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Vogue 100: A Century of Style

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Vogue 100: A Century of Style

Contributors:

By (Author) Robin Muir

ISBN:

9781855147614

Publisher:

National Portrait Gallery Publications

Imprint:

National Portrait Gallery Publications

Publication Date:

1st May 2018

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Fashion and textile design
History of art

Dewey:

779.9391

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

304

Dimensions:

Width 255mm, Height 310mm

Weight:

2150g

Description

In more than 2,000 issues, British Vogue magazine has acted as a cultural barometer, putting fashion in the context of the larger world in which we live - how we dress, how we entertain, what we eat, listen to, watch, who leads us, excites us and inspires us. The century's most talented photographers, illustrators and a rtists have contributed to it. In Lee Miller it had, unexpectedly, its own war photographer; in Norman Parkinson, Cecil Beaton, David Bailey, Snowdon and Mario Testino the greatest portrait and fashion photographers of their generation; and in Beaton and Irving Penn two giants of twentieth - century photography. From 1892, American Vogue chronicled the life of beautiful people - their clothes, parties, houses and habits - and the magazine was exported for intrigued British readers. In 1916, when the First Wo rld War made trans atlantic shipments impossible, its proprietor, Cond Nast, authorised a British edition. It was an immediate success, and over the following ten decades of uninterrupted publication continued to mirror its times - the austerity and optimi sm that followed two world wars, the 'Swinging London' scene of the sixties, the radical seventies, the image - conscious eighties - and in its second century remains at the cutting edge of photography and design. Decade by decade, Vogue 100 : A Century of St yle celebrates the greatest moments in fashion, beauty and portrait photography. Illustrated throughout with well - known images, as well as th e less familiar and recently rediscovered, the book focuses on the faces that shaped the cultural landscape: from Matisse to Bacon, Freud and Hirst, from Dietrich to Paltrow, from Fred Astaire to David Beckham, from Lady Diana Cooper to Lady Diana Spencer. It features the fashion designers who defined the century - Dior , Galliano , Balenciaga, Saint Laurent, McQueen - and explores more broadly the changing form of the twentieth - century woman.

Author Bio

Robin Muir is a writer and curator, specializing in photography. He was formerly a picture editor at British Vogue and The Sunday Times Magazine. He writes frequently for the international press, and his many publications include The Worlds Most Photographed, Vogue Covers and David Bailey: Chasing Rainbows.

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