Explore Vogue's history in our new Condé Nast digital archive

Jun 11, 2024

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Ivan Shaw

Condé Nast’s Corporate Photography Director

For the archetypal time, Condé Nast opens the doors to the Vogue archive. In collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, the worlds of fashion, design, past and civilization travel to beingness with implicit 15,000 newly-digitized colour images spanning much than 3 decades and six 100 issues. Today, these images are unrecorded online for the archetypal clip for everyone to explore, on with an immersive accumulation to assistance you acquisition the archive for yourself astatine goo.gle/voguearchive.

To assistance archer the story, the Vogue and Condé Nast Archive teams person created implicit 30 stories that not lone instrumentality you done the past of the magazine, but besides present you to immoderate of Vogue’s astir important photographers, illustrators and models – specified arsenic Helen Dryden, Arthur Elgort, Beverly Johnson, Patti Hansen and Horst P. Horst. The task besides highlights immoderate of the pivotal moments successful manner during the twentieth period – including however the rise of the moving pistillate changed manner history.

In my relation arsenic Condé Nast’s Corporate Photography Director (and erstwhile Photography Director of Vogue), I’ve worked with the archive’s Visual Editor, Isaac Lobel, to prime immoderate of their favourite photographs and stories. Vogue’s Archive Editor, Laird Borelli-Persson, does a heavy dive connected the magazine’s aboriginal illustrators, arsenic good arsenic highlighting immoderate of her favourite manner moments, including the New Look and the Miniskirt.

To assistance get you started, present are immoderate of our favourite stories.

Iconic photographers

• Gordon Parks, 1 of the astir prolific and influential photographers of the twentieth century, maintained a adjacent narration with Condé Nast’s Editorial Director, Alexander Liberman implicit galore decades. Learn astir Parks’ work for Vogue during the 1960s.
• Frances McLaughlin-Gill was 1 of Vogue’s archetypal pistillate photographers. Isaac Lobel introduces you to “Frannie,” who was mentored by Toni Frissell, different aboriginal pistillate lensman for the magazine, and invites you to dive into the satellite of mid-century fashion done the lens of 1 of Vogue's astir important contributors.
• Cecil Beaton was 1 of Condé Nast longest and astir prolific contributors, moving for Vogue crossed 5 decades. Although helium started his vocation successful achromatic and white, helium was a earthy with colour arsenic helium was not lone a photographer, but besides a painter, costume decorator and interior decorator. Experience the colorful satellite of Cecil Beaton.

• Vogue’s Great Illustrators. Before determination were large photographers moving for Vogue, the pages were filled with the superb drawings of immoderate of the large illustrators of the day. Laird Borrelli-Persson showcases immoderate of their champion enactment and introduces america to immoderate of the astir originative talents during the aboriginal years of the magazine.
• Swans Of Vogue. The caller bid FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans brought to beingness writer Truman Capote’s narration with stars of the New York scene. Some of Ivan’s favourite Vogue images are of women from the series, similar Babe Paley and Carolina Herrera, arsenic good arsenic a fewer different iconic women of the printed leafage that you mightiness beryllium little acquainted with. Discover each of these large ladies.
• Dance and Fashion. Whether it’s ballet, plaything oregon the tango, creation and manner person ever had an innate connection. Laird Borrelli-Persson takes america connected to the signifier and down the scenes, charting the humanities transportation betwixt creation costumes and manner with designers similar Coco Chanel and Paul Poiret.

For anyone funny successful manner photography, plan and mag publishing, the Condé Nast Archive connected Google Arts & Culture volition beryllium the indispensable destination to larn astir the radical and moments that made manner past and helped signifier our world. It’s a spot to perceive the stories down the imagemakers, designers, models, writers and personalities that helped thrust civilization for implicit 100 years. Discover much astatine goo.gle/voguearchive.