Which editor transformed Vogue into a major fashion authority after Condé Nast acquired it?

Edna Woolman Chase transformed Vogue into a major fashion authority after Condé Nast acquired it.

Chase joined Vogue before the acquisition and became its editor-in-chief in 1914. During her long tenure, she strengthened the magazine’s fashion reporting, editorial standards, and influence within the emerging modern fashion system.

Her leadership helped move Vogue beyond its earlier society-magazine identity. The publication increasingly focused on designers, couture, photography, and the presentation of fashion as a serious cultural and commercial subject.

Chase is sometimes overshadowed by later editors such as Diana Vreeland, Grace Mirabella, and Anna Wintour. Those editors shaped important later eras, but Chase led Vogue during the foundational period when its modern authority was being established. She served as editor-in-chief until 1952.