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6 unusual facts about Vogue


Diego Bowie

This creation is a deconstructed vision derived from years of education from his collection of over 200 Vogue magazines, and some L'Officiel, Harper's Bazaar, Numéro, Purple (magazine) amongst other editions that gave life to his ingrained aesthetics.

Eugenia Kim

She is regularly featured in fashion publications such as Vogue, W Magazine, ELLE, and Harper's Bazaar.

Kathryn Abbe

By 1942 she was working for Vogue under Toni Frissell; she left the magazine and became a professional freelance photographer in 1944 - one of few women to hold the position at the time.

Abbe won Vogue magazine's Prix de Paris photography award in 1941.

Lawrence Fried

Lawrence Fried (b.June 28, 1926 – d.1983), was an American photo-journalists, whose work appeared in Newsweek, The Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times, Vogue, Collier's, and Parade Magazine.

Paula Wolfert

Jeffrey Steingarten, food critic for Vogue, wrote: "Paula is part anthropologist, part amateur scholar. She works in a way that's both sensual and scholarly. She isn't content until she knows not only how your olives were made, but also where you got them, what you did with them, what else you did with them, and whether your friends are doing the same thing. And then she'll call your friends, too."


Bellville Sassoon

Jackie Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Jerry Hall, Anita Baker, Melanie Griffith, Helen Mirren, Ivana Trump, Madonna, Jada Collins and Melissa Brown and his designs have appeared on the covers of Vogue and Harper's Magazine.

Bill Gibb

Beatrix Miller of Vogue selected one of Gibb's designs for Baccarat, a pleated tartan skirt and printed blouse worn with a Kaffe Fassett knitted waistcoat, as the 1970 Dress of the Year.

Carmen Busquets

Busquets was included in the Fashion’s New Order list alongside Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet and fashion mogul Bernard Arnault.

Celia Brayfield

She won a place at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, West London, an academic public school with a literary and political tradition; alumnae include the writers Monica Dickens, Selina Hastings, Flora Fraser; Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman; the actors Emily Mortimer, Jennifer Saunders, Joely Richardson and Rachel Weisz; and the politicians Harriet Harman and Shirley Williams.

Charlotte Tilbury

Charlotte now works with top photographers including Mario Testino and Mert and Marcus; supermodels such as Kate Moss and Gisele Bündchen; and magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, LOVE and V Magazine.

Château de Commarin

The Château de Commarin in the commune of Commarin in the Côte-d'Or département, Burgundy, France, has passed through 26 generations in the same family; never sold, though it has often passed through heiresses, Commarin today is a seat of the comte de Vogüé.

Comedy of humours

The comedy of humours owes something to earlier vernacular comedy but more to a desire to imitate the classical comedy of Plautus and Terence and to combat the vogue of romantic comedy, as developed by William Shakespeare.

Corinne Day

In 1993, Day was commissioned by Alexandra Shulman to photographed Moss for the June issue of the British edition of Vogue.

Daniela Amavia

--In what? Films? Commercials? Stage productions?--> While studying to be an actress, she also modeled, doing runway work in Paris, France for Chanel and Dior, spokesmodel work for Chloé, and cover work for Vogue, Elle, and Femme.

Dolly Varden trout

My grandmother, then a young girl of 15 or 16, had been reading Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge in which there appears a character named Dolly Varden; also the vogue in fashion for women at that time (middle 1870s) was called "Dolly Varden", a dress of sheer figured muslin worn over a bright-colored petticoat.

Ede Szigligeti

He supported himself for the next few years precariously enough, earning as le did little more than twelve florins a month, but at the same time he sedulously devoted himself to the theatre and sketched several plays, which differed so completely from the "original" plays then in vogue (The Played-out Trick actually appeared upon the boards) that they attracted the attention of such connoisseurs as Vorosmarty and Bajza who warmly encouraged the young writer.

Ethel McClellan Plummer

She worked as an illustrator for various magazines, including Life, Vogue, Shadowlands, and Vanity Fair.

Fashion Pack

Names of Vogue, Interview and Ritz magazines appear here as well as names of trendy French venues Maxim's and Chez Régine.

François Gérard

This extraordinary vogue was due partly to the charm of his manner and conversation, for his salon was as much frequented as his studio; Madame de Staël, George Canning, Talleyrand, the Duke of Wellington, have all borne witness to the attraction of his society.

Gail Simmons

Prior to joining Food & Wine, Gail was the special events manager for chef Daniel Boulud’s restaurant empire and worked for food critic Jeffrey Steingarten at Vogue.

Gaspard Ulliel

In 2007, he appeared on the cover of the January issue of French Vogue with supermodel Doutzen Kroes.

Gerda Wegener

After moving to Paris in 1912, she found much success both as a painter and as illustrator for Vogue, La Vie Parisienne, Fantasio, and many other magazines.

Grace Coddington

Two years after the accident, at the age of 28, she was interviewed by British Vogue's Editor, Beatrix Miller, and was employed as a Junior Editor.

