With the same historical gesture, two women who marked global fashion take a step to the side. On the one hand, Anna Wintour leaves her emblematic position as editor in chief of Vogue United States and Donatella Versace She says goodbye as the creative director of the house founded by her brother Gianni. The closure of these chapters redefine not only two fashion segments that interact and feed, but an aesthetic and editorial universe that dominated popular culture during the last three decades.
Iron Lady Regarding Anna Wintourat 75, and to everyone’s surprise, he announced that he resigned from his position as an editor of American Vogue after 37 years. He assumed the position in 1988, opening a new stage, as he demonstrated with that unforgettable cover of a jeans model, and forever transformed the magazine and the concept of celebrity in the publishing world. Lorena Pérez, fashion journalist and editor of the fashion bloc siteconsulted by News summarizes: “Wintour, under his way of focusing the industry, led fashion to land as a cultural and economic phenomenon, always imposing new and diverse issues. He was able to support his political party, to put the first ladies on the cover and make a culture of celebrities. From that point, an advance. He always knew how to inaugurate times.
Although Wintour leaves the title of general editor, her power will not cease at all since she will retain the positions of Global Chief Content of Condé nast and Global Editorial Director of Vogue, as well as his leadership in emblematic events such as the beneficial gala of the suit institute. On this change of roles, even with authority, Pérez adds: “The MET gala converted into an event that raises millions of dollars that keep the Institute of the Dress, but to the entire Metropolitan Museum of Art of Manhattan. And thanks to it, there is no city in the world where there is no fashion museum.” It is worth remembering that the overwhelming character of Anna Wintour He was taken to the cinema through the actress Meryl Streepwho represented her in “The devil wears fashion”. In the film, released in 2006, the power that each of his decisions in the fashion world had shows. The film raised about 326 million dollars, almost ten times its budget, and remained in history as a generational classic.
But as the world continues to turn, the company Condé nast (Edit titles such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ and The New Yorker) He already published on LinkedIn the search for the new “Head of Editorial Content” for Vogue United States. So far, the Human Resources Department acknowledged having received thousands of visits in its publication. Wintour talked about this paradigm shift and suggested that it will be the time of generational training: “Now, my greatest pleasure will be to help the next generation of editors to break into their own ideas …”.
Italian stamp. Another of the cimbronazos that resonated on the catwalks of the world was the announcement he made Donatella Versaceadvancing that she would leave her position as creative director after almost 30 years at the head of the Maison after the death of Gianni. His latest autumn/winter 2025 collection was presented with a campaign loaded with nostalgia, and brought together muses from the ’90s as Claudia Schiffer, Kate MossKristen McMenamy and Amber Valletta, and current as Anok Yai and Argentina Mica Argañaraz. In the words of Donatella, the campaign represented “friendship, loyalty and love”, celebrating “the soul of the Versace woman: her strength, spirit, attitude and heart.” Here, Pérez redouble the look: “Donatella Versace leaves her creative position and becomes an ambassador, as is Carolina Herrera of her perfume company. He will not lose her gaze in front of the house, but the collections do stop having her seal. What she is worth highlighting is that she spent more time than her brother being a creative director of Versace, the label that her brother Gianni founded.”
The closure of his era was accompanied by the announcement of the successor, Dario Vitalefrom Miu Miu, who was appointed creative director. In addition, Versace was acquired by the Prada Group for 1,250 million dollars. This designation generated a lot of outrage in the female stalls that follows the brand. Pérez reflects: “It is unfortunate, because it is still another woman who declines in fashion houses to assume a man. I do not speak it from a gender vision, but there should be more women, since the look of a woman wearing another woman is very interesting to me. And that basically today in fashion houses does not exist, because, although it seems illogical, at present all female positions are in charge of men.”
A golden era concludes. And despite Wintour and Donatella Do not retire at all, your absence will feel in everyday life already future, because your avant -garde gaze will stop marking the way. The challenge of both empires will be reinvented and not giving prestige and much less prominence.
