Original title: New Vogue U.S. Head of Editorial Chloe Malle Is a “Proud Nepo Baby”
Chloe Malle, the new U.S. editorial director of Vogue, is acknowledging her ties to nepotism. On Tuesday, it was announced that Anna Wintour tapped Malle as head of editorial content for the American Vogue edition after Wintour herself stepped down from her longstanding role as editor in chief in June. Malle joined Vogue in 2011 as a social editor and was named the editor of Vogue.com in 2023. Malle spoke with The New York Times tied to the announcement of her new role on Tuesday, where she noted that she is a “proud ‘nepo baby,’” recognizing her parent’s Oscar-nominated careers in the entertainment industry. “There is no question that I have 100 percent benefited from the privilege I grew up in,” she admitted. “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.” Her mother, Candice Bergen, is an Oscar-no