US Vogue December 2025 : Timothée Chalamet by Annie Leibovitz

[jeremydante]

Is there any other editorial content that we can even look at that would help heal the burns on our retina's from the cover?

 

[MModa]

FUN Fact: This year's December 2025 issue has the square trim size of the March issues. Meaning, it is wider.

 

[callmejaeden]

If I understand that right then is this the first issue to be upgraded into a "luxury product/experience" that Chloe Malle was referring to a couple months back?

 

[MModa]

If I understand that right then is this the first issue to be upgraded into a "luxury product/experience" that Chloe Malle was referring to a couple months back?

Perhaps. Chloe Malle is created as Head of Editorial Content under Wintour in the masthead. However, Wintour wrote the editor's letter.

 

[Rigida]

Perhaps. Chloe Malle is created as Head of Editorial Content under Wintour in the masthead. However, Wintour wrote the editor's letter.

Any interesting contents in this issue?

 

[MModa]

Any interesting contents in this issue?

As far as the fashion editorials, there is the Matthew Blazy/Chanel article and fashion photographs by Rafael Pavarotti and a major fashion house debuts (think Dior, Loewe etc.) editorial starring models Ella McCutheon, Angelina Kendall and others by Mikael Jansson.

 

[ivano]

I'm confused. Her final issue was Nicole's or is this mess?!

 

[MModa]

I'm confused. Her final issue was Nicole's or is this mess?!

There is no word from Wintour in the December 2025 issue of US Vogue that it is her last. Chloe's first issue will be published sometime next year but when exactly it was not stated officially anywhere.

 

[jeremydante]

Perhaps. Chloe Malle is created as Head of Editorial Content under Wintour in the masthead. However, Wintour wrote the editor's letter.

I thought it was mentioned somewhere along this thread that this issue is Wintour's last. So, I would both hope and assume that the January issue will have a letter from Chloe, and no longer Anna. I think it makes sense on the calendar to set forth the new chapter at the top of the year. Can't imagine it making much sense from a publishing standpoint. Chloe, on your mark!

 

[MModa]

I thought it was mentioned somewhere along this thread that this issue is Wintour's last. So, I would both hope and assume that the January issue will have a letter from Chloe, and no longer Anna. I think it makes sense on the calendar to set forth the new chapter at the top of the year. Can't imagine it making much sense from a publishing standpoint. Chloe, on your mark!

There will be no Winter or March 2026 issues of US Vogue anymore. There will be a Special Spring Issue that will count as two as the next issue. This is stated inside the magazine.

 

[jeremydante]

There will be no Winter or March 2026 issues of US Vogue anymore. There will be a Special Spring Issue that will count as two as the next issue. This is stated inside the magazine.

Ahhhhhhhhh! So that makes sense. The new reduced frequency will start in spring.
I am actually happy they will scale it back.

 

[justaguy]

Before we know it, it will just be VQ (Vogue Quarterly).

 

[MModa]

Before we know it, it will just be VQ (Vogue Quarterly).

Yes, not good. But also imagine Vogue Quartely with 700+ pages like Pop.

 

[tigerrouge]

More like 70 pages, given the current average page count of US magazines.

If US Vogue has been the edition in which all the reprinted content is first featured, but the frequency of its release now drops to 6 or so issues a year, does this mean all the other editions which are still producing 10 or 12 issues a year are going to have to come up with some original content of their own?

Hard to see how that fits in with the overall Conde Nast cost-cutting strategy.

 

[callmejaeden]

More like 70 pages, given the current average page count of US magazines.

If US Vogue has been the edition in which all the reprinted content is first featured, but the frequency of its release now drops to 6 or so issues a year, does this mean all the other editions which are still producing 10 or 12 issues a year are going to have to come up with some original content of their own?

Hard to see how that fits in with the overall Conde Nast cost-cutting strategy.

The yearly page count will remain the same, so the page count of today's ten issues (1,577 for the year) will be distributed across the eight issues (around 200 pages per issue). In theory, the reprints will be spaced out. For example, Vogue Espanã March and April will have reprints from American Vogue's Spring Fashions issue, and May will have reprints from the Met Gala issue and/or the Spring Fashions issue.

 

[tigerrouge]

That highly depends on securing advertising for the print edition.

The public expects Vogue to be providing them with the most up-to-date news about fashion, but with a increasingly irregular publishing schedule, they'll no longer know when to expect a new issue, and the interest in the print edition will wither.

The magazine will come out less often, hang around like a bad smell for months, going stale, unsold on the newsstand, advertisers will take note and spend even less on print, the balance between content and advertising will have to adjust accordingly, and before you know it, your credit card will start to look thicker than an issue of US Vogue.

 

[alwaysademo]

Although it conjures up a very convincing visual in my head, I don't think that will be the case.

Chloe was editing Vogue.com and while print started to dwindle visibly in circulation around 2012, the digital branch has become a success. I don't know the exact numbers but I'm pretty sure it's second to none.
I also see a mood shift in recent years toward American fashion. The fact that US Vogue could secure the type of sponsors and venues they did for Vogue World is very telling of Vogue's health as a brand. Anna stepping down will create a resurgence/emergence of interests. Add on to that their monopoly on the Met (the only magazine that does not suffer in May) etc. There will be a storm and how Chloe handles that storm and where her interests ultimately lie will determine if print can thrive and make a meaningful comeback in this tenure.

 

[alwaysademo]

Couple of observable tidbits re: fashion advertisers to deepen this discussion:

-Chanel's and LV's unique ties with US Vogue: first Blazy's exclusive coverage of the collection happened in Vogue. Ghesquière did one-off couture pieces in September only for them.
-Saint Laurent is building its ties with new Hollywood, first by being a patron, based on the Vaccarello piece last month and the fact that they chose a SL dress on the cover for Nicole.
-VWE at Place Vendôme last year, I watched an interview recently with the recently appointed head of the Louvre to read her reactions, it was highly reciprocal.
-Greta Lee was chosen as the Dior ambassador for their recent cover is an acknowledgement to the Asian market.
-Hermès appointing a LVMH winner as their designer will likely result in a deeper bond later on, the Schouler boys at Loewe also might've had sth to do with Anna.

 

[tigerrouge]

I can see them producing more digital covers, separate to the print edition, for the purposes of signposting new content on the website, and also because the social currency of "getting a Vogue cover" is the last remaining really good hand that can be played by Conde Nast, one that helps differentiate it from being yet another site churning out online content for clicks.

But produce too may digital covers that have no relation to the print product, and over time, even the impact of that will start to diminish.

 

[alwaysademo]

I wouldn't make such assumptions (that she will prioritize digital) just based on her cv. Anna is at heart an institutionalist, even if her decision-making might seem unorthodox sometimes for that description. She clearly picked another institutionalist and I hope Chloe will put to use all her cool tricks that she has to elevate print.
The difficult part of the global strategy will also soon pass and I think US Vogue is eager to remake their mark as "tastemaker". I just wonder how the dynamics will play out between her and a few other HOCs.