# data[].attributes.headline
history of vogue and its ability to adapt 2000

# data[].attributes.subject
history of vogue and its ability to adapt 2000

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Sarah Jessica Parker Narrates the 2000s in Vogue | Vogue by the Decade

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
As Vogue celebrates its 125th year, we look back at the history of fashion, and the magazine, in a series of "five points" videos by decade, narrated by the stylish Sarah Jessica Parker. In the above episode, we take a glimpse at the 2000s, when we started obsessively caring what celebrities wore, and played with mixing high and low in individualistic combinations.

# data[].attributes.headline
fashion in the 50s and how vogue help there views to archive it 

# data[].attributes.subject
fashion in the 50s and how vogue help there views to archive it 

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
As Vogue celebrates its 125th year, we look back at the history of fashion, and the magazine, in a series of "five points" videos by decade, narrated by the stylish Sarah Jessica Parker.

The '50s in Vogue could almost be summed up by the image of Jean Patchett's sweeping eyebrow or the concave curve of Sunny Harnett's vanishing waist, as current events and designers' dreams changed the way the world, and women, looked.

COUTUREIt was the Golden Age of Haute Couture, a time when the fashion legacies we reference today were established by then-new designers-Christian Dior, Pierre Balmain, Hubert de Givenchy, and Cristóbal Balenciaga-and Coco Chanel who returned to the fashion world after an extended sabbatical. On assignment for Vogue in 1950, Irving Penn photographed the couture collections for the first time. His pictures, graphic and pure, continue to inform how we view and appreciate the art of fashion.

SHAPE Though hyper-feminine and often embellished, waist-whittling fashions were primarily about shape. Two silhouettes prevailed, the New Look hourglass that featured a full skirt and stem-like middle, and a glove-fitted slim line that emphasized a tiny midriff.

These were shapes that were, generally speaking, not found in nature and mostly sculpted using elaborate underpinnings. "Controlling interests," such as corsets, waist garters, and girdles, were the tools women used to reconfigure their curves.

DIETDieting was another way women achieved "the shape of the new fashion." The magazine continued to adapt its proprietary "Diet X," first introduced just before the mid-century, as well as hyping regimes like the "new cottage cheese," "psychological," "deuces wild" and "grape" diets. Vogue also gathered a panel of experts called the Diet Authority to weigh in on healthful approaches to weight loss.

COLLECTIONSAs waistlines grew slimmer, postwar expansion continued. The scope of the fashion world was becoming bigger and better as well; the first organized fashion shows were arranged in New York City and Italy, and Vogue reported on presentations in Spain, Belgium, and Ireland, too.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
The History of '50s Fashion in Vogue, Narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
As Vogue celebrates its 125th year, we look back at the history of fashion, and the magazine, in a series of "five points" videos by decade, narrated by the stylish Sarah Jessica Parker.

# data[].attributes.headline
History of how vogue magazine  was published

# data[].attributes.subject
History of how vogue magazine  was published

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
As Vogue celebrates its 125th year, we look back at the history of fashion, and the magazine, in a series of "five point" videos by decade, narrated by the stylish Sarah Jessica Parker. In the above episode, we take a look back at the first years of the magazine which was first published in 1892.

Start-up wasn't part of the lexicon in 1892 when started a weekly journal of fashion and society called Vogue, but the concept of getting by with a little help from your friends was familiar to an Ivy-educated club man.
IN THE BEGINNING
Arthur Baldwin Turnure, a type-mad Princeton grad and a cofounder of the Grolier Club, launched Vogue in 1892 as "a dignified authentic journal of society, fashion, and the ceremonial side of life." Over time, fashion-for both men and women-was to occupy more and more space in this magazine created by and for the leisure class. Vogue was, noted one editor, "the dernier cri of the week, thanks to the people who published it, who happened to know better than anyone else what was going to be accepted by the people who mattered." These were defined as "gentlemen and gentlewomen" and, said Turnure, "it was to the requirements of this class [the magazine's] energies and resources shall conform."

