“Every day feels like: ‘Don’t mess this up,’” said Lindsay Peoples Wagner, the editor in chief of Teen Vogue, this past spring. And it was not quite two years after Anna Wintour, the artistic director of Condé Nast, who was looking for a new Teen Vogue editor, emailed her with a blank subject line, asking to meet. Peoples Wagner, who wore a floral Prada dress. “‘If you’re going to be in this industry,’” Ms. Peoples Wagner recalled her mother telling her, “‘you’re going to have to be what you needed.’”

Source: International New York Times October 30, 2019 20:03 UTC