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Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
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The editor succeeds Michelle Lee, who announced in June she was leaving the beauty magazine to join Netflix. Cruel has worked at Allure since 2019 and previously held roles at Refinery29, New York Magazine and other titles. She founded The Melanin Edit, an Allure subsection dedicated to Black beauty, that launched in April. Cruel begins her new role on Sept. 8.
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The production will take place on June 23rd on Place Vendôme and feature fashion content overseen by Carine Roitfeld, Ibrahim Kamara and fashion historian Alexandre Samson.
Condé Nast said it is searching for a successor to take over after Zhang, whose appointment never became less divisive.