Against Vogue’s No. 2 editor leaves the title of Condé Nast – a day after Alexi McCammond, who would become editor-in-chief next week, resigns in a firestorm of controversy over racist tweets she made a decade earlier as a first-year student has. .
“I’ve been sitting on this announcement for a while – but today is my last day as executive editor at @TeenVogue!” Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Teen Vogue’s executive editor, announced her retirement on Twitter on Friday. “Working here was one of the most rewarding, challenging and important experiences of my life.”
“The work we did at Teen Vogue is historic and I know the team will just continue this legacy. It has been a difficult year and a very difficult few weeks for us. It will take me a while to process everything, ”she continues.
“But I am steadfast in the belief in the transforming power of stories and in the importance of strengthening the voices that are most marginalized, the ones that set us free.”
Mukhopadhyay – seen as one of the driving forces behind the digital magazine’s aggressive pressure to cover LBGTQ issues and the presidential election, which broadens its readership beyond the makeup and fashion world – declined to comment further on Friday.
However, her departure does not appear to be directly linked to the unrest surrounding McCammond, and was apparently announced internally about six weeks ago.
One source familiar with Mukopadhyay, who joined Teen Vogue in 2018, said she made the decision to resign when former editor Lindsey Peoples Wagner announced her departure in early January, saying she was going to the magazine New York returns to take over fashion blog, The. Cut.
Her retirement indicates that Anna Wintour, Conde Nast honcho, did not have a ‘plan B’ to promote an internal candidate to fill the vacant editor-in-chief at Teen Vogue, after Alexi McCammond withdrew.
Spokesmen for Conde Nast did not immediately call.