Renowned Vogue editor Anna Wintour has been the subject of multiple resignation rumors as of late. She, however, has no intentions of leaving the publication.
Wintour, 68, has been the editor for U.S. Vogue since 1988. She was later promoted by Condé Nast, the publishing company that owns Vogue, to serve as its artistic director. Author Lauren Weisberger penned the book The Devil Wears Prada, which later earned a movie adaptation starring Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly—a fictionalized character that's suspected to be based on Wintour.
Speculation regarding her potential departure resurfaced from a Page Six report in April. At the time, the publication reported how "a host of stunned sources" apparently confirmed Wintour would make her exit following her daughter Bee Schaffer's wedding in July. Condé Nast's chief executive Bob Sauerberg aimed to set the record straight.
"Anna Wintour is an incredibly talented and creative leader whose influence is beyond measure," Sauerberg tweeted Tuesday via the company's official account. "She is integral to the future of our company's transformation and has agreed to work with me indefinitely in her role as @voguemagazine editor-in-chief and artistic director of Condé Nast."
Suspicion around the famed editor's exit isn't a new phenomenon. Such rumors can be traced back to as early as 1999 in a report from New York Magazine. The publication discussed her potential resignation due the to media attention she received from having an affair with a married man and her former Vogue colleague aiming to best her at Harper's Bazaar.
With the digital age taking over news media, the magazine publishing world is struggling to survive. Many publications, including Nylon and Teen Vogue, have discontinued its print editions. In 2017, several top editors from prominent magazines resigned from their respective company. Graydon Carter left Vanity Fair, Nancy Gibbs ended her reign at Time, Alexandra Shulman parted ways with British Vogue, Cindi Leive left Glamour and Robbie Myers reigned from Elle. This high departure rate has led many to question whether Vogue would see the fate with Wintour.
Wintour, whose highly recognizable courtesy of her signature bob cut and oversized sunglasses, is often regarded as one of the most important figures in fashion. Under her leadership, she's managed to successfully maintain the publication despite the industry's overall decline.
"I think we're living, in terms of media, in a very democratic age, but I think that we still look at everything through the lens of Vogue and through our own point of view," Wintour said of the publication to WWD in 2017. "In the fact that Vogue is someone that can help guide enormous audiences through this fascinating world, I would like to think we are as influential and actually are now reaching so many more people than we ever dreamt of back in the Fifties or the Sixties."
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