Media: Headliner: Forbes descends from Vogue heights to enjoy the easy life.(Susie Forbes to edit Easy Living)

The Vogue deputy editor is set to edit Conde Nast's Easy Living title.

After nine years at Vogue, Susie Forbes confesses to having become institutionalised. But she has finally found something worthy of tempting her away from the glamorous fifth floor of Vogue House. From this month, she will be consigned to the basement, as she becomes the editor of Conde Nast's new women's glossy, Easy Living.

'I always thought I'd be a Vogue lifer,' Forbes says. After all, she has spent the past few years working her way around the title - from the features and lifestyle departments to fashion editor and latterly the role of deputy editor.

Her rise through the Conde Nast ranks has been pretty textbook. Having studied for a history of art degree at Edinburgh University, she landed her first job as a fashion secretary on Elle. She then worked at Emap's Sky magazine and, three years later, she was poached for Vogue by its then deputy editor, Louise Chunn.

Forbes acknowledges working on Vogue has been an incredibly glamorous ride but is surprisingly unruffled about leaving the title: 'I was presented with an opportunity I just couldn't turn down. Easy Living is such a me magazine.'

Displaying none of the luvvie attitude you might expect from a seasoned fashion hack, Forbes admits to being a normal, anxious woman underneath all the Vogue sheen.

'I mind about being a poor cook and look for help,' she says, explaining that she is essentially the kind of woman that the new magazine will target - the fashionable but practical.