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At his men’s show on Thursday, shortly after Condé Nast announced that chief content officer Anna Wintour was finally relinquishing her editorship of American Vogue, the rumor backstage was that Rick Owens changed the soundtrack to “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead.” Except she isn’t. Like many leaders of her generation, Wintour is not letting go so easily, and many of her obligations are not subject to change. She’ll remain Condé Nast’s chief content officer, and the lead chairperson of the Met Gala. She’s also still the global head of editorial content for Vogue. After systematically killing the title, Wintour will be the magazine’s last editor-in-chief. But now the regional job of running content at American Vogue, a position that has technically laid vacant on the Condé org chart for five years while Wintour did multiple-duty, is going to get filled.