{{Short description|American and French journalist (born 1985)}} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Chloe Malle | birth_name = Chloé Françoise Malle | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1985|11|08}} | birth_place = New York City, United States | education = {{plainlist| * Riverdale Country School * Brown University (BA) }} | employer = Condé Nast | title = Head of Editorial Content, ''Vogue'' | predecessor = Anna Wintour | spouse = {{marriage|Graham McGrath Albert|2015}} | children = 2 | mother = Candice Bergen | father = Louis Malle }}
'''Chloé Françoise Malle''' (born November 8, 1985) is an American and French fashion journalist and editor of American ''Vogue''.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Sherman |first=Lauren |date=September 1, 2025 |title=It's Chloe After All… |url=https://puck.news/and-the-next-editor-of-american-vogue-is/ |access-date=September 1, 2025 |website=Puck |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":32">Royant, Olivier. ''Nouveau Paris Match'' p.? - September 1, 1987 (in French) [https://books.google.com/books?id=Db1NAQAAIAAJ&q=Chloé+Malle&dq=Chloé+Malle&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwipv4qT3rmPAxUaR-sIHbNPHWo4FBDoAXoECAwQAw Interview with Louis Malle]</ref> Previously, Malle was editor of ''Vogue.com'', overseeing all digital content for the website, and host of its podcast ''The Run Through''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Condé Nast Appoints Chloe Malle Head of Editorial Content, Vogue U.S. |url=https://www.condenast.com/news/conde-nast-appoints-chloe-malle-head-of-editorial-content-vogue-u-s |website=Condé Nast |access-date=September 2, 2025}}</ref>
== Early life and education== Born Chloé Françoise Malle<ref name=":32" /> on November 8, 1985, in New York City,<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Booth |first=Jessica |date=May 24, 2024 |title=All About Candice Bergen's Daughter, Chloe Malle |url=https://people.com/all-about-candice-bergen-daughter-chloe-malle-8642925 |access-date=September 1, 2025 |website=People |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Marx |first=Linda |date=July 25, 2015 |title=Chloe Malle and Graham Albert: Yet Another Fine Romance |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/fashion/weddings/chloe-malle-and-graham-albert-yet-another-fine-romance.html#:~:text=Chloe%20Fran%C3%A7oise%20Malle,%20the%20daughter,McGrath%20Albert%20and%20Alan%20F. |access-date=September 1, 2025 |website=The New York Times |language=en}}</ref> Malle is the daughter of American model and actress Candice Bergen and French director Louis Malle.<ref name=":1" /> She has two older paternal half-siblings, Manuel and Justine, and is of Swedish descent on her mother's side.
In 1987, the family moved to Los Angeles due to Bergen's role on ''Murphy Brown''. However, Louis Malle moved to France and regularly visited Bergen and Chloe in California.<ref name=":1" /> The family returned to New York City in 2000, living on Central Park South.<ref name=":2">{{Cite magazine |last=Fair |first=Vanity |date=December 17, 2009 |title=Chloe Malle, Bright Young Thing |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/01/fanfair-chloe-malle-201001 |access-date=September 2, 2025 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}</ref> Malle attended the Riverdale Country School.<ref name=":1" />
Malle studied comparative literature and writing at Brown University, and edited a weekly newspaper at the university.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Chloe Malle, Social Editor, Vogue |url=https://intothegloss.com/2014/01/chloe-malle-social-editor-vogue/ |access-date=September 2, 2025 |website=Into The Gloss |language=en}}</ref> She also completed a study exchange at the Sorbonne University in Paris.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 13, 2025 |title=Qui est Chloe Malle, « fille de » toute désignée pour succéder à Anna Wintour chez Vogue ? |url=https://www.parismatch.com/People/qui-est-chloe-malle-fille-de-toute-designee-pour-remplacer-anna-wintour-chez-vogue-255542 |access-date=September 2, 2025 |website=Paris Match |language=fr}}</ref>
