Margaret Zhang to Exit Vogue China

Margaret Zhang, editor-in-chief of Vogue China, can be leaving the publication on the finish of March when her contract expires, BoF confirms. Condé Nast chief content material officer Anna Wintour shared the information with Vogue China employees in an e mail on Friday.

Zhang’s appointment to the job in February 2021 made headlines on the time: Not solely was she the youngest Vogue editor globally, she was additionally the primary influencer to be named a high editor at any version of Vogue, an indication of the truth that even Vogue couldn’t deny the facility of social media stars. She succeeded Vogue China’s founding editor Angelica Cheung, who departed in November 2020 amid a flurry of exits of worldwide Vogue editors as father or mother firm Condé Nast started to make use of a world content material technique led by Wintour, additionally the editor-in-chief of American Vogue. She was notably one of many few new appointees who was capable of retain the title of editor-in-chief; most are actually referred to as head of editorial content material.

Her departure comes simply weeks after Edward Enninful, the previous editor-in-chief of British Vogue, published his last issue of the magazine.

A successor has not but been named. Wintour confirmed in an e mail to Vogue employees {that a} search is underway.

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