Jacques Bourboulon

In 1967 he started as a fashion photographer, publishing in Vogue and working for the fashion designers Dior, Féraud, and Carven.

James E. Ferrell

With Elizabeth J. Ferrell he has created an important archive of medieval manuscripts including the Vogüé codex of Guillaume de Machaut, currently on loan to Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University.

Jean-Louis de Marne

He concentrated on landscape and genre painting, in which he was greatly influenced by such 17th century Dutch masters as Aelbert Cuyp, the van Ostade brothers, Paulus Potter, Adriaen van de Velde and Karel Dujardin, all artists enjoying a tremendous vogue and high prices in Paris at that time.

John Gregory Dunne

He met Joan Didion in New York in the 1950s, where she was an editor at Vogue.

John S. Marmaduke

Undeterred, Marmaduke campaigned four years later for Governor of Missouri at a time when public opinion had changed, and railroad reform and regulation became more in vogue.

Kristin Prim

Since then, she has been featured in Exit Magazine, ELLE Italia, ELLE Korea, The Daily Mail, The Times, The Guardian, Refinery29, Fashion TV, The Huffington Post, Time Out New York, Vogue Italia, Guest of a Guest, Fashion Indie, Folha de S. Paulo, Dolly Magazine, international Vogues and ELLEs, etc. for her prominent personal style.

Lakmé

Like other French operas of the period, Lakmé captures the ambience of the Orient seen through Western eyes, which was periodically in vogue during the latter part of the nineteenth century and in line with other operatic works such as Bizet's The Pearl Fishers and Massenet's Le roi de Lahore.

Lydia Sargent

Her plays include "I Read About My Death In Vogue Magazine" and "Playbook" with Maxine Klein and Howard Zinn.

Marlon Teixeira

Alongside this he has appeared in high fashion editorials for GQ, Vogue Espana, V, Elle, W magazine with Ginnifer Goodwin and Vanity Fair with Shakira.

Melanie Pullen

Pullen's photographic series have also been featured in numerous publications and broadcasts including: San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times Magazine, LA Times, ArtReview, The London Independent on Sunday Review, Vogue, Elle, Fortune, W, GQ, RollingStone, Nylon, Photo, Art Forum, National Public Radio, CBS Radio and CBS News.

Nena von Schlebrügge

In 1955 at the age of 14 Nena was discovered by Vogue photographer Norman Parkinson when he was on a tour in Stockholm, Sweden.

Nicknames of Atlanta

The term "SWATS" came into vogue around 1996, and was initially made popular by LaFace Records artist OutKast and Goodie Mob.

Nicolai Hartmann

His early work in the philosophy of biology has been cited in modern discussions of genomics and cloning, and his views on consciousness and free will are currently in vogue among contributors to the Journal of Consciousness Studies.

Nima Behnoud

Today celebrities such as Heidi Klum, Nicky Hilton, Jim Carrey, Pras of Fugees and Kevin Spacey wear these T-Shirts and major publications including Vogue, Maxim, Washington Times have written about NIMANY.

Noot Seear

Seear has graced the cover of Elle Germany, Amica (Italy), D (Italy) and Vogue Nippon and has been photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, Mario Sorrenti and Paolo Roversi.

Patrick Wintour

Wintour's sister Anna is the editor of American Vogue, while his father, Charles, was editor of the Evening Standard, and his brother Jim arranged equestrian events at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke

With his brother, Charles Yorke, he was one of the chief contributors to Athenian Letters; or the Epistolary Correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War (4 vols., London, 1741), a work that for many years had a considerable vogue and went through several editions.

Pierre-Jules Mêne

Mêne produced a number of animal sculptures, mainly of domestic animals including horses, cows and bulls, sheep and goats which were in vogue during the Second Empire.

Ron Galotti

While at Vogue, he and his editor in chief, Anna Wintour, once retaliated against an anti-fur protest by PETA outside the Condé Nast offices during the company's annual Christmas party by sending down a plate of roast beef.

Sadi Ranson

After working at Conde Nast Publications, Ranson attended Boston University, returning to Conde Nast for several summers to work as a fashion assistant at Vogue magazine where she worked for Jade Hobson and Anna Wintour as well as other editors under the direction of then editor Grace Mirabella.

Skylight Group

Skylight Group’s spaces have been a location for editorial and advertising clients such as Vogue, Christian Dior, Harper’s Bazaar and the Louis Vuitton campaign featuring Madonna.

Tatiana Lyadockrina

During the same year she was featured in both Max Mara and Vivienne Westwood spring advertisements and the from June 2006 and onward have appeared in Japanese language Vogue, Juicy Couture book and Paule Ka ad.

The Desert Song

Many tales romanticizing Arab North Africa were in vogue, including Beau Geste and The Son of the Sheik.

Tom Palumbo

He was a staff photographer of Vogue from 1959 until 1962 and at Harper's Bazaar from 1953 until 1959, where he worked with the art directors Alex Liberman and Alexey Brodovitch.


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