Vogue's Next Queen Bee

Chloe Malle Image: @chloemalle

The House of Vogue is passing the crown.

Finally. After decades of striking fear into designers, assistants, and anyone foolish enough to wear last season’s Prada, Dame Anna has finally (forcibly?) lost her grip on the magazine. And (its reported) the chosen with the front row seat is Chloe Malle, daughter of Hollywood royalty Candice Bergen and French cinema legend Louis Malle. And why not.

Chloe’s résumé is not without merit. Brown University. A stint at The New York Observer. Freelance bylines for The Times, The Journal, Town & Country—the usual baptism by Condé Nast fire. She joined Vogue in 2011 as Social Editor, which basically meant reporting on the weddings, galas, and yacht parties you weren’t invited to. Since then, she’s worked her way up to contributing editor and now editor of Vogue.com. Her mother, Candice Bergen, is America’s sitcom aristocracy (Murphy Brown) and Louis Malle, her father, gave us French New Wave cinema with a side of gravitas.

The timing couldn’t be more delicious. The fashion industry is wobbling on its stilettos…retail is shaky, Vogue is now thinner than a sample-size model, and the Met Gala is starting to feel like prom night at a Kardashian compound. Vogue needs fresh blood. Enter Chloe. She’s younger, breezier, less terrifying than Anna and she is known to smile.

Chloe easily knows her way around a footnote and a champagne coupe. She’s smart, stylish, and plugged in, all qualities that matter when you’re about to inherit fashion’s crankiest kingdom. Whether she drives Vogue into a fresh new era or just valet parks it next to the other Conde vehicles, remains to be seen. We wish her well. Just when the September issue drops!