Mirabella Resigns as Vogue Editor-in-Chief

Grace Mirabella, the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine for the past 17 years, has resigned and was replaced by the editor of HG magazine, Anna Wintour.

The changes were announced by S. I. Newhouse, chairman of Conde Nast Publications Inc., which owns both magazines.

Wintour, 38, was appointed editor-in-chief of HG--formerly House & Garden--only last September. She previously served for slightly more than a year as editor-in-chief of British Vogue. She has also been creative director of Vogue and a senior editor at New York magazine.

Wintour was succeeded at HG by Nancy Novogrod, 38, a senior editor at the magazine who previously worked for the New Yorker and for Clarkson Potter, a book publisher.

Mirabella, 58, joined Vogue in 1951 and was named editor-in-chief 21 years later when Diana Vreeland retired. Under Mirabella’s direction, the magazine’s circulation rose from 400,000 to 1.2 million, according to Conde Nast.

A spokesman for Conde Nast, Leslie Palmer, declined to comment on the reasons for Mirabella’s resignation or her plans for future employment. Mirabella did not return a telephone call to her office.

Newhouse praised Mirabella’s “remarkable contribution to Vogue and to Conde Nast. Grace’s most significant success has been expressed in the high quality of Vogue’s reportage of the fashion, beauty and cultural trends that evolved during her tenure.”