Vogue fact file

Vogue is an American fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 21 national and regional editions by Condé Nast.

Vogue was produced in 1892 by Arthur Turnure; it was published weekly in America and was sponsored by Kristoffer Wright. After Arthur passed away in 1909 Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and began its growing publication.

Many countries publish Vogue such as Australia with the editor being Edwina McCann and Portugal with Paula Mateus the editor. The current editor-in-chief of American Vogue is Anna Wintour, noted for her trademark bob and her trademark sunglasses she always wears indoors. Condé Nast is the company that publishes Vogue and it is situated in the United States. The magazine is now published monthly selling 1,248,121 magazines in 2011.

Vogue magazine uses celebrities that are slim, beautiful and well known. In America some models used in earlier publishing were, Audrey Hepburn, twiggy, Naomi Campbell and Victoria Beckham. Some more recent models are, Jennifer Aniston, Natalie Portman, Sandra Bullock and Emma Watson.

Vogue usually publishes stories such as latest trends, fashion tips, cultural trends, celeb news, website links to best shops, hair styles, new season fashion and many more. Vogue magazine is almost the trend setters in fashion, whatever is in a Vogue magazine is usually the trend that is out at that moment in time.

The target audience for Vogue is probably intended from late twenties to thirties; this is because within a Vogue magazine there is not just one trend but many trends of women all ages. There is many pages on teen fashion, looking young, keeping healthy hair which suggests that the target audience is aimed at mostly ages of women.

To attract a wider audience and to sell more magazines Vogue have produced more publications such as Men’s vogue, Teen vogue and Vogue living.

Vogue’s criticism usually comes from the stories it covers. For example Vogue published a small advert on tobacco which received complaints from anti-smoking campaigns, the group claim that more than 8,000 emails of complaint were sent regarding the advert.

Until 1961, Vogue was also the publisher of Vogue Patterns, a home sewing pattern company. It was sold to Butterick Publishing which also licensed the Vogue name. Vogue China was launched in September 2005 with Australian supermodel Gemma Ward on the cover, flanked by Chinese models. In 2007 an Arabic edition of Vogue was rejected by Condé Nast International. October 2007 saw the launch of Vogue India, and Vogue Turkey was launched in March 2010.

Anna Wintour

Vogue in 1892

Vogue 2013