Besides its snob appeal, Vogue's niche appeal was the draw for crackerjack publisher Condé Nast, who purchased it in 1909. Nast is credited with developing the then revolutionary concept of class, or special interest publication, which valued engagement over circulation, and which is taken for granted today.
LUMPS, BUMPS, AND HUMPS
According to Edna Woolman Chase, a nearly-60-year veteran of Vogue, the magazine's animal-loving first editor, Josephine Redding "violently disapproved" of the fashions of her day. "Humps," Redding wrote. "Women today are all covered with humps. Big humpy sleeves, humps on their hips, humps on their behinds, it's nonsense." To the modern eye, the corseted turn-of-the-century S-curve or pouter pigeon silhouette can seem both torturous and impossible: The top and bottom halves of the body seemed to be entirely independent of each other, save for a tenuous connection at an miniscule middle. Dominant for about a decade, this long, sinuous line was balanced by upswept hair and much embellished picture hats shading makeup-free faces.
READY FOR ACTION
The gentlewoman might not have struggled with need, but she did contend with expectations, of sex and station as well as the restrictions of dress. Designers dreamed up outfits for seemingly every conceivable activity: There were street and visiting gowns; cloaks for the opera and dishabille for afternoon at home. . . . Her life was constricted, but it was not static; nor was it purely social: sport was an important part of her life. Cover and interior illustrations show her riding sidesaddle, canoeing, skating, bathing, golfing. In fact, she looked most modern in that foolproof combo of shirtwaist and skirt.
REINVENTING THE WHEEL
The upwardly mobile woman, to whom Vogue catered, was not only sporty, she was addicted to speed. The golden age of the bicycle roughly coincides with the debut of the magazine, and the Vogue girl was an early enthusiast of this newfangled contraption, as she also became of the automobile.
THE WELL-DRESSED MAN
"That it is not necessary for the man as well as the women to have due regard for appearances, no one seriously contends," noted Vogue when it turned 10. Though Edna Woolman Chase, who signed on in 1895, would grumble that during Turnure's tenure "fashion got short shrift besides the men's interest, such as sports and club news," the magazine's interest in men's dress, addressed in such regular columns like "As Seen by Him" and "The Well-Dressed Man" was touted as a point of distinction. "No other periodical of general circulation" it was claimed, sustained such an interest, one that was evident from the beginning: The cover of the second issue was the first of many to feature a dapper couple; others featured only men.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Sarah Jessica Parker Narrates the First Years of Fashion in Vogue, Starting in 1892

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
As Vogue celebrates its 125th year, we look back at the history of fashion, and the magazine, in a series of "five point" videos by decade, narrated by the stylish Sarah Jessica Parker. In the above episode, we take a look back at the first years of the magazine which was first published in 1892.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
It's a major birthday for a publishing institution that has kept generations up-to-date on what fashions are IN VOGUE. With Serena Altschul this morning, we'll look back:

It's known as fashion's Bible - Vogue magazine, where the elite and the aspiring alike turn for the style of the moment, and the past.

And nothing may mean more in fashion than landing on the cover of Vogue.

"To be in Vogue has to mean something," said Anna Wintour, who has been Vogue's editor-in-chief for 23 years. "It's an endorsement. It's a validation. "

With her signature bob haircut and dark sunglasses, Wintour is considered the most powerful figure in fashion.

When asked what a good cover should do, Wintour replied, "A cover's a poster. It has to look like Vogue. It has to be a strong image. It has to be seductive."

"Can being on the cover of Vogue change a model's career?" asked Altschul.

"It certainly will make everybody take notice of you in a way that they haven't before."

Now the magazine is taking note of its famous covers for its 120th anniversary in 2012.

Wintour, contributor Dodie Kazanjian and international editor-at-large Hamish Bowles have compiled a book of the magazine's most famous covers.

Started as a weekly magazine for high society New Yorkers, early Vogue covers featured well-polished young women known as "Gibson girls," named after the illustrator who created the look.

"A Vogue cover really holds a mirror up to its time," said Bowles.

In 1909, publishing big shot Conde Nast bought Vogue, and used the cover to reach a wider upscale audience.

"Suddenly you see a totally different atmosphere," said Bowles. "You have this explosion of color for a start - really wonderful world-class illustrators start to produce covers which become kind of abstract and fanciful, and certainly aspirational."

Art deco and the jazz age inspired covers in the coming years, but the real change came in 1932 with the first color photo cover by photography pioneer Edward Steichen.

Since then, legendary photographers like Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn and Annie Liebovitz have shot the most famous cover in the fashion.

"I like to think they all have the Vogue stamp, but I don't like the idea of them all looking identical," Wintour said.

By the '70s and '80s, many covers had come to look identical. It was time for a change.

So when the British-born mother of two took over American Vogue in 1988 after running the U.K. version, Wintour turned the fashion world upside-down . . . starting with her very first cover.

"It was totally unplanned," she said.

Wintour used an image never intended for the cover, featuring an Israeli model wearing jeans.

"And I just said, 'Well, let's just try this.' And off we went. It was just very natural. To me it just said, 'This is something new. This is something different.' And I remember the printers called us up because they thought we'd made a mistake - just wanting to check that that actually WAS the cover!"

"It was really radical," said Bowles. "In every way, it broke every kind of prescribed boundary and rule that had existed up 'til then."

Wintour continued to push boundaries by putting celebrities on the cover instead of supermodels - a revolutionary move at the time.

"I remember getting quite a bit of criticism for my first Madonna cover - you know, 'She's not in vogue, she'll never sell,'" recalled Wintour. "It was a little bit risky."

But sales on newsstands shot up, Wintour said. "Something extraordinary, like 40 percent. So that was an eye-opener to all of us."

"But you knew something? Or you just followed your instinct?" asked Altschul.

"I didn't know anything," Wintour said. "I never pay any attention. I'm sure it's not such a good way to be, but I don't really follow market research. And in the end I do respond to my own instincts. Sometimes they're successful, and obviously sometimes they're not. But you have to, I think, remain true to what you believe in."

