Anna Wintour is stepping down as editor-in-chief of American Vogue after 37 years at the top of the monthly fashion magazine.
Wintour told staffers of the change in a meeting Wednesday, June 25, NBC News confirmed through a Vogue company spokesperson.
She will remain chief content officer for Condé Nast and global editorial director at Vogue.
Former editor-in-chief Grace Mirabella stepped down in 1988, giving way to Wintour to make sweeping changes in Vogue’s aesthetics, brand and coverage.
Israeli model Michaela Bercu was featured in Wintour’s cover at Vogue, wearing a haute couture Christian Lacroix jacket with a beaded cross and Guess jeans.
The Bercu cover, unlike anything the magazine had done, changed the brand’s history.
“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 said in a 2012 post on Vogue’s website. “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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