Who doesn't love a good
Vogue Issue? Little factoid about Vogue- the magazine was founded in 1892 as a weekly publication, but now
Vogue is known as a shiny monthly religious beacon of fashion musts, lifestyles choices and interest articles.
I'm sure we have all seen
The Devil Wears Prada, with Ann Hathaway & Meryl Streep, and can’t help make the associations of
Vogue to the movie and if any good devotee of
Vogue knows, the movie is a takeaway from the novel by Lauren Weisberger. Weisberger's novel is based off of the real
Vogue legend Anna Wintour, the current editor-in-chief of American
Vogue. The September Issue was a great documentary. I was perusing the Vogue website and came upon these Vintage Vogue fashion illustrations. I thought these were really fun and the images would be great framed for a ladies dressing room or powder room.
An excerpt from the
Vogue website about the fashion illustrations: “Long before the wonders of modern technology allowed us to flash forward to fashion’s future the moment it went down the runway, buyers would make the transatlantic crossing for salon presentations of the spring Mode by French houses like Worth, Poiret, Patou, and
Chanel each February, and this magazine’s intrepid staffers would join them in the serried ranks of chairs. Until photography gradually outpaced illustration, outlines of new styles (rendered in pen-and-ink or, sometimes, watercolor) appeared in the special March and April ‘Paris Openings’ issues.”
Illustrator unknown, Vogue, April 1, 1915 Pictured: Worth
Illustrator unknown, Vogue, April 1, 1921 Pictured: Poiret
Illustration by Pierre Brissaud, Vogue, April 15, 1923 Pictured: Lanvin
Illustration by Carl Oscar August Erickson, Vogue, March 15, 1933 Pictured: Chanel
Illustration by Cecil Beaton, Vogue, March 1, 1935 Pictured: Schiaparelli
Illustrator unknown, Vogue, March 1, 1936 Pictured: Lanvin
Illustration by Christian Bérard, Vogue, March 15, 1937 Pictured: Patou
Illustration by Carl Oscar August Erickson, Vogue, March 15, 1939 Pictured: Chanel
Illustration by Carl Oscar August Erickson, Vogue, March 15, 1940 Pictured: Balenciaga
Illustration by Dagmar Freuchen-Gale, Vogue, March 15, 1947 Pictured: (clockwise from top left) Paulette, Lelong, Perugia, Balmain (2)
Illustration by Alfredo Bouret, Vogue, March 15, 1953 Pictured: (top row, from left) Fath, Dior, Balenciaga, Manguin (2), Dior; (middle row, from left) Balmain, Lanvin-Castillo, M. de Rauch, Griffe, Lanvin, Manguin; (bottom row, from left) Patou, Balenciaga (2), Griffe, Jacques Fath, Dior
Illustration by Dagmar Freuchen-Gale, Vogue, March 1, 1955 Pictured: Dior
Photographed by Henry Clarke; Illustration by Dagmar Freuchen Gale, Vogue, March 15, 1957 Pictured: (from top) Nina Ricci; Chanel
Images Courteosy of
Vogue
