Vogue: The Covers (updated edition)

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Since 1916 VOGUE s covers have celebrated the most striking women of our age, captured by the century's leading photographers, the greatest artists and the most inventive fashion. For the first time, this book brings together in one volume nearly a century of covers both illustrated and photographic. West petitioned and pleaded for him and his bride to get a spot on the cover of this historical magazine…and he won!

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Nevertheless, I arrive at the 82-year-old’s lofty Victorian home in south London admonished and respectable. I actually find lesbians a bit on the boring side, because they’re a bit heavy-handed about it all,” she says, deadpan. Perhaps that’s what drew Margolyes to join various theatrical groups while studying English at Cambridge. For every person who admired her past performances (Queen Victoria in Blackadder springs to mind) and voice work (be it as a sheepdog in the Oscar-winning Babe or her turn as the Caramel Bunny in the Cadbury adverts), it feels like a dozen more have now discovered her via her pottymouthed chat-show appearances and TV documentaries. The result is what have already become some of the most defining images conjured by the magazine in its 105-year-long history, with a midwife, a transport worker and supermarket employee sharing a triptych of covers for the July 2020 issue.

Then you have people such as Grace Coddington, the Creative Director of the magazine who has seamlessly pulled together the creative strategy that has made the magazine so well-known.

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Her time there was short-lived and though she made good friends, she says, it “wasn’t a success particularly.Brilliant, captivating and full of life, this is the face of the world s most influential magazine and the original style bible. Her publicist guides me through a spacious open-plan kitchen and out on to the patio of a cottage-style, terraced garden. There is always a reason that they person on the cover is there and Vogue captures them at their most important moments, making a statement month after month. I love the 1940's, where can see more of a focus on fashion on a budget (more dress patterns) in the midst of WWII for the average woman, and the 1950's covers, where you see what ladylike perfection looks like- the tailored silhouette, red lips, hats, gloves. It was almost a spectacle in the media because so many people disagreed, not deeming them Vogue worthy.

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Your CA Privacy Rights The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. with the exception of a very few covers, family friendly as well (which is more than I can say for most fashions mags).A yellow cardigan is draped over a peacock-patterned turquoise dress; frilly multicoloured socks poke out over maroon Skechers. Even if you have no interest in the fashion industry, this periodical has covered some of the biggest issues and controversies of modern age. When you think of the most iconic magazine in the world, no matter who you are or your interests, Vogue magazine almost always comes to mind.