After weeks of guessing games, Vanity Fair has found its new editorial leader.

Mark Guiducci, 36, has been named the first global editorial director of Vanity Fair, a newly created role that puts him at the helm of the glossy magazine. Based in New York, Guiducci will oversee the creative and editorial direction of Vanity Fair across all markets where it is published including the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain. He begins on June 30.

Guiducci takes over editorial duties from Radhika Jones, who held the editor in chief post from 2017 to 2025. She had replaced Graydon Carter, who had served as editor in chief for 25 years. The title of editor in chief is no longer being used.

Since 2020, Guiducci has been creative editorial director at Vogue, where he led content for the company’s largest title across print, digital, video, audio, social media and live events. He spearheaded the launch of Vogue World, one of the company’s most successful new franchises, bringing art, theater, sport and culture together to reimagine how fashion is presented to the world.

“The world today is spinning faster than ever, as the forces of Hollywood, politics, the arts, money and style collide with all the drama of a Verdi opera in its final act. At the center of it all, documenting the stakes and spectacle, is Vanity Fair. My first job out of college was here, and it proved to be the most extraordinary journalism school I could have imagined,” said the Princeton University grad. “To return now, 25 years later, as global editorial director – reuniting with former colleagues and meeting new ones around the world – is the honor of my career. I am profoundly grateful to Roger [Lynch, chief executive officer of Condé Nast], Stan [Duncan, chief people officer], and Anna [Wintour, chief creative officer of Condé Nast] for this opportunity and cannot wait to get started. It will be a great adventure.”

Wintour said, “I grew up in an editorial household and have been surrounded by editors all my life. One thing I have observed is that the greatest of them are not fixed rudders but sails. Through the unique wave of their interests and experience, they catch the winds of their moment over and over again. They inspire their colleagues to move with speed, dexterity, and thrilling derring-do. That’s the magic of Mark, an energetic and creative editor at the center of his generation and a leader under whom Vanity Fair will grow in ways I can foresee, and no doubt, many ways I can’t. None of us knows what the future will bring – only that Vanity Fair will define it under Mark.”

Since 2020, Guiducci has shaped Vogue’s’s global identity across 12 markets, from cover stories and cultural features to annual tentpoles such as the Met Gala and Vogue World. He has led new key initiatives such as the launch of Vogue’s Tik Tok channel, the flagship podcast The Run-Through and Open Casting Call, that brought 67,000 submissions from the Vogue community in the first year. Most recently, he spearheaded the Vogue Vintage Market, which raised more than $500,000 for victims of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. He also helped conceive and produce Vogue Studio’s film and TV projects including the documentary feature, “High & Low: John Galliano,” and the BAFTA-nominated docu-series “In Vogue: The 1990s” with Hulu.

Guiducci will now have Vanity Fair’s annual Oscar’s party, which has turned into an A-List must, under his purview.

Earlier, Guiducci was the editor in chief of Garage, where he oversaw the digital transformation of the biannual art publication under the ownership of Vice Media. He previously worked in the features department at Vogue, holding various roles including arts editor. He began his career at Vanity Fair as the assistant to the managing editor.