Wintour steps aside as the editor-in-chief of US Vogue

Anna Wintour has stepped down as Vogue’s editor-in-chief after leading the publication for 37 years.

- BRITTANY MILLER, KEVIN E G PERRY

The 75-year-old will remain as Condé Nast’s global chief content officer and Vogue’s global editorial director, and will lead the search for her successor.

The Daily Front Row reports that Wintour informed Vogue staff of her decision during an editorial meeting on Wednesday morning.

Wintour is one of the most powerful and influential figures in contemporary fashion, and her leadership helped Vogue cement its position as a “fashion bible”.

Born in London in 1949, she got her first taste of the fashion industry at 15 when she started working at the influential 1960s boutique Biba, and for Oz. She moved to New York in the early 1970s and worked her first journalistic experience at the underground magazine Harper’s Bazaar and New York magazine as a fashion editor.