Mark Guiducci has been named the first global editorial director of Vanity Fair.
In the newly created role, Guiducci will oversee creative and editorial direction of Vanity Fair across all markets, including the United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain. The appointment comes a few months after Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Radhika Jones announced plans to leave the publication.
Guiducci, who lives in New York, starts in the role June 30. He has been serving as creative editorial director at Vogue since 2020, where he led the launch of Vogue World, in addition to overseeing content across print, digital, video, audio, social media and live events.
“The world today is spinning faster than ever, as the forces of Hollywood, politics, the arts, money, and style collide with all the drama of a Verdi opera in its final act. At the center of it all, documenting the stakes and the spectacle, is Vanity Fair,” Guiducci said. “My first job out of college was here and it proved to be the most extraordinary journalism school I could have imagined. To return now, fifteen years later, as global editorial director — reuniting with former colleagues and meeting new ones around the world—is the honor of my career. I am profoundly grateful to Roger, Stan, and Anna for this opportunity and cannot wait to get started. It will be a great adventure.”
Before Vogue, where he had previously worked in the feature department, including as arts editor, Guiducci was the editor-in-chief of GARAGE, where he led the digital transformation of the biannual art publication. Guiducci started his career at Vanity Fair as an assistant to the managing editor.
“I grew up in an editorial household and have been surrounded by editors all my life. One thing I have observed is that the greatest of them are not fixed rudders but sails. Through the unique weave of their interests and experience, they catch the winds of their moment over and over again. They inspire their colleagues to move with speed, dexterity, and thrilling derring-do. That’s the magic of Mark, an energetic and creative editor at the center of his generation and a leader under whom Vanity Fair will grow in ways I can foresee and, no doubt, many ways I can’t. None of us knows what the future will bring — only that Vanity Fair will define it under Mark,” Anna Wintour, chief creative officer, Condé Nast, said in a statement.
