Mi-Anne Chan

Mi-Anne Chan is Creative Editorial Director at Teen Vogue, shaping fashion and beauty storytelling through video, live events, and digital features that center youth culture, fandom, and identity. Her work foregrounds how personal style, celebrity, and mental health intersect, treating clothing and beauty as parts of wider cultural narratives rather than standalone trends. She brings a beauty-editor background into fashion coverage, using product literacy and experimentation to keep style stories grounded in real routines and textures.

Fashion, fandom, and Teen Vogue Fest

At Teen Vogue, Chan’s fashion coverage often unfolds through programming rather than traditional reported pieces, using stages and screens to connect wardrobe with fandom and creative work.

She delivers opening and closing remarks at Teen Vogue Fest and helps set the editorial spine of the event, which includes sessions on the “fandom to real job pipeline” and “The Making of a Cover,” framing fashion as both aspiration and workplace reality for young audiences. In “The Making of a Global Starr: Ayra Starr Closed Out Teen Vogue Fest 2026,” she leads a conversation that situates the singer’s stage presence, career milestones, and self-image alongside performance styling and visual identity. Her Teen Vogue video “Ayra Starr does NOT do the ‘frigid’ Septembers and Octobers in NYC 😭” extends that relationship offstage, using a casual, seasonal hook to explore how an artist’s aversion to cold city months shapes the way they dress and show up in public.

Chan also appears within Teen Vogue’s own fashion features, which gives her coverage a lived-in quality rather than a purely observational one.

In the wardrobe story “How 5 Teen Vogue Editors Are Styling Wardrobe Staples This Fall,” she foregrounds deep comfort and mobility, focusing on wide-leg, barrel-shaped jeans that can handle “knees up by the side of the road” squats while still looking structured enough for the office. She pairs those jeans with an oversized striped button-down and loafers, anchoring the piece in the tradeoffs real people make between ease, polish, and personality.

Across these formats, her fashion work is less about dictating trends and more about showing how clothes function in the lives of artists, editors, and fans.

Beauty with Mi

Before her current role, Chan built a distinctive body of beauty-first work that still informs her fashion coverage. As a beauty editor and on-camera host at Refinery29, she created and fronted the YouTube series “Beauty with Mi,” a franchise that explores “the coolest new trends, treatments, products, and subcultures in the beauty” space.

The show’s growth - from an average of 5 million views to 17 million in 2018 - reflects an ability to package niche treatments and products in formats that are approachable and credible for a wide audience.

Her reported pieces from that period range from product-driven stories like “25 Trader Joe’s Beauty Products That are Actually Amazing” to service journalism on intimate procedures such as “Confessions of a Vagina Facialist,” combining curiosity with practical detail. That mix of high-low subjects and willingness to cover both everyday staples and specialized treatments gives her fashion and beauty stories a broad, non-elitist frame.

Chan’s beauty work consistently returns to questions of representation and inclusivity, treating coverage of treatments and products as an opportunity to highlight who gets seen and catered to in the industry. She has spoken about using platforms like YouTube to emphasize diversity in media, and that perspective carries into her later fashion work, where casting, fandom, and audience are part of the editorial conversation.

For communications around fashion, this history means she approaches clothing not just as surface styling but as one element in a larger ecosystem of body, care, and visibility.

mixed feelings and youth subcultures

Alongside her Teen Vogue role, Chan is the founding editor of mixed feelings, a youth-culture newsletter and social forum that extends her interest in pop culture, fandom, and mental health beyond traditional magazine formats. Her current remit includes overseeing editorial video and audio portfolios across Teen Vogue, them., and LOVE, giving her a vantage point on how fashion and beauty stories travel through short-form video, long-form interviews, and audio programming. She has held senior video programming and development responsibilities that cover both US and international editions of major brands, and continues to pilot multi-platform series that blend entertainment, fashion, and identity coverage.

Across these projects, youth subcultures are not treated as fringe communities but as central audiences whose tastes and self-presentation drive the direction of mainstream style.

Her editorial through-line is consistent: she builds fashion and beauty narratives around the people who wear the clothes and use the products, whether that is a global pop artist onstage, an editor in barrel jeans at the office, or a viewer curious about a new treatment. She favors formats that allow those subjects to speak directly - live Q&As, hosted video series, and conversational essays - which, in turn, give her coverage a tone that is both fan-aware and critically engaged.

The result is fashion storytelling that sits at the intersection of style, fandom, and wellbeing, and that is designed to move fluidly between video, events, and written features.