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Vogue

Kate Moss on the cover of a 2003 issue of British Vogue Image File history File links Derived from public domain images featured at: http://commons. ... As a noun, vogue suggests transient impermanent fashionability; hence phrases such as vogue word. ... Image File history File links VogueKate2003. ... Not to be confused with Kate Mosse. ...

Editor Flag of the United Kingdom Alexandra Shulman
Flag of the United States Anna Wintour
Flag of Russia Aliona Doletskaya
Flag of France Carine Roitfeld
Flag of Italy Franca Sozzani
Flag of Australia Kirstie Clements
Flag of Germany Christiane Arp
Flag of South Korea Myung Hee Lee (이명희)
Flag of India Priya Tanna
Categories Fashion
Frequency Monthly
First issue 1892
Company Condé Nast Publications
Country Flag of the United States United States
(other countries also available)
Language English, Italian, French, Russian, Traditional Chinese, German, Korean
Website www.style.com/vogue

Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine published in several countries by Condé Nast Publications. Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Alexandra Shulman is editor of British Vogue who wrote some snarky comments about the Wikipedia entry for haute couture in an article in the Guardian. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Anna Wintour (born November 3, 1949, in London) has been the editor-in-chief of American Vogue since 1988. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Russia. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Carine Roitfeld is the Editor-in-Chief of the French edition of Vogue, a position she has held since 2001. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... Franca Sozzani is the Editor-in-Chief of the Italian edition of Vogue, a position she has held since 1988. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_South_Korea. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_India. ... For other uses, see Fashion (disambiguation). ... Condé Nast Publications Inc is a worldwide magazine publishing company based in New York City. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Traditional Chinese (Traditional Chinese: 正體字/繁體字, Simplified Chinese: 正体字/繁体字) refers to one of two standard sets of printed Chinese characters. ... For other uses, see Fashion (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Condé Nast Publications Inc is a worldwide magazine publishing company based in New York City. ...

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History

Vogue was described by book critic Caroline Weber in The New York Times in December 2006 as "the world's most influential fashion magazine": The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ... This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ...

Vogue is to our era what the idea of God was, in Voltaire’s famous parlance, to his: if it didn’t exist, we would have to invent it. Revered for its editorial excellence and its visual panache, the magazine has long functioned as a bible for anyone worshiping at the altar of luxury, celebrity and style. And while we perhaps take for granted the extent to which this trinity dominates consumer culture today, Vogue’s role in catalyzing its rise to pre-eminence cannot be underestimated.[1]

Vogue was founded by Kelly Trepkowski, but today there are different editions of Vogue published around the world: Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom and the United States. Under the ownership of New York-based magazine publisher Condé Nast and through a succession of women editors, Vogue is most famous as a presenter of images of high fashion and high society, but it also publishes writings on art, culture, politics, and ideas. On the way, it has helped to enshrine the fashion model as celebrity. Vogue is regularly criticized, along with the fashion industry it writes about, for valuing wealth, social connections, and low body weight over more noble achievements. It celebrated its 114th birthday in 2006. This article is about the Korean peninsula and civilization. ... Photograph of the once famous model Dovima A model is a person who poses or displays for purposes of art, fashion, or other products and advertising. ... For other uses, see Celebrity (disambiguation). ...


The magazine surged in subscriptions during the Depression and World War II, a period during which noted critic and former Vanity Fair editor Frank Crowninshield served as its editor, having been moved over from Vanity Fair by publisher Condé Nast.[2] For other uses, see The Great Depression (disambiguation). ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... American actress Demi Moore, on a typical Vanity Fair cover (August, 1991) Vanity Fair is a glossy American glamour magazine monthly that offers a mixture of articles based on sensational exaggerations, jet-set and entertainment-business personalities, politics, and lies. ... Francis Welch Crowninshield (1872–1947), better known as Frank or Crownie (informal), was a French-born, America-based journalist and art and theatre critic best known for developing and editing the magazine Vanity Fair. ... Condé Montrose Nast, born March 26, 1873 in New York City, United States, died there on September 19, 1942, was the founder of Condé Nast Publications, a major American magazine publisher. ...

