Teen Vogue’s No. 2 editor leaves the title of Condé Nast: a day after Alexi McCammond, who was due to become editor-in-chief next week, gave up a storm of controversy over racist tweets he made as to a freshman a decade earlier.
“I’ve been sitting on this ad for a long time, but today is my last day as executive editor at @TeenVogue!” Samhita Mukhopadhyay, executive editor of Teen Vogue, announced his departure on Twitter on Friday. “Working here has been one of the most rewarding, challenging and important experiences of my life.”
“The work we have done at Teen Vogue is historic and I know the team will only continue with this legacy. It has been a tough year and a few especially tough weeks for us. It will take me a while to process everything,” he continued. .
“But I stand firm in my belief in the transformative power of stories and in the importance of amplifying the most marginalized voices, the ones that liberate us.”
Mukhopadhyay, seen as one of the driving forces behind the digital magazine’s aggressive push to cover LBGTQ issues and the presidential election, expanding its readers beyond the world of fashion and makeup, declined to comment. more Friday.
His departure, however, did not appear to be directly linked to the turmoil surrounding McCammond, and was announced internally about six weeks ago.
A source familiar with Mukopadhyay, who joined Teen Vogue in 2018, said she had made the decision to resign when former editor Lindsey Peoples Wagner announced her departure in early January, saying she would return to New York to take over her fashion blog, The Tallar.
His departure indicates that Conde Nast honcho, Anna Wintour, did not have a “Plan B” to promote an internal candidate to fill the position of editor in any vacancy in Teen Vogue now that Alexi McCammond has retired.
Conde Nast spokesmen did not immediately return the calls.