Photo Credit: Screenshot of Chloe Malle’s Instagram.
Anna Wintour has promoted longtime Editor Chloe Malle to succeed her at American Vogue. “When it came to hiring someone to edit American Vogue,” Anna said in a statement, “letting me turn my attention more intensely to Vogue’s multifaceted growth across its global audiences and publications and events like the Met Gala and Vogue World, I knew I had one chance to get it right.”
Lauren Sherman said of the move in her column at Puck: “As expected, Anna Wintour has chosen a longtime supplicant, imbued with a Hollywood pedigree and a can-do disposition, to take over American Vogue—the latest and most natural step in a never-ending succession journey.”
Lauren points out that Chloe's mother is the actress Candice Bergen, and her father is late auteur director Louis Malle. "The fashion industry will support Malle in this position, and her pedigree will add to the allure...Chloe arrives with pop culture bona fides."
What is not proven yet is if Chloe will include the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza conducted by Israel and supported by the United States in what Anna Wintour views as “pop culture,” since most of the world is against and horrified by the genocide. Much in fashion, documentaries, and take-overs of the Venice film festival are erupting, yet it goes ignored by most publications under the Condé Nast family of publications, except for the New Yorker.
Anna continued: “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. 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.”
Vogue has never taken their audiences to Gaza to experience the Israeli and United States manufactured famine there, to report on starvation or any shred of fashion squeezing out of these oppressed, suffering people to try to make a living or continue tradition. Vogue could, for instance, feature the Hirbawi Factory, the last factory in Palestine making authentic keffiyeh’s, as other publications have done years ago.
As climate activist, who is also a Palestinian activist, Greta Thurnburg recently said: "I am terrified of how people can go on with their everyday life accepting this genocide. Watching a live-stream genocide on their phones, and then pretend like nothing is happening. Palestinians have been dehumanized to such an extent that they are only spoken of in terms of numbers and U.N. Resolutions.