Vogue editors Anna Wintour and André Leon Talley, center
Vogue editors Anna Wintour and André Leon Talley, center

Lauren Hutton has appeared on over 30 Vogue covers.[citation needed] Brooke Shields has made 14 appearances on the cover of American Vogue,[citation needed] the first being the February 1980 issue. She was only fourteen at the time, making her the youngest cover model in the magazine's history. Image File history File linksMetadata Anna_Wintour_by_David_Shankbone. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Anna_Wintour_by_David_Shankbone. ... Anna Wintour (born November 3, 1949, in London) has been the editor-in-chief of American Vogue since 1988. ... André Leon Talley, (born 1949) is the editor-at-large for Vogue magazine and has been a front-row regular at fashion shows in New York, Paris, London and Milan for over 25 years. ... Lauren Hutton (born November 17, 1943) is an American actress and model. ... Brooke Christa Camille Shields[1] (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and supermodel. ...


In the 1960s, with editor-in-chief and personality Diana Vreeland in charge, the magazine rose to the occasion of this candy-colored, youth-oriented decade of sexual revolution by focusing more on the exciting fashions of the times[citation needed], through daringly playful, theatrical, and straightforwardly sexual editorial features. Vogue also continued making household names out of pretty faces, a practice that continued with Suzy Parker, Twiggy, Penelope Tree, and others. Diana Vreeland (July 29, 1906 in Paris, France – August 22, 1989) was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. ... For the Macy Gray song, see Sexual Revolution (song). ... Cecilia Ann Renee Parker (October 28, 1932 in San Antonio, Texas - May 3, 2003 in Montecito, California) was an American supermodel and actress. ... This article is about the English supermodel. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


Under the tenure of editor-in-chief Grace Mirabella through the 1970s and 1980s, the bimonthly magazine became a monthly, and the revolutionary air of the sixties gave way to more practical clothing. The magazine's female audience was no longer in the kitchen dreaming of a better life. It was heading out every morning for work, and editorial changes reflected this new reality. Grace Mirabella (born 1930) is a former editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine where she worked from 1971 to 1988. ...

Anna Wintour, the current editor-in-chief of American Vogue, at New York's 2005 Fall Fashion Week.
Anna Wintour, the current editor-in-chief of American Vogue, at New York's 2005 Fall Fashion Week.

The current editor-in-chief of American Vogue is Anna Wintour, noted for her trademark bob and her practice of wearing sunglasses indoors. Since taking over in 1988, Wintour has worked to protect the magazine's No. 1 status among fashion publications, both in terms of reputation and sales. In order to do so, she brought the magazine down from what Time called "its Olympian heights, acknowledging that trends are as likely to start from the ground as be decreed from on high."[3] This allowed Wintour to keep a high circulation while discovering new trends that a broader audience could conceivably afford.[3] For example, the inaugural cover of the magazine under Wintour's editorship featured a three-quarter-length photograph of a model wearing a bejeweled Christian Lacroix jacket and a pair of jeans, departing from her predecessors' tendency to portray a woman’s face alone, which according to the Times' Weber, gave "greater importance to both her clothing and her body. This image also promoted a new form of chic by combining jeans with haute couture. Wintour’s debut cover brokered a class-mass rapprochement that informs modern fashion to this day."[1] Image File history File links Anna_Wintour. ... Image File history File links Anna_Wintour. ... Anna Wintour (born November 3, 1949, in London) has been the editor-in-chief of American Vogue since 1988. ... Woman sporting bob with finger waves, 1920s A bob is a short haircut that became modern for women in the early 1920s. ... Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses (RB2132 901L) Sunglasses are a visual aid, variously termed spectacles or glasses, which feature lenses that are coloured or darkened to prevent strong light from reaching the eyes. ... “TIME” redirects here. ... Christian Marie Marc Lacroix (May 16, 1951 in Arles, France) is a French fashion designer. ... Blue Jeans (Levis 506) Jeans are trousers traditionally made from denim, but may also be made from a variety of fabrics including corduroy. ...


