“If you go back to when I was a young man growing up in England and getting my first job, it was considered great if you could get 90,000 readers in a monthly magazine,” Winter told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in April 2019. “I think we now have 22 million followers on US Vogue Instagram alone. So we reach men and women all over the world… in so many different ways (and) in ways that were unimaginable 10, 15 years ago.”
She currently has 51.5 million followers, and she told the FT that her job since 2020 has been to “make everyone (in every edition of Vogue around the world) feel like it’s a different day and that we’re all working together as a global network.”
But Winter, 76 years old (as of Nov. 3), is closer to the end of his term than the beginning. Coddington, who Winter called “the heart and soul of the magazine,” stepped down in 2016 after serving as creative director for 28 years.
In 2020, Wintour added publisher Condé Nast’s global chief content officer to his list of titles, which also included the company’s artistic director since 2013. She announced in June that she would step down as editor-in-chief of Vogue but would continue as global editorial director. Chloe Malle has been selected as her successor, with the title of head of editorial content.
