Stephen Quinn, publishing director of British Vogue for more than 26 years, has announced that he will be retiring at the end of 2017. Stephen joined Condé Nast in 1988 from Hearst to launch British GQ, making it a great success and to a large degree establishing the men’s market in the UK. Four years later, in 1992, Stephen oversaw his first issue of Vogue as publishing director, with then editor Liz Tilberis. Stephen will continue as Publishing Director of Vogue until 22 December 2017.

News regarding his successor will be announced shortly.
 
“Stephen Quinn has steered the Vogue business spectacularly for more than a quarter of a century, and is still working at maximum power in his seventies. Stephen brings a unique level of charm to each meeting and exchange, while his reputation as a firebrand is well recorded. He is a strident defender of the fashion bible, and an executive who relishes a battle. One of the great characters of the media industry, respected and loved by all his staff and those who work alongside him, Vogue House and the fashion and media industries will miss the ebullient and very mighty Quinn,” commented Albert Read, Managing Director of Condé Nast Britain.