Lou Little, November 1934

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.

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.

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.

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.