Anna Wintour as Vogue Icon

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Vogue is almost synonymous with its longtime editor, Anna Wintour. She talks with David Remnick about choosing a successor, and wearing Prada to the première of “The Devil Wears Prada.”

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0:00.0	This is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:09.6	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.
0:13.5	The Devil Wears Prada 2, which opens next month, may be the most anticipated sequel of the year.
0:20.5	After 20 years, it brings Anne
0:22.8	Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci back with Merrill Streep in the immortal role of Miranda
0:28.2	Priestley, the fashion editor inspired by Anna Wintour, the longtime editor-in-chief of Vogue.
0:34.7	In September of last year, Anna joined me on the program to talk about a sea change at Vogue.
0:40.3	She was stepping away from running the flagship American Edition, and she had just named the
0:44.8	young editor Chloe Mal as head of editorial content.
0:48.8	Wintour is still a defining presence at the company as editorial director of Vogue Editions
0:53.9	Worldwide and chief
0:55.5	content officer of Kandinast, which publishes the New Yorker as well. I've known Anna Winter for
1:02.0	quite a long time, and we met that September morning in our studios at One World Trade Center.
1:08.9	Here I am. A lamb to the slaughter.
1:12.2	That's exactly what's going to happen.
1:14.1	How are you?
1:14.7	Good.
1:15.7	So Anna, we are talking on the day that Connie Ness announced that Chloe Mal
1:20.8	is going to succeed you as editor of American Vogue.
1:25.9	How do you feel?
1:26.9	I feel great. I love Chloe. I'm very happy for her.
1:30.4	She's going to do a brilliant job. We've worked together for well over a decade.
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