Teen Vogue’s Lindsay Peoples Wagner Named The Cut’s New EIC
Lindsay Peoples Wagner. Courtesy.
Teen Vogue’s editor-in-chief of more than two years, Lindsay Peoples Wagner, has been named editor of New York Magazine’s The Cut, its women’s and fashion-focused vertical.
A representative for New York Magazine did not respond to a request for comment. Neither did Peoples Wagner.
The new position further establishes Peoples Wagner as a young leader among a new cohort of editors-in-chief who came of age when print media was already declining. Many of her peers, who climbed mastheads quickly over the last decade, have since left media altogether, seeking more freedom, better pay and some respite from the constant pivots of legacy media. Marie Claire’s new editor Aya Kanai was hired by Pinterest last year, for example. Peoples Wagner’s predecessors at Teen Vogue, Phillip Picardi and Elaine Welteroth, have moved onto podcast, television and book projects.
This is not Peoples Wagner’s first time at The Cut. She was the title’s fashion market editor before leaving for the top role at Condé Nast’s Teen Vogue in 2018, shortly after her article on “What it’s really like to be Black and work in fashion” drew acclaim. At Condé Nast, where she was the youngest editor-in-chief in the building, she continued to address race and politics through the lens of fashion and beauty, agitating for progress in the fashion business.