Wintour's Vogue also aggressively nurtures new design talent, and her presence at fashion shows is often taken as an indicator of the designer's profile within the industry. In 2003, she joined the Council of Fashion Designers of America in creating a fund that provides money and guidance to at least two emerging designers each year.[3] This has built loyalty among the emerging new star designers, and helped preserve the magazine's dominant position of influence through what Time called her own "considerable influence over American fashion. Runway shows don't start until she arrives. Designers succeed because she anoints them. Trends are created or crippled on her command."[3] The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a non-profit trade group for American fashion designers founded in 1962. ...


The contrast of Wintour's vision with her predecessor has been noted as striking by observers, from both her critics and defenders. Amanda Fortini, fashion and style contributor to Slate argued that "during her tenure, Vogue has been enormously successful": Slate is an online news and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley and owned by Microsoft (as part of MSN). ...

[W]hen Wintour was appointed head of Vogue, Grace Mirabella had been editor in chief for 17 years, and the magazine had grown complacent, coasting along in what one journalist derisively called "its beige years." Beige was the color Mirabella had used to paint over the red walls in Diana Vreeland's office, and the metaphor was apt: The magazine had become boring. Among Condé Nast executives, there was worry that the grand dame of fashion publications was losing ground to upstart Elle, which in just three years had reached a paid circulation of 851,000 to Vogue's stagnant 1.2 million. And so Condé Nast publisher Si Newhouse brought in the 38-year-old Wintour—who, through editor in chief positions at British Vogue and House & Garden, had become known not only for her cutting-edge visual sense but also for her ability to radically revamp a magazine—to shake things up.[4]

On the other hand, as Wintour came to personify the magazine's image, she and Vogue drew critics. Wintour's one-time assistant at the magazine, Lauren Weisberger, authored a roman à clef entitled The Devil Wears Prada, a best-selling novel published in 2003 which was made into a highly successful, Academy Award-nominated film in 2006. The central character resembled Weisberger, and her boss was a powerful editor-in-chief of a fictionalized version of Vogue. The novel portrays a magazine ruled by "the Antichrist and her coterie of fashionistas, who exist on cigarettes, Diet Dr. Pepper, and mixed green salads", according to a review in the New York Times. The editor who personifies the magazine she runs is described by Weisberger as being "an empty, shallow, bitter woman who has tons and tons of gorgeous clothes and not much else". [5] However, the success of both the novel and the film have brought new attention from a wide global audience to the power and glamor of the magazine, and the industry it continues to lead.[6] Lauren Weisberger (born March 28, 1977 in Scranton, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist and author of the 2003 bestseller The Devil Wears Prada, a speculated roman à clef of her time as a put-upon assistant to Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. ... A roman à clef or roman à clé (French for novel with a key) is a novel describing real-life events behind a façade of fiction. ... The Devil Wears Prada (2003) is a best selling novel by Lauren Weisberger about a young woman who, freshly graduated from college, is hired as a personal assistant to a powerful fashion magazine editor, a job that becomes hellish as she struggles to keep up with her bosss capricious... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The Devil Wears Prada is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 comedy-drama film, a loose screen adaptation of Lauren Weisbergers 2003 novel of the same name. ...


Additionally, Vogue is one of the few women's magazines still advertising cigarettes. Their response to a Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids fax-writing campaign requesting Vogue to stop allowing Camel No. 9's "Light & Luscious" ads was "Could you stop? You're killing trees."[citation needed].


Other editions

In 2005, Condé Nast launched Men's Vogue and announced plans for an American version of Vogue Living launching in late fall of 2006 (there is currently an edition in Australia). An American mens fashion magazine, spun off from Vogue, a womens fashion magazine. ...


