Industry News: Vogue puts its 120-year history online

It’s known as fashion’s Bible – Vogue magazine, where the elite and the aspiring alike turn for the style of the moment, and the past. And nothing may mean more in fashion than landing on the cover of Vogue. Now Vogue magazine is taking note of its famous covers for its 120th anniversary in 2012.

Anna Wintour (who has been Vogue’s editor-in-chief for 23 years), contributor Dodie Kazanjian and international editor-at-large Hamish Bowles have compiled a book of the magazine’s most famous covers. Started as a weekly magazine for high society New Yorkers, early Vogue covers featured well-polished young women known as “Gibson girls,” named after the illustrator who created the look. “A Vogue cover really holds a mirror up to its time,” said Bowles. Click here to read more.

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