WOMEN+POWER: Anna Wintour

Anna Wintour, the long-time global editorial director of Vogue, is taking a step back from her editorial duties at the fashion publication.

She will continue to oversee Vogue globally in her post as the publication’s global editorial director, while Vogue U.S. will recruit a new head of editorial content to replace her as editor-in-chief. Wintour on Thursday announced the new job title, head of editorial content, American Vogue. 

“She is still very much staying at Condé Nast and Vogue,” Vogue publisher Condé Nast said in a statement to CBS News. 

Wintour, 75, remains at the top of Vogue’s masthead, as she retains her title as Vogue’s global editorial director. She is also the chief content officer for Condé Nast. In that role, she will continue to oversee media brands including Wired, Vanity Fair, GQ and Condé Nast Traveler. 

Wintour became editor-in-chief of Vogue in 1988 and is widely considered to be the most powerful figure in the fashion industry, believed to have inspired Meryl Streep’s icy Miranda Priestly, editor of the fictional Runway magazine, in the 2006 film “The Devil Wears Prada.”

“It was entertainment. It was not a true rendition of what happens within this magazine,” Wintour told CBS News’ “60 Minutes” in 2009.