Wintour will quit the role after closing the all-important September issue this summer.<\/strong> Although the rumours have been denied by publishing house Cond\u00e9 Nast, Page 6 has a history of getting its stories right.<\/p>\nRumours gained traction following the passing of the head of the Cond\u00e9 Nast empire,\u00a0Si Newhouse, last autumn. Wintour had been very much Si's proteg\u00e9e and he was known for allowing his editors to have creative and budgetary freedom.<\/p>\n
Si Newhouse's cousin\u00a0Jonathan Newhouse, who is currently based in London and who is chairman and chief executive of Cond\u00e9 Nast International, is said to be less indulgent of Wintour's spending and sceptical about her increasing influence at the company<\/strong>; in 2013 she was appointed artistic director of the entire group along with her role as editor in chief of Vogue<\/em>.<\/p>\nNewhouse, along with new British Vogue<\/em> editor, Edward Enninful were rumoured to be irked when Wintour took a seat next to the Queen at the recent London Fashion Week<\/strong> show of rising fashion star Richard Quinn, who was receiving an award from the monarch. Word has it the pair were kept in the dark about the Queen's planned attendance at the event (to be fair those in the know were all subject to non-disclosure agreements) and therefore did not attend, even though it may have been considered more appropriate for British Vogue<\/em> to be represented at such a prestigious event on its home turf.<\/p>\nThe Queen sits front row at London Fashion Week with Anna Wintour<\/p><\/div>\n
Interestingly Enninful, who took over from British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman who stood down last year after 25 years in the role, has been tipped as a potential successor for Wintour. A known favourite of Newhouse and his wife Ronnie, Enninful worked for Anna Wintour at US Vogue<\/em> for a number of years.<\/strong> His short tenure at the British edition wouldn't necessarily rule him out for a move, Wintour herself edited British Vogue<\/em> for a brief tenure (but long enough for her to earn her lifelong nickname \"Nuclear Wintour\") before returning to New York and eventually landing the role she had always wanted, editor of the world-renowned US version.<\/p>\nWhether her imminent departure is true or not, news that Wintour, who is now 68 years old, is considering her future don't seem too far-fetched. Cond\u00e9 Nast has also been obliged to make some tough decisions in recent years as the publishing industry undergoes a structural shift, including the closure of Style.com<\/strong>, which it had relaunched as an e-commerce proposition, and the closing of the print editions of prominent brands such as Teen Vogue<\/em> and British Glamour<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":128081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10497],"tags":[10075,9890,10442,27,9891,12753,9702],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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