as the head of editorial content.
Wintour first started her decades-long career at Vogue back in 1988, as she took over from the publication’s previous editor-in-chief, Grace Mirabella. Since taking the position and running her first cover in November 1988 — which was the first time denim was featured on the cover — she’s made large changes with both the Vogue brand and the magazine.
“It was so unlike the studied and elegant close-ups that were typical of Vogue’s covers back then, with tons of makeup and major jewelry. This one broke all the rules,” Wintour told Vogue about the cover back in 2012. “Afterwards, in the way that these things can happen, people applied all sorts of interpretations: It was about mixing high and low, Michaela was pregnant, it was a religious statement. But none of these things was true. I had just looked at that picture and sensed the winds of change. And you can’t ask for more from a cover image than that.”
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