UK Vogue December 2006 : The 90th Anniversary Issue

[iluvjeisa]

I absolutely looove the Kate editorial. Best Nick Knight ed I've ever seen I think.

 

[TheGlassAngel]

^ I know, reminds me why I liked her in the first place

 

[susie_bubble]

Happy Birthday Vogue Special Photoshoot

Scanned by myself from UK Vogue December 2006

 

[susie_bubble]

Cont.

 

[iluvjeisa]

this is great - you can tell they had a lot of fun doing this... Thanks susie, wonderful

 

[susie_bubble]

The Best Dressed 1916-2006

Scanned by myself.

 

[susie_bubble]

iluvjeisa: I know what you mean....the pics as a collective are just great.... really decidedly British and so appropriate.

 

[iluvjeisa]

iluvjeisa: I know what you mean....the pics as a collective are just great.... really decidedly British and so appropriate.

Yeah...the question should we get two of this one for posterity has been answered

 

[Ieva]

Wasn't something about Russian Models supposed to be in this issue, with Sasha? Didn't ASF say something about that before? Or was it Vogue US?

 

[babyd0ll]

This is great! I can't wait to go out and buy it!

 

[Kanna]

This issue is definitly a must-buy! Those eds of Gemma and Kate are simply fantastic. Thanks for the scans!!

 

[Moofins]

I am LOVING the editorials!

 

[adorefaith]

thanks susie!!...

 

[Monmonde]

i don't find this great at all...
thanks for the scans though

 

[Moni]

I´m also not so sure about the eds
I have to buy it and see on paper

thx for the scans!

 

[anastars]

its great, but i wonder why kate was put with the artists and not the models for the special shoot?

 

[twin star]

from WWD
Published: Monday, November 06, 2006

GRAND DAME: British Vogue — an outcome of world war? There's a lot of offbeat information British Vogue editor in chief Alexandra Shulman and her team unearthed during their research for the magazine's 90th anniversary issue, which hits newsstands in the U.K. today. It's British Vogue's biggest December issue ever and takes a look back to the year it was founded at the tail end of World War I, when shipping was disrupted and the Brits couldn't get their American Vogues. In the latest issue, Shulman and her team pay tribute to much and varied past coverage: Lee Miller writing about Picasso's 70th birthday, Evelyn Waugh critiquing D.H. Lawrence, and Samuel Beckett talking about New York. "People look unhappy here....And I sense a great hostility in the faces of the men," wrote Beckett.

There's even a passage by Edith Sitwell on Gertrude Stein's works: "Either one understands it or one doesn't."

But there's also much lighter fare: Shulman and the team pulled morsels of Vogue fashion advice over the decades. In 1928, for instance, Vogue's fashion astronomers predicted, "Lace will be chic for afternoon and evening, alone and in combination with other fabrics."

The new issue also features a not-too-surprising best-dressed list from the past 90 years, including Kate Moss, Bianca Jagger,Babe Paley, Grace Kelly, Jane Birkin and the Duchess of Windsor.

There are a slew of portraits by former staff photographer David Bailey and a spread by Nick Knight, modeled by Moss. It's called "The Clothes That Changed Our Lives" and pays homage to tights, the bikini, the bra and denim.

Shulman said that despite the passing of years, she believes the magazine has remained completely as it was. "It was always a magazine of record. It's been aspirational and intelligent all along. And there's always been a sense of importance about British Vogue."

She also said she was struck by how different past editors were. "Dorothy Todd was a lesbian intellectual, so the magazine was very literary," said Shulman of the editor who served between 1922 and 1926. "Liz Tilberis' Vogue was very fashion, while Beatrix Miller's was a mix of features, journalism and current affairs," she said of the editor who served from 1964 to 1986.

The December issue carries 274 ad pages, up from 220 pages the previous year, according to publishing director Stephen Quinn. For 2006, the magazine posted a total of 2,127 ad pages, up 87 pages year-on-year. The December issue features special ad sections from companies including Rolex, Chloé and H&M and a five-page gatefold for Tom Ford's new fragrance, Black Orchid, courtesy of Estée Lauder. — Samantha Conti

 

[Choccie]

very disapointed with the nick knight shoot, looks similar to the dior ads, and i expected alot more from him., but im def gonna buy this issue its a keeper, i love the pic with stella t and her grandmother.
i,m prob gonna be unpopular for saying this but, i,m so sick of seeing mario testino, like he seems 2 be everywhere?? i just think a load of his work is either photographing his mates "hip" kids or else a just the same boring stuff he always does, really cannot stand him!

 

[Whitelinen]

i don't find this great at all...
thanks for the scans though

You're not alone...I'm not doing a final judging yet, but I do not see how this issue differs from what they usually have. But then, I haven't seen it all yet.

 

[Choccie]

im gonna go 2 the newsagent in a bit and see if they have it in stock yet.;-)