Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine published in several countries around the world. It is published by Condé Nast Publications, headquartered at the Conde Nast building at 4 Times Square, New York, NY.History
Today, there are different editions of Vogue are published around the world: Vogue Australia, Vogue Brasil, Vogue China, Vogue Germany, Vogue Greece, Vogue Italy, Vogue Korea, Vogue Japan, Vogue Mexico, Vogue France, Vogue Portugal, Vogue Russia, Vogue Spain, Vogue Switzerland, Vogue Taiwan, Vogue United Kingdom and the Vogue United States.However Vogue Paris and Vogue Italia are arguably the most influential magazines of the fashion world.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, Vogue also publishes writings on art, culture, politics, and ideas. On the way, Vogue has helped to enshrine the fashion model as celebrity. Vogues success and influence have not been universally lauded, and 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. The magazine surged in subscriptions during the depression and World War II. Its photography at the time reflected the imagery of contemporaneous Hollywood films: staged and luxurious. Vogue is celebrating it's 90th birthday this year One of Lisa Fonssagrives' more than 200 covers on Vogue The historic relationship between Vogue and supermodels began with top fashion model Lisa Fonssagrives who appeared on over 200 Vogue covers. Fonssagrives at the height of her career could be both sophisticated and yet a cook, something with which every American woman could identify. Her presence in nearly every fashion magazine from the 1930s to the 1950s, from Town & Country, Life, Vogue, and the original Vanity Fair to the cover of Time helped to build her name recognition, and the importance of Vogue in helping a model reach "supermodel" status. Being on the cover of Vogue became a symbol of success for models. Regular appearances on the cover of Vogue establishes supermodels such as Gemma Ward, Jessica Stam, and Daria Werbowy. Multiple Vogue covers becomes a cornerstone of being considered a supermodel.But Vogue truly hit its stride under the leadership of editor-in-chief Jessica Daves and art director Alexander Liberman, when it began to publish the work of photographers Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. Penn and Avedon broke decisively with the stuffy conventions of previous fashion photography: Penn by a stripped-down minimalism that left his subjects in bare studios against stark empty backgrounds; Avedon by breaking out of the confines of dispassionate, static studio tableaux and shooting dynamic pictures of models at the height of emotion and in the middle of action. Vogues influence of both approaches to fashion photography can still be seen in the pages of every fashion magazine today.In the 1960s, with famed editor-in-chief and personality Diana Vreeland in charge, Vogue 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, ` became a monthly magazine, and the revolutionary air of the sixties gave way to more practical clothing. Vogue’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. Wintour's Vogue 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. Wintour's notoriously demanding personality at Vogue was the subject of a roman à clef titled The Devil Wears Prada, which has also been made into a film.One sign of Vogue's continuing success is the number of advertising pages it manages to sell, which contributes to its reputation as the fashionista's doorstop. |