== Career == After graduating she became an intern at the ''New York Observer'' and was later given the position of real estate writer.<ref name=":3" /> She contributed to ''The New York Times''' "Style" section and completed a freelance piece for ''Vogue'', when she heard of an opening for the new position of "social editor". She did not intend to become an editor (instead to complete a master's degree in public health<ref name=":2" />) but later said "I was so seduced by the ''Vogue'' machine that I couldn't resist."<ref name=":3" /> Malle has written for various other publications such as ''Air Mail'', ''Architectural Digest'', ''Marie Claire'', ''The New York Times'', ''T: The New York Times Style Magazine'', ''Town & Country'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', and ''WSJ Magazine''.<ref name="Sim2025">{{cite news |last1=Sim |first1=Bernardo |date=September 1, 2025 |title=Meet Chloe Malle—Anna Wintour's Vogue successor |url=https://www.out.com/fashion/vogue-anna-wintour-new-editor-in-chief-chloe-malle-explained |access-date=September 2, 2025 |work=www.out.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name="travelandleisure">{{cite news |title=Chloe Malle |url=https://www.travelandleisure.com/author/chloe-malle |access-date=September 2, 2025 |work=Travel + Leisure |language=en}}</ref>
In 2022, Malle began hosting ''The Run-Through with Vogue'', a podcast "featuring the most riveting news in fashion and culture."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vogue |date=November 3, 2022 |title=Introducing Vogue's New Weekly Podcast: 'The Run-Through With Vogue' |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/the-run-through-with-vogue-trailer |access-date=September 2, 2025 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}}</ref> She hosts the podcast alongside Chioma Nnadi, ex-editor of ''Vogue.com'' and current Head of Editorial Content at ''British Vogue''.<ref name=":1" />
Malle was named Head of Editorial Content for American ''Vogue'' magazine by Anna Wintour on September 1, 2025, replacing Wintour, who had been editor-in-chief since 1988.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 2, 2025 |title=Chloe Malle to become top editor at American Vogue after Anna Wintour steps aside |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0l6lw6je7lo |access-date=September 3, 2025 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>
== Spelling variations of Chloé ==
In English-language publications, Malle's first name is written without the accent, as "Chloe". On her personal page on ''Vogue'', she uses the unaccented form.<ref name=":1" /> ''Le Monde''<ref>{{cite news |language=fr |title=Chloe Malle succède à Anna Wintour à la tête de « Vogue » aux États-Unis, promettant de « façonner » le titre |work=Le Monde |date=2025-09-03 |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/m-styles/article/2025/09/03/chloe-malle-succede-a-anna-wintour-a-la-tete-de-vogue-aux-etats-unis-promettant-de-faconner-le-titre_6638745_4497319.html |access-date=2025-10-12}}</ref> and ''Libération''<ref>{{cite web |language=fr |first=Marie |last=Ottavi |title=La Franco-Américaine Chloe Malle dans le fauteuil d'Anna Wintour à la tête de « Vogue » |url=https://www.liberation.fr/lifestyle/mode/chloe-malle-dans-le-fauteuil-danna-wintour-a-la-tete-de-vogue-20250902_KQ7Z2FDS75FCFFN4ESHLRNRBK4/ |website=Libération |access-date=2025-10-12}}</ref> are exceptions among major French publications, using the unaccented spelling "Chloe".
== Personal life == In 2015, at her family's country home near Cahors, in the southwest of France, she married Graham McGrath Albert.<ref name=":0" /> They have two children.<ref name=":1" />
== In popular culture == Malle's mother, Candice Bergen, played an editor of ''Vogue'' on ''Sex and the City''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 1, 2025 |title=Anna Wintour Names Nepo Baby, 39, as Her Vogue Successor |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/anna-wintour-names-nepo-baby-39-as-her-vogue-successor/ |access-date=September 2, 2025 |website=The Daily Beast |language=en}}</ref>
In the 2006 film ''The Devil Wears Prada'', Miranda Priestly, who is based on ''Vogue'' then-editor Anna Wintour, learns of an attempt to oust her from her position and replace her with younger French editor, Jacqueline Follet. When news broke of Malle filling Wintour's vacated ''Vogue'' position in 2025, the resemblance between the storyline and real events drew attention online.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 27, 2025 |title=Who's Replacing Anna? Plus! Edward Enninful's 72 Magazine |url=https://fashionweekdaily.com/whos-replacing-anna-wintour-plus-edward-enninfuls-72-magazine-launch-date-stuart-vevers-major-honor/ |access-date=September 2, 2025 |website=Daily Front Row |language=en}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * [https://www.vogue.com/contributor/chloe-malle Chloe Malle] at Vogue * [https://models.com/people/chloe-malle-1 Chloe Malle] at models.com
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