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The first issue of Vogue was published in the United States in 1892 by an Arthur Baldwin Turnure.
In 1905 Condé Nast purchased Vogue, and, while maintaining its heritage of elitism, shifted its focus to solely women’s fashion – discarding its male readership.
In 1909 the magazine was acquired by Conde Naste Publishers.
In 1916, when the First World War made impossible Vogue deliveries to the Old World, the printing was started in England.
July 1932 saw American Vogue publish its first colour photography on the cover of the magazine.
In July 1932, American Vogue placed its first color photograph on the cover of the magazine.
In 1932, for example, Vogue became one of the first magazines to print a colour photo on its cover.
In 1961, Condè Nast contacted the owner of the magazine Novità because they wanted to invest in a fashion magazine.
Diana Vreeland joined Vogue from Harper’s Bazaar first as Associate Editor, and in December 1962, became editor-in-chief.
In 1966, Franco Sartori was appointed as the first editor-in-chief and under his leadership he changed the name from Vogue & Novità to Vogue Italia, being the May 1966 issue the first issue under the new name.
In 1967, at the height of her career as one of the country’s most-photographed models, she opened her own modeling agency.
In August 1974, they were the first magazine to put an African American model on the cover.
Cooper’s business success was showcased when her photo appeared on the cover of Fortune magazine’s December 1979 issue; she had become one of the few women ever to appear on the cover alone.
In August 1998, when economic crisis broke out in Russia, the advertisements of a new magazine with Keith Moss and Amber Valetta on its cover, and the headline logo “Finally in Russia” was perceived by many as a bad joke.
The first cover of Russian VOGUE, September 1998
First issue of Russian Vogue was released in September 1998.
In 2003 she and the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) jointly inaugurated the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, which offered financial support and business mentoring to the “next generation” of American fashion designers.
Since its creation in 2008, Vogue’s YouTube channel has acquired 9 million subscribers and has accumulated over 2 billion views.
She joined Drapers in 2014 from a background of social policy journalism.
Vogue has been able to achieve enormous success in areas beyond print as well. It’s 73 question series created by Joe Sabia in 2014 has featured celebrities such as Anna Wintour herself, Blake Lively, Priyanka Chopra, Zac Efron, and countless more.
And in September 2018, the biggest issue of the year, Tyler Mitchell became the first African American to shoot a Vogue cover.
Prior, she helped launch Glossy, an online fashion trade, and served as its managing editor until 2018.
Vogue Business is an online fashion industry publication launched in January 2019.
Maghan McDowell has been innovation editor at Vogue Business since January 2019.
Emily Forkan is managing editor of Vogue Business, after holding positions as chief sub-editor and senior sub-editor since joining the team in April 2019.
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