31Aug
2010

Doll à Mode: Vogue Editor Dolls on Auction for Charity

Ever wondered how Vogue’s editors would measure up if suddenly they were the ones on display? The next best thing might be Andrew Yang’s handmade Anna Wintour and Grace Coddington dolls.

Continue Reading →
13Aug
2010

Walter Hagen and the PGA Championship

In the world of golf, August equates with the annual playing of the PGA Championship, one of golf’s four major Grand Slam events. Coinciding with the PGA is the annual focus on the career of Walter Hagen, an all-time golf great and a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.

Continue Reading →
July 22, 2010

Gourmet’s Cartoons for Foodies

It’s been awhile since magazines like Gourmet featured cartoons between their covers. Here is a collection of clever culinary cartooning that once represented the more fun and lighthearted side of Gourmet in the 1940s and 1950s.

Continue Reading →
July 16, 2010

St. Andrews Course: a Golfing Landmark for Over 600 Years

St. Andrews Old Course in Scotland plays new, no matter how many times you’ve played it, and if you play this one course exclusively, you will learn everything there is to learn about golf. Take a tour of the historic course that’s hosting the 2010 British Open.

Continue Reading →
July 15, 2010

Artist of the Month: Arnold Genthe

Arnold Genthe was an iconic photographer with more than one hundred photographs of entertainers, politicians, and other notable persons published in Vanity Fair over a 20-year time span.

Continue Reading →
July 13, 2010

Happy Birthday, Women’s Wear Daily!

WWD turns 100 years old today. But she doesn’t look a day over 29.

Continue Reading →

Artist of the Month: Arnold Genthe

July 15, 2010 0 Comments

Arnold Genthe was an iconic photographer with more than one hundred photographs of entertainers, politicians, and other notable persons published in Vanity Fair over a 20-year time span.

Continue Reading →

Archive Feature – Hats in Vogue: A Milliner’s View (VIDEO)

September 1, 2010 1 Comment

Our registrar, Gretchen Fenston, follows up her popular “Vogue of Hats” series with a look at the hat’s changing importance in women’s fashion through the decades, accompanied by some of her favorite hat images from the Archive.

Continue Reading →

Hidden Gems: Fashionable Photocollage

June 11, 2010 0 Comments

Photocollage is one interesting way to create fantastical scenes from otherwise mundane images. Women of the late 1800s, such as those depicted in this article’s selection of historic Vogue archive images, made a whimsical hobby of photocollage long before it was widely recognized as an art form.

Continue Reading →

A Brief Timeline of the Bathing Suit

May 28, 2010 0 Comments

Nothing screams summer fun in the sun like the casual, carefree look of beachgoers in bathing suits. See the styles that shaped the decades and spanned the publications, from Mademoiselle to Glamour, in this brief timeline of the bathing suit.

Continue Reading →