Chloe Malle isnt worried about backlash to her vision for American Vogue - Newsmakers

Last fall Chloe Malle was tapped to succeed Anna Wintour as Head of Editorial Content for American Vogue. The daughter of actress Candice Bergen and the late filmmaker Louis Malle, she started at Vogue 15 years ago in a role known as “social editor,” overseeing a weddings‑and‑parties section that once struck her as too frothy for a serious journalist.

Now, in a time when trends are accessible on your phone at any hour of the day, Malle says that she believes people still care about Vogue. Under Malle’s leadership, the magazine’s summer issue published in June focused on celebrating the 250th birthday of the United States.

In this episode of NPR’s Newsmakers video podcast, Malle sat down with Michel Martin to discuss how the Vogue of today is different from the one she read as an adolescent, why Vogue still matters and how legacy media is evolving.