Chloe Malle’s New ‘Vogue’ Role Mirrors Mom Candice Bergen’s ‘SATC’ Character

Chloe Malle is following in her mom Candice Bergen‘s footsteps.

On Tuesday, Sept. 2, the former Vogue.com editor, 39, was announced as the magazine’s new head of editorial content after Anna Wintour stepped back as editor-in-chief on June 26. Industry news site Puck first reported that Wintour would be naming Malle as her successor on Sept. 1.

Malle, who is the daughter of Bergen and late French film director Louis Malle, began her tenure at Vogue in 2011 as a social editor. After five years in the role, the journalist switched to a contributing editor position at Vogue. She has served as a contributing editor since 2016 and moved up to editor for Vogue.com in 2023.

As head of editorial content, Malle will control daily operations at Vogue. The position holds personal significance for Malle, given Bergen’s memorable guest role as Enid Frick, the fictional editor-in-chief of Vogue, in seasons 4, 5 and 6 of Sex and the City. She reprised the character in season 2 of And Just Like That…

Malle opened up to The New York Times about her promotion, including how her parents played a role in where she is today, saying she is a “proud ‘nepo baby.’ ”

“There is no question that I have 100 percent benefited from the privilege I grew up in,” she said. “It’s delusional to say otherwise. I will say, though, that it has always made me work much harder. It has been a goal for a lot of my life to prove that I’m more than Candice Bergen’s daughter, or someone who grew up in Beverly Hills.”

In Vogue‘s announcement, Malle said that Wintour, 75, would still act as her mentor.

“Fashion and media are both evolving at breakneck speed, and I am so thrilled — and awed — to be part of that,” she said. “I also feel incredibly fortunate to still have Anna just down the hall as my mentor.”

Malle also shared: “I’ve spent my career at Vogue working in roles across every platform — from print to digital, audio to video, events and social media. I love the title, I love the content we create, and I love the editors who create it. Vogue has already shaped who I am, now I’m excited at the prospect of shaping Vogue.”

Reflecting on her choice for a successor at Vogue, Wintour said she had “one chance to get it right.”

“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,” the former editor-in-chief shared, per the announcement. “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 … while she leads us and our audiences where we’ve never been before.”

On June 26, Wintour revealed that she would be stepping back from her editor-in-chief role at American Vogue after holding the position for 37 years. Reporting from The Daily Front Row, WWD and Business of Fashion at the time confirmed that Wintour would continue at Condé Nast as the company’s global chief content officer and global editorial director at Vogue.

“When I became the editor of Vogue, I was eager to prove to all who might listen that there was a new, exciting way to imagine an American fashion magazine,” Wintour told Vogue. “Now, I find that my greatest pleasure is helping the next generation of impassioned editors storm the field with their own ideas … that is exactly the kind of person we need to now look for to be HOEC for US Vogue.”