Influential style icon Anna Wintour is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Vogue’s US edition after 37 years of running the fashion world with her trailblazing vision and icy perfectionism, a source close to the magazine’s owner Condé Nast told The Post Thursday
The sunglasses-and-bob-sporting industry powerhouse announced she’s seeking a new “head of editorial content” for American Vogue during a staff meeting Thursday morning, according to a company spokesperson.
Wintour, 75 — who has a reputation for being cold, controlling and intimidating — will retain some of her power at the publication by hanging onto two key positions, the spokesperson said.
She’ll remain as Condé Nast’s global chief content officer and Vogue’s global editorial director, with the magazine’s new editor-in-chief reporting directly to her.
“When 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,” Wintour, the Briton who took the helm of US Vogue in 1988, told the magazine in a staff meeting Thursday.
“Now, 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,” she said.
But the tastemaker — who inspired the diabolically shrewd fashion magazine editor played by Meryl Streep in the film “The Devil Wears Prada” — made it clear she’s not hanging up her hat at the esteemed fashion bible.
“[I’ll 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,” she said.
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