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Condé Nast has announced Tiffany Godoy will become head of editorial content at Vogue Japan, in a newly created role to oversee the title’s editorial operations, strategy and vision.
Godoy, a journalist, editor, consultant, video and podcast creator, will be based in Japan and work closely with Anna Wintour, global editorial director of Vogue and chief content officer of Condé Nast, and Leslie Sun, director of Vogue APAC.
“Tiffany’s experience working across print, digital, audio and video, coupled with her deep understanding of — and passion for — Japanese fashion culture, make her a natural fit for this role,” said Wintour. Godoy began her career as a fashion editor in Tokyo and, over the past two decades, has written for publications including Vogue, CNN and Highsnobiety. She has authored the books Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion Tokyo; Japanese Goth; and the forthcoming A History of Contemporary Japanese Fashion. She also co-founded the multimedia magazine and creative studio The Reality Show in 2010.
The appointment follows the departure in August of Vogue Japan’s editor-in-chief Mitsuko Watanabe, one of several top Vogue editors who have stepped down from global roles in recent months as a result of company-wide consolidation efforts following the merger of Condé Nast’s international unit with its US division in 2019. (Vogue Business is also owned by Condé Nast.) As part of that reorganisation, Condé Nast is centralising control in the hands of a few top editors, including Vogue’s European editorial director Edward Enninful, rather than having an individual editor-in-chief at each national title.
Within the last six months, French fashion editor Eugénie Trochu became head of editorial content for Vogue Paris; former fashion market director Francesca Ragazzi was promoted to head of editorial content at Vogue Italia; and Inprint magazine's editor and creative director Megha Kapoor relocated from Sydney to India to take on the role of Vogue India’s head of editorial content.
“I am incredibly proud to contribute to the Vogue legacy as the content lead for Japan,” said Godoy. “Japan and Vogue are pillars of my creative and career development, and I am thrilled to intersect new media possibilities, identity and innovation through Japan’s singular aesthetic and cultural filter.”
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