September 3, 2025

"The new job is not quite the same role that has made Wintour one of the most recognisable women in the world with her signature blow-dried bob and sunglasses and just-as-famous froideur."

"Instead, the title is 'head of editorial content, US'.... Over three decades, Wintour has transformed fashion from a mainly trade-facing industry to a billion-dollar celebrity and pop culture vehicle.She has turned Vogue from a monthly print magazine into an omnichannel digital brand.... 'Anna is basically the CEO of fashion and this new job isn’t that,' says a fashion veteran who did not want to be named. 'As we’ve seen at the other editions, these heads of content aren’t mini editors-in-chief — they’re quite muted figures. This person might be seen as ‘the new Anna’ from the outside, but Anna is still very much in control.'...There are those who say that, rather than marking a new era, this job indicates the end of one. As one industry stalwart puts it: 'This is very much an assistant position. Vogue dies with Anna.'"

From "Chloe Malle steps into Anna Wintour’s shoes at US Vogue/The fashion doyenne has stepped back from the day-to-day US Vogue editorship. Chloe Malle, the daughter of Candice Bergen and Louis Malle, has been confirmed as her replacement" (London Times).

The headline on the home page of The Times calls Chloe Malle "the daughter of Hollywood Royalty." Imagine having such parents! But I'd like also to see "the granddaughter of Hollywood Royalty," so I went looking and found "She’s No Dummy: Chloe Malle, Daughter of Candice Bergen, Granddaughter of Edgar, New Editor of Vogue Magazine" (Showbiz 411). It would be wonderful to have a grandfather who was a comic puppeteer, but Edgar died 7 years before Chloe was born. 

Or maybe it wouldn't have been wonderful. From the Wikipedia article on Edgar Bergen: "The dummy 'dominated' her childhood, [Candice Bergen wrote in her memoir], and even had his own bedroom in their house. 'Those were unique circumstances to grow up in,' she wrote. 'Sometimes I have to give myself credit for being a functional human being. I knew my father loved me, but with his Swedish reserve, it wasn't his nature to tell me.'"

Imagine being jealous of a puppet! That reminds me, the Criterion Channel is now featuring the movie "The Beaver," with Mel Gibson and a beaver puppet. Jodie Foster is jealous of the puppet:

16 comments:

Ampersand said...

Hollywood Royalty is one of those BS phrases intended to disguise one's uselessness.

Disparity of Cult said...

Not much aura or resemblance to her mother or maternal grandmother. Regression to the mean hits every branch hard.

rehajm said...

That’s the best story I’ve read in a while. Somebody let some journalism slip in…

The unnamed are also correct- she’s Steve Jobs-like irreplaceable. There will be something else but it won’t be what was…

RideSpaceMountain said...

"Hollywood royalty" is the lowest caste in the onlyfans empire.

Mr. Forward said...

“…Anna is still very much in control.” This is very much a dummy position.

The Vault Dweller said...

Murphy Brown wasn't that big.

Wince said...

I love it when Althouse does “The Weave.”

jaydub said...

It's still going to be Vogue, which is leftist trash.

Ann Althouse said...

"I love it when Althouse does “The Weave.”"

Unlike Trump, I don't return to the original topic. I just publish and wait for another new post to happen.

Jamie said...

I'd never heard of this movie but... to my great surprise, I think I want to watch it!

Howard said...

Chloe always sounds like a scientific term for some lady bits. That said, Candice Bergen was at peak hotness in the Sand Pebbles.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

The "puppets" tag is so LOL worthy.

baghdadbob said...

Let's see if the new editor dares to put the most beautiful First Lady in history on the Vogue cover. None of the other "fashion" rags will. If Vogue does, I predict it will be the single largest selling issue ever.

Achilles said...

Hollywood is a terrible place full of terrible people.

Movies are going to get much better over the next decade. More and more people will have tools to create and there will be an explosion of creativity.

Most of the movies will be garbage because AI still reflects the talent level of its prompter.

But there will be some that are good. I am looking forward to the rewrite of the Star Wars series by fans.

rehajm said...

…used to be if you didn’t get to Al Forno before they open you end up waiting for a table in and around the foyer for a long time. There’s usually people from Brown waiting, too. People from Brown are weird…

FormerLawClerk said...

If you were married to Jodie Foster, you'd also be on the lookout for some new beaver.

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