Kate Moss JERRY HALL Jean Patchett IRVING PENN Cindy Crawford KYLIE Beaton VOGUE

Description: Rare English Vogue magazine from the UK. Contents include- Collector's Birthday Issue - this anniversary issue is a keepsake - even the cover on its own is a piece of history. When Alexandra Shulman was faced with the idea of celebrating Vogue's 90th anniversary, she had to come up with something truly iconic. Her reputation for collectible, award-winning covers – most notably her mirrored Millennium issue and the gold cover featuring Nick Knight's silhouette of Kate Moss – meant that this one was really a chance to do something spectacular. And it is just that – 90 covers reproduced on a four-page, gatefold cutout-and-keep cover that itself is an illustration of the history of the world's most fashionable magazine. Covers shown start during the art deco era from the 1910's, and models include - Linda Evangelista, Nadja Auermann, Helena Christensen, Natasha Vojnovic, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, Meghan Douglas, Stephanie Seymour, Sienna Miller, Kate Moss, Jean Shrimpton, Jean Patchet and Jerry Hall (all on the very front cover). The second, third and fourth pages of the fold out cover stars include - Twiggy, Liz Hurley, Bianca Jagger, Naomi Campbell, Princess Diana, Uma Thurman, Lily Cole and Pattie Boyd. "The world into which British Vogue was born was very different from today," writes Alexandra Schulman in her editor's letter. "In 1916 Britain was in the middle of World War I. It seems a curious time to launch a fashion magazine, but British Vogue was an immediate success. Fast forward, and I sit in my London office with a telephone, computer, mobile phone, Blackberry, fax machine, halogen lighting, the continuous rumble of traffic outside, a television, radio, CDs and central heating. Today, I drove to work in my own car, ate a takeaway salad, drank bottled water and got cash from a hole in the wall – just a few things which could not have been experienced, or possibly even imagined, by Elspeth Champcommunal, the first editor of British Vogue. Ninety years of Vogue contributors – "A celebration of Vogue writers, editors and photographers" – features tributes to Grace Coddington, Cecil Beaton, Aldous Huxley, Nancy Mitford, David Bailey, Virginia Woolf, Mario Testino and Truman Capote. "Before coming [to Morocco] you should do three things," wrote Capote in February 1950. "Be inoculated for typhoid, withdraw your savings from the bank and say goodbye to your friends – heaven knows when you will see them again." The issue also gives the history of the magazine: "William Condé Nast bought US Vogue in 1909 and was president and publisher until his death in 1942. His criterion was that Vogue should be authoritative in all areas, and that it should appeal to people with money but who believed in taste, not mass popularity. Losing money in the 1929 crash, Nast sold part of the company to press baron Lord Camrose. In 1959 Samuel I. Newhouse became publisher and, in 1967, proprietor of the Condé Nast Group. He was succeeded by S.I. Newhouse Jr." Vogue even has its own birthday cake: a circular creation made up of issues of the magazine standing up with models of various different eras, fashioned from gorgeous icing, standing between them. "Patisserie artist Rachel Mount was commissioned to create one of her elaborate edible sculptures for Vogue's birthday. A lemon buttercream sponge decorated in hand-modelled sugar, the sculpture reflects the Vogue team's twin passions: fashion and cake." Vogue staff then and now are compared, too: "Where once the workforce wore twinsets, pearls and crisp skirts, now anything goes – from jeans and T-shirts to cocktail dresses." In 1958, Junior editor Cherry Huggins was wearing "a black linen sheath dress with gloves and rows of pearls", whereas, more recently, Charlotte Sinclair wears an altogether more modern take on monochrome." Mrs Exeter, the character who, "long before Trinny and Susannah appeared, was dispensing fashion counsel to ladies of a certain age", returns "to offer her thoughts on party dressing", while some of the most important designer pieces of the last 90 years, including late-Fifties haute couture Balenciaga and the Ossie Clark dress that Celia Birtwell wore in David Hockney's "Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy", are tracked down for a modern day shoot by Craig McDean. "Vogue may be most famous for its fashion coverage, but that hasn't stopped us reporting on everything from world travel to world wars…" Robin Muir focuses on the magazine's coverage of women's work during the war and the dawn of victory in 1918, black culture in 1925, "Speed, the new vice" in 1925, Coronation Day in 1937, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in 1937, the outbreak of war in 1939, Churchill in 1941 and Princess Elizabeth in 1943. The big, history-making shoots? Mario Testino's Welcome To Our World captures the photographers, the models, the thoroughbreds, the taste-makers (Nigella Lawson and Gordon Ramsay having a food fight), the gardeners, the exhibitionists, the dancers, the musicians, the directors, the actors and the designers of today, plus Nick Knight photographs "the clothes that changed our lives" on Kate Moss – of course: the LBD, the mini, the trouser suit, tights, the bikini, the bra, the trainers, denim, uniform, the trench, leather and high heels.. We have most of the magazines pictured on the cover of this birthday issue - please contact us if you're looking for any Vogue in particular and we will list it for you. Heavy issue. Shipping includes tracking and insurance. We are happy to combine orders and pass on the savings to you. To purchase more than one item from our shop and receive combined postage discounts, please add all the items you would like to the shopping basket, but do not proceed to checkout. Then click on the blue 'Request Total From Seller' link and we will email an invoice with reduced postage. Sometimes this only works on a desktop browser and not on a mobile phone. Excellent condition. Stored in a protective Mylar sleeve acid-free archive bag. Paypal preferred. 120712_6811 B82

Price: 95 GBP

Location: London

End Time: 2025-02-01T15:02:38.000Z

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