Information about Vogue (magazine)

Vogue
Kate Moss on the cover of a 2003 issue of British Vogue Kate Moss on the cover of a 2003 issue of British Vogue
Editor	Alexandra Shulman Anna Wintour Aliona Doletskaya Carine Roitfeld Franca Sozzani Kirstie Clements Christiane Arp Myung Hee Lee (이명희) Priya Tanna
Categories	Fashion
Frequency	Monthly
First issue	1892
Company	Condé Nast Publications
Country	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.

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":

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Vogue was founded as a fashion society magazine in 1892, 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.

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.^[1]

Lauren Hutton has appeared on over 30 Vogue covers. Brooke Shields has made 14 appearances on the cover of American Vogue, 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.

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, 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.

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. 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."^[2] This allowed Wintour to keep a high circulation while discovering new trends that a broader audience could conceivably afford.^[2] 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."^[4]

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.^[2] 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."^[2]

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":

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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". ^[7] 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.^[8]

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.".

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).

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.

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.

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 .^[9] The issue in question is 13% content.

Editors-in-Chief

• Edna Woolman Chase (1914 – 1951)
• Jessica Daves (1952 – 1962)
• Diana Vreeland (1963 – June 1971)
• Grace Mirabella (July 1971 – October 1988)
• Anna Wintour (November 1988 – present)

British Editors-in-Chief

• Elizabeth Champcommunal (1916-1922)
• Dorothy Todd (1923-1925)
• Alison Settle (1926-1935)
• Elizabeth Penrose (1936-1939)
• Audrey Withers (1940-1960)
• Alisa Garland (1961-1964)
• Beatrix Miller (1965-1983)
• Anna Wintour (1984-1987)
• Elizabeth Tilberis (1988-1991)
• Alexandra Shulman (1992-Present)

References

External links

• Vogue
• Vogue British
• Vogue Italia
• Vogue China
• Vogue Paris
• Vogue Deutsch
• Vogue Hellas
• Vogue Nippon (Japan)
• Vogue Korea
• Vogue México
• Vogue España
• Vogue Taiwan
• Vogue Australia
• Vogue Brasil
• Vogue Portugal
• Vogue History Summary at Bookrags.com
• Butterick's history