Her appointment stirred vigorous scrutiny and discussion, with The New York Times article about her being entitled "The Most Watched Editor at Fashion Week".
Her parents divorced in 2004, and her father eventually remarried Julie Chen Moonves, host of The Talk and Big Brother.
She followed Singer back to Vogue to become a contributing fashion editor.
[1] On June 25, 2019, Condé Nast sold W to Future Media, and Moonves replaced the previous editor, Stefano Tonchi.
Her boss, Marc Lotenberg, CEO of Future Media, said the magazine had to be put into "survival mode", because “[T]he bottom has dropped out of the luxury market.”[6] On August 14, 2020, W magazine was acquired by a group of new investors.