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
It's a major birthday for a publishing institution that has kept generations up-to-date on what fashions are IN VOGUE. With Serena Altschul this morning, we'll look back: It's known as fashion's Bible - Vogue magazine, where the elite and the aspiring alike turn for the style of the moment, and the past.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Tonight, in celebration of our 130th anniversary, Vogue will host a fashion show and street fair the likes of which have never been seen. It's not the first time that the brand has organized such an event, however. In November 1914, 108 years ago during the First World War, a Fashion Fête was orchestrated to raise money for the Committee of Mercy, supporting women and children in areas of conflict.

Since its founding, Vogue has never been just about the rise and fall of hemlines, but focused on cultural and societal shifts as well. For many years, the Vogue covers featured colorful "storytelling" pictures by leading illustrators that romanced "the woman of leisure" as she followed the sun, hit the slopes, and lived for the night. Once fashion photography was deemed an art circa the mid-1930s, the magazine began greeting its reader with stylized snaps of real-life beauties and professional models. Eventually it began showcasing actors ( Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie, Lupita Nyong'o) and entertainers (Cher, Beyoncé, Rihanna). We expect to see more than a few boldfacers tonight.

At 130 years young, we've taken a nostalgic look back at the history of the brand and pulled out some fun facts. Here, Vogue by the numbers.

2897 . . . and counting
Number of issues of Vogue published (through October 2022).
Founded in 1892 as "a dignified authentic journal of society, fashion, and the ceremonial side of life," Vogue was a weekly for the first 17 years of its existence. One of the first changes Condé Nast made after acquiring the magazine in 1909 was to make it a biweekly publication. For 25 years (from 1948-1972), Vogue was published 20 times a year, becoming a monthly in 1973.

916
Number of pages in the magazine's largest issue, to date.
For the September 2012 issue, with a Marc Jacobs-clad Lady Gaga on the cover, the magazine was more than an inch thick, and weighed between 4.2033 and 4.6896 pounds (depending on the edition).

90
Number of dogs that have appeared on Vogue's cover.
Vida, Gisele Bündchen's late Yorkie, was the most recent canine to have the distinction (in December 2001). The magazine's first editor, Josephine Redding, who served from 1892 until 1900 and is credited with naming the publication, was known to prefer animals to fashion. "During her regime," Edna Woolman Chase recounted in her memoirs, "the pages of Vogue barked, meowed, cheeped, and roared with accounts of animal life." On several occasions, the cover went to the dogs, literally.

82
Years since the first Hollywood star appeared on the cover.
Vogue 's appreciation of the dramatic arts is as long as its history, however. In 1901 (when movies were still silent) the cleft-chinned Shakespearean stage actress Julia Marlowe was featured. Thirty-nine years later, in 1940, Gene Tierney, who had just made the transition from the stage to film was the first Hollywood star to be photographed for the cover. Models dominated as covergirls right up until 2002, the first year that more actors than mannequins were tapped for the honor.

26
Times Lauren Hutton has appeared on the cover of Vogue.
Hutton's (enduring) all-American appeal is such that three of Vogue's editors-Diana Vreeland, Grace Mirabella, and Anna Wintour-chose this multifaceted beauty to be the face of magazine. "Lauren is, in fact, Tom Sawyer, 1973," wrote Kate Lloyd in that same year. "She is adventurous, imaginative, jaunty, ethical in an old-fashioned Golden Rule fashion, direct, and brave. She is impetuous, too."

2
Number of princesses to cover Vogue.
Royal fascination is part of Vogue 's DNA. The magazine was founded, after all, during the Gilded Age when "dollar princesses"-wealthy American women who married titled foreigners-were big news. Countess Divonne, née Florence Audenried, made a cover appearance in 1893, but the most famous of these brides was Consuelo Vanderbilt. Her 1895 wedding to the Duke of Marlborough has been described as "the great romantic event . . . of the entire fin de siècle era"-no matter that the bride cried herself down the aisle, the marriage having been arranged by her mother. The magazine devoted a cover to Vanderbilt's bridesmaids' dresses, and many interior pages to the event. Much later, in 1971, the Princess of Monaco, born Grace Kelly in Philadelphia, was featured, as was the most photographed woman in the world, Princess Diana, in 1993.

1
Number of families depicted in three generations on the cover of Vogue.
Annie Leibovitz photographed "The Presley Women": Priscilla and Lisa Marie, and the latter's daughter, Riley Keough-who was nominated for a 2017 Golden Globes award-for the August 2004 cover.

15
Number of group model covers.
Cast with Supers or Instagirls (who were introduced on the September 2014 cover), Vogue loves a more the merrier model cover. The precedent for which was set by an editorial, "12 Beauties: The most photographed models in America," photographed by Irving Penn for the May 1, 1947 issue. It's on this shoot that Penn met Lisa Fonssagrives, who he married.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
At 130 years young, we've taken a nostalgic look back at the history of the brand and pulled out some fun facts. Here, Vogue by the numbers.