Most influential women’s fashion magazine in the United Kingdom is Vogue. A Conde Nast publication, it is a British version of the New York-based magazine. Other editions of Vogue are published around the world, most notably in France and Italy.
As well as publishing articles on fashion the magazine addresses culture in its widest sense (politics, literature, people) and has a distinct and coherent “world view” (weltanschuung or an all-embracing idea of society and the individual’s relation to it – I have deliberately chosen a totalitarian adjective to describe the Vogue hegemony).
The magazine is a machine for creating images. Writers who write for Vogue acquire an assured reputation. People endorsed by Vogue become influential.
In 2007, British Vogue generated over £32 million in advertising revenue.
Alexandra Shulman is the editor of British Vogue. She received an OBE in 2004. She reads serious fiction, and has talked positively about the work of Rosamond Lehmann.
Above: Vogue House in Hanover Square, offices of British Vogue.
Above: window display in Fortnum & Mason featuring copies of People in Vogue – an incredible collection of photographic portraits drawn from the Vogue archives.
Above: the magazine invests heavily in good quality photography – this photograph of Madonna (outside Ashcombe House) is by Tim Walker and was reprinted in The Guardian.
More on Tim Walker: http://www.openmagazine.co.uk/pictures/tim-walker-pictures.htm
2 comments:
my daughter reads Vogue every month..it is beautiful to look at but makes me feel very poor....
And the majority of its pages are advertising! You pay £3.80 to look at advertising!
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