The TODAY Interview: Chloe Malle on Leading Vogue Into Its Next Era and Learning from Anna Wintour
Open Book with Jenna
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. This is Jenna Bush-Hager with a special edition of our podcast. For the last 15 years, Chloe Mal has worked her way through almost every corner of U.S. Vogue, becoming a leader that shapes how |
| 0:21.6 | millions experience fashion, culture, and storytelling. What makes her story even more remarkable |
| 0:27.1 | is she never set out to work in fashion, but step by step, story by story, she found her way |
| 0:33.3 | to the very top. Today, she sits in one of the most influential roles in media as head of |
| 0:38.9 | editorial content at Vogue, following in the footsteps of fashion legend Anna Wintour, while guiding |
| 0:45.2 | an iconic brand into its next chapter. To mark her first issue of Vogue hitting shelves, I sat down |
| 0:51.9 | with Chloe at Vogue's New York headquarters to talk about the |
| 0:54.9 | unexpected path that brought her to Vogue, the moment she got the call that changed everything, |
| 1:00.3 | and how she's leading with joy, creativity, and purpose, and a rapidly changing landscape. |
| 1:05.8 | Plus, she opens up about receiving mentorship from Anna Wintor and raising two young children while leading a high |
| 1:11.9 | pressure career. Take a listen. |
| 1:18.9 | So this is a big new job. Congratulations. Thank you very much, Jenna. How does it feel in this moment |
| 1:27.1 | for you? This exact moment feels like an exciting thing is about to happen. I have felt like I've had a couple of weeks to sort of recalibrate, which has been really nice. Fashion week now is around the corner. I'm going to be traveling a lot. We have our first issue coming out today, |
| 1:44.9 | obviously. And so it does feel like we've been working really hard, and now things are happening |
| 1:52.3 | that have been in the pipeline. Well, it's appropriate to say you've been working really hard |
| 1:57.7 | because I know people that know you well, and every single one of them |
| 2:02.6 | said, Chloe is the hardest worker. Oh, that's nice. I mean, I think if it's unanimous, |
| 2:08.7 | it must be true. And you've been here for almost your entire career. I've been on and off, |
| 2:15.3 | mostly on at Vogue for 15 years. I started the Tuesday before the Met Gala in 2011. I have done most jobs at the magazine in some capacity or worked in some area of the magazine in a lot of capacities. |
| 2:31.3 | Writer, editor, sittings editor. I've been producer on shoots, I've sort of |
| 2:38.2 | bopped around. I've obviously, I host the podcast now, which is fun. And so it feels like an |
| 2:44.6 | exciting moment to take on a new role. I was editing the website right before I took on this role. There was obviously |
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