Publisher Description

Inventive, glamorous, gorgeous - since the beginning VOGUE has set the platinum standard for fashion magazines the world over and has become an icon in its own right. VOGUE s covers sum up the superlative visual ideals of the whole magazine. For the first time, this book brings together in one volume nearly a century of covers both illustrated and photographic. Over two hundred stunning images have been selected from an archive of more than fifteen hundred.What sets VOGUE s covers apart is that each is so bold, so beautiful and so emphatically different. They mark the course of history, chart changing fashions and ideas of beauty and hold up a mirror to the cultural and social revolutions of the twentieth century. 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. Brilliant, captivating and full of life, this is the face of the world s most influential magazine and the original style bible.

Notes

Vogue covers throughout the magazine's history, which epitomise the style, elegance and sophistication of the periodical itself and the times it reflected.

Author Biography

Robin Derrick has worked as Art Director of The Face, Italian Elle, Glamour France and Arena magazines. He now juggles his time between his role as Creative Director at Vogue and his photography commissions. Robin Muir is a writer, curator and former picture editor of Vogue.

Review

A fascinating insight into the workings of a fashion title - Financial TimesThe Ultimate fashionista's coffee-table book - The TimesNothing defines the look of the age like the cover of Vogue - Daily TelegraphA fashionista's must-have - GlamourNothing ever matched the early, elegant covers of the fashion magazine that took over the world - Independent on SundayThe book reminds you that while anyone can do fashion, nobody does it quite like Vogue - OBSERVERA fascinating insight into the workings of a fashion title - FINANCIAL TIMESThe Ultimate fashionista's coffee-table book - The TIMES

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* Vogue covers throughout the magazine's history - the epitome of elegance and sophisticated glamour

Long Description

Inventive, glamorous, gorgeous - since the beginning VOGUE has set the platinum standard for fashion magazines the world over and has become an icon in its own right. VOGUE s covers sum up the superlative visual ideals of the whole magazine. For the first time, this book brings together in one volume nearly a century of covers both illustrated and photographic. Over two hundred stunning images have been selected from an archive of more than fifteen hundred.What sets VOGUE s covers apart is that each is so bold, so beautiful and so emphatically different. They mark the course of history, chart changing fashions and ideas of beauty and hold up a mirror to the cultural and social revolutions of the twentieth century. 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. Brilliant, captivating and full of life, this is the face of the world s most influential magazine and the original style bible.

Review Quote

"Vogue Coversnever misses a step . . . a beautiful and essential piece for both the fashion and the female conscious and a monument to the evolution of 20th Century culture at large."

Promotional "Headline"

* Vogue covers throughout the magazine's history - the epitome of elegance and sophisticated glamour

Description for Sales People

The third stunning book from Vogue and the authors of UNSEEN VOGUE and PEOPLE IN VOGUE

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