Millennials are in charge now. What does that look like?

If you’re part of a younger generation, you’re probably aware of a lot of discussion about the ways Baby Boomers have failed us. You’ve heard about how they haven’t set us up for success financially, refuse to retire, and generally set expectations that are impossible to meet in this day and age. The nature of work is changing all the time, but it has changed dramatically over the last 10 years. We’ve gone from an age of illusion to an age of disillusion. We’re more informed than ever, and we know the ways the workplace can take advantage of us when we let it. The proliferation of subreddits like r/antiwork makes us more skeptical of the way we’re treated at the office. The new Editor of Vogue, Chloe Malle, who is poised as Anna Wintour’s successor, represents that younger generation.

We think of Vogue as one of the last bastions of old media. It’s a magazine from a magazine-forward time. One that we decidedly do not live in anymore. We’ve been in a staunchly digital world for over a decade now, and it has taken some legacy institutions a while to catch up to that change. But Malle, the 40-year-old editor, seems to understand that. When asked a question about what she would do if Vogue had as much of a budget as it did in the 90s, she gave a very millennial answer, one that focused on wages and digital reach.