The devil may wear Prada \u2014 but she\u2019s no longer the queen of fashion.<\/p>\n
Influential style icon Anna Wintour is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Vogue\u2019s US edition after 37 years of running the fashion world with her trailblazing vision and icy perfectionism, a source close to the magazine\u2019s owner Cond\u00e9 Nast told The Post Thursday.<\/p>\n
The sunglasses-and-bob-sporting industry powerhouse announced she\u2019s seeking a new \u201chead of editorial content\u201d for American Vogue during a staff meeting Thursday morning, according to a company spokesperson.<\/p>\n
Anna Wintour at the Met Gala on June 28, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Wintour, 75 \u2014 who has a reputation<\/a> for being cold, controlling and intimidating \u2014 will retain some of her power at the publication by hanging onto two key positions, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n She\u2019ll remain as Cond\u00e9 Nast\u2019s global chief content officer and Vogue\u2019s global editorial director, with the magazine\u2019s new editor-in-chief reporting directly to her.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen 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,\u201d Wintour, the Briton who took the helm of US Vogue in 1988, told the magazine in a staff meeting Thursday.<\/p>\n Getty Images<\/p>\n \u201cNow, I find that my greatest pleasure is helping the next generation of impassioned editors storm the field with their own ideas, supported by a new, exciting view of what a major media company can be,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n But the tastemaker \u2014 who inspired the diabolically shrewd fashion magazine editor played by Meryl Streep in the film \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada\u201d<\/a> \u2014 made it clear she\u2019s not hanging up her hat at the esteemed fashion bible.<\/p>\n \u201c[I\u2019ll be] paying very close attention to the fashion industry and to the creative cultural force that is our extraordinary Met Ball, and charting the course of future Vogue Worlds, and any other original fearless ideas we may come up with,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Nicki Minaj, Anna Wintour, and Grace Coddington at a Carolina Herrera fashion show on Sept. 12, 2011. Mike Coppola<\/p>\n Wintour\u2019s reputation as an ice queen<\/a> exploded in 2003 with the publication of the \u201cDevil Wears Prada\u201d by Lauren Weisberger, which went on to become a hit film in 2006.<\/p>\n The story is believed to be based on the author\u2019s nightmarish real-life experience working as a personal assistant to the demanding Wintour.<\/p>\n In her role as editor-in-chief of Vogue, she was just as cold in real life, a former Joe Biden White House official said.<\/p>\n Anna Wintour at the Met Gala in 2019. Charles Sykes\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n Wintour appeared somewhat frequently at events such as state dinners and East Room ceremonies, where she was unfriendly, the source said.<\/p>\n \u201cShe didn\u2019t speak to anyone and we were instructed to not approach,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe did work with her team for the Obama-Clinton-Biden event in New York and her team had a \u2018vision\u2019 for how it would go and pushed back on everything we tried to adjust. But she\u2019s a perfectionist and got all the people with money to show up so [it] made sense,\u201d the source added.<\/p>\n Anna Wintour attends the Burberry show during London Fashion Week September 2024 at the National Theatre on September 16, 2024 in London, England. Getty Images<\/p>\n \u201c[She] wouldn\u2019t allow people to set up [cameras] and just wanted things done their way. Didn\u2019t agree with where press was positioned,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n She refused to let press be in front of the stage at the event and was, \u201cjust incredibly particular.\u201d<\/p>\n But the source said it was \u201cnot worth the fight by the end of it.\u201d<\/p>\n Anna Wintour attends the press conference for the 2023 Met Gala celebrating \u201cKarl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty\u201d at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 01, 2023 in New York City. Getty Images<\/p>\n