Chloe Malle, the daughter of the celebrated actress Candice Bergen and filmmaker Louis Malle, has been promoted to take the job – ish – of Vogue departing editrix Anna Wintour effective immediately.
Malle, who has been at the Condé Nast title since 2011 and serving as editor of Vogue.com since 2023, began her introduction as the erstwhile fashion bible’s new editorial director (editor-in-chiefing is so last century) by acknowledging her status as a “proud nope baby.”
Alrighty, then.
Good for her, we wish her well. But she don’t get no points for calling out the privilege of her upbringing. Like, there’s no medal for that, but there is making space and spreading opportunity and opening doors big and wide enough, especially so that the women and gays who would have loved to be properly considered in a fit of editorial and sociocultural, I dunno, imagination can also once day shoot their shot at the top job. Because this job was for you from the moment your started crowning outta Murphy Brown.
At a time, when the orange hemorrhoid wants to whitewash, if not rewrite history kept at the Smithsonian Institution, let’s not pretend this particular young woman is doing anyone a favor by owning her birth-given shit. This was always going to happen for her.
All no one was asking – it was astute to reference her heritage, and for sure, let’s see where Vogue goes – but actually, we are all asking is for the privileged world to walk its talk, already, because it doesn’t seem like much actually has changed.
Strike a pose. You’re it. You’re always it. Now walk on that talk.
King of Cups 