‘V
ogue 100: A Century of Style’ (11
February – 22 May 2016) will showcase
the remarkable range of photography that
has been commissioned by British Vogue since it
was founded in 1916, with more than 280 prints
from the Condé Nast archive and international
collections being brought together for theirst time
to tell the story of one of the mostinluential fashion
magazines in the world.
Decade by decade, the exhibition will explore
British Vogue’s unfaltering position at the forefront of
new fashion, its dedication to the best in design, and
its inluence on the UK’s wider cultural stage during
some of the most inventive and exciting periods in
style, taste, the arts and society. Exquisite vintage
prints from the early twentieth century, ground-
breaking photographs from renowned fashion
shoots, unpublished work and original magazines will
be brought together in this irst retrospective survey
of the celebrated magazine.
‘Vogue 100: A Century of Style’ will include
work by many of the leading twentieth-century
photographers, including Cecil Beaton, Lee Miller,
Irving Penn and Snowdon. More recent work by
celebrated photographers David Bailey, Corinne
Day, Patrick Demarchelier, Nick Knight, Herb Ritts,Mario Testino, Tim Walker and Albert Watson will
also be included, reinforcing British Vogue’s keen
editorial eye and dedication to commissioning
world-class photography, as well as its role in
nurturing new talent.
Highlights of the exhibition include the entire
set of prints from Corinne Day’s controversial
Kate Moss underwear shoot, taken in 1993 at the
pinnacle of the ‘grunge’ trend; Peter Lindbergh’s
famous 1990 cover shot that deined the
supermodel era; a series of exceptional Second
World War photographs by Vogue’soicial war
correspondent, Lee Miller; a rare version of Horst’s
famous ‘corset’ photograph from 1939, which
inspired the video for Madonna’s hit song Vogue;
and vintage prints by theirst professional fashion
photographer, Baron de Meyer.
British Vogue was founded in 1916, when the
First World War made transatlantic shipments of
American Vogue impossible and its proprietor,
Condé Nast, authorised a British edition. It was
an immediate success, and over the following ten
decades of uninterrupted publication, the magazine
continued to mirror its times and put fashion in
the context of the wider world – the austerity and
optimism that followed the two world wars, the
‘Swinging London’ scene in the sixties, the radical
seventies and the image-conscious eighties. In
the magazine’s second century,
it remains at the cutting edge of
photography and design.Vogue 100: A Century of Style
11 February – 22 May 2016,
National Portrait Gallery, London
Web: npg.org.uk/vogue100
Admission charges apply.Celebrating a Century
of British Vogue
A major
exhibition
celebrating
100 years of
cutting-edge
fashion, beauty
and portrait
photography
by British
Vogue opened
at the National
Portrait
Gallery,
London, in
February 2016.Images
Far left: David Hockney, Peter Schlesinger and
Maudie James by Cecil Beaton, 1968
© The Condé Nast Publications Ltd
Left: Linda Evangelista by
Patrick Demarchelier, 1991
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