Vogue

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Vogue is an American monthly fashion and lifestyle magazinecovering numerous themes, including fashion, beauty, culture, living, and runway, situated in New York. Established as weekly newspaper by Arthur Baldwin Turnure, Vogue released its its first issue on December 17, 1892.[1] The main issue was distributed with a cover cost of a dime (identical to $2.85 in 2019), and its mean to praise "the formal side of life"; one that "draws in the wise just as debutante, men of issues, just as the beauty".[2]

The British Vogue, dispatched in 1916, was the primary global release, while the Italian version Vogue Italia has been known as the top design magazine. Vogue's August 1974 cover was the first to picture an African American lady, with Beverly Johnson as the model.[3] Presently, there are 26 international editions of Vogue.

In July 1988, Anna Wintour became editor of Vogue and promptly changed Vogue covers by underlining the woman’s body, rather than just her face, as well as by frequentlyincluding Hollywood entertainers rather than customary fashion models, in this manner starting a global pattern. She is also the one who established Teen Vogue (2003) and Men’s Vogue (2005–2008) in the United States.[4]

Controversies

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In April 2008, American Vogue included a cover photograph by picture taker Annie Leibovitz of Gisele Bündchen and basketball player LeBron James.This was the third time that Vogue highlighted a male on the cover of the American issue, and with James as the first in which the man was black and an athlete. Some people criticized the cover as a biased portrayal of James since his posture with Bündchen was suggestive of a poster for the film King Kong. Further analysis emerged when the site Watching the Watchers investigated the photograph close by the World War I recruitment banner titled Destroy This Mad Brute.[5]

In October 2020, a few Black writers who have worked with Anna Wintour say she has developed a bigoted culture at Vogue, gotten over cultural appropriation, and utilized hostile language in emails. Another examination from the New York Times dives into the new push for diversity at Vogue, and investigates whether these endeavors are "past the point of no return." The Times examination depicts how Wintour, the long-lasting editor-in-chief of Vogue and artistic director at Condé Nast, is blamed for empowering a "slim, rich and white" standard of beauty — in the pages of the magazine and beyond, given her colossal impact in the fashion industry.[6]

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