Condé Nast Publications also publishes Teen Vogue, a version of the magazine for younger girls in the United States. South Korea and Australia has a Vogue Girl magazine (currently suspended from further publication), in addition to Vogue Living and Vogue Entertaining + Travel. Condé Nast Publications Inc is a worldwide magazine publishing company based in New York City. ... Teen Vogue magazine began as a version of Vogue magazine for a younger audience. ... Teen Vogue magazine began as a version of Vogue magazine for a younger audience. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. ...


Vogue Hommes International is an international men's fashion magazine based in Paris, France, and L'uomo Vogue is the Italian men's version. Other Italian versions of Vogue include Vogue Casa and Bambini Vogue.


Until 1961, Vogue was also the publisher of Vogue Patterns, a home sewing pattern company. It was sold to Butterick Publishing which also licensed the Vogue name. Ebenezer Butterick (29 May 1826 – 31 March 1903) was an American inventor, manufacturer, and fashion business executive, born in Sterling, Massachusetts. ...


Media coverage of Vogue

A & E IndieFilms and R. J. Cutler are to shoot a feature-length documentary chronicling the making of Vogue's September issue. Cutler had approached Wintour in 2004 and will direct the untitled pic which will be shot over eight months as Wintour prepares the fall fashion issue, known in the industry as the "fashion bible". The filmmakers plan to have it completed in 2008 .[7] The issue in question is 13% content. Biography is one of A&Es longest-running and most popular programs. ... R. J. Cutler is a television- and film-maker. ... Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ...


Editors-in-Chief

Edna Woolman Chase was editor in chief of Vogue magazine from 1914-1952. ... Diana Vreeland (July 29, 1906 in Paris, France – August 22, 1989) was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. ... Grace Mirabella (born 1930) is a former editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine where she worked from 1971 to 1988. ... Anna Wintour (born November 3, 1949, in London) has been the editor-in-chief of American Vogue since 1988. ...

British Editors-in-Chief

Mrs Markham, the pseudonym of Elizabeth Penrose (3 August 1780 – 24 January 1837) was an English writer. ... Anna Wintour (born November 3, 1949, in London) has been the editor-in-chief of American Vogue since 1988. ... Born Elizabeth Jane Kelly (of Manx and English extraction) in 1947 in the UK. She was the editor of the British version of Vogue magazine before she immigrated to New York in 1992, and took over the helm of fashion institution Harpers Bazaar. ... Alexandra Shulman is editor of British Vogue who wrote some snarky comments about the Wikipedia entry for haute couture in an article in the Guardian. ...

References

  1. ^ a b Weber, Caroline "Fashion-Books: Review of "IN VOGUE: The Illustrated History of the World’s Most Famous Fashion Magazine (Rizzoli)", New York Times, December 3, 2006. Accessed January 28, 2007.]
  2. ^ Collins, Amy Fine, "Vanity Fair: The Early Years, 1914–1936", Vanity Fair. Accessed July 18, 2007.
  3. ^ a b c d Orecklin, Michelle "The Power List: Women in Fashion, #3 Anna Wintour". Time magazine, February 9, 2004. Retrieved January 29, 2007.
  4. ^ Fortini, Amanda "Defending Vogue's Evil Genius: The Brilliance of Anna Wintour". Posted Thursday, February 10, 2005. Retrieved January 29, 2007.
  5. ^ Betts, Kate "Anna Dearest". New York Times, April 13, 2003. Retrieved on January 29, 2007.
  6. ^ Wilson, Eric "The Devil Likes Attention". New York Times, December 28, 2006. Retrieved January 29, 2007.
  7. ^ Martin, Denise; December 14, 2006; Wintour documentary to hit the runway at A&E; Variety; retrieved March 3, 2007.

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External links

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  • Vogue History Summary at Bookrags.com
  • Butterick's history

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