American Vogue February 1 1972 : Karen Graham by David Bailey
Scanned some of the goodies from this mag. It's contents are far more enjoyable than the somewhat bizarre cover.
Cover: Karen Graham by David Bailey
Photographers: Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton
Models: Karen Graham, Donna Michell and a bunch of unknowns. Is the blonde in the Newton ed Gunilla Lindblad and another could be Pola?
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Last edited by iluvjeisa : 10-12-2007 at 03:17 AM.
wow, some of this is really great! I would also love to see the masthead, but to answer Softgrey's question, Anna did not find her way to Vogue until the early 80's as far as I am aware, and was not EIC until 87ish??? Could be wrong...
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"She said I was having a nervous breakdown and should go to Atlantic City. I'm not that broken down yet!"
wow, this is great, so much of it looks so modern..
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"and when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun"
EIC: Grace Mirabella. Editorial director: Alexander Liberman Associate editor: Kate Lloyd, Carrie Donovan Art director: Priscilla Peck Consulting editor: Diana Vreeland
Senior fashion editors: Babs Simpson, Nicolas de Gunzberg Fashion editors: Polly Allen Mellen, Gloria Moncur, Dorothea Elkon, Linda Frankel
There's more info, feel free to ask if there's anything more specific, I think I'll just scan the masthead next time, it's quite interesting that Diana V was still involved.
I love almost all Grace Mirabella's American Vogues until 1983, especially when they have Newton on board.
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Last edited by iluvjeisa : 10-12-2007 at 03:26 AM.
wow, this is great, so much of it looks so modern..
That was what first popped into my head too! It just looks so contemporary! Considering how widely reported it is that pre-Wintour Vogue was doudy, etc. I was really shocked at how cool these eds were. Not to mention how much we seem to have been reflecting on this moment over the last year...
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"She said I was having a nervous breakdown and should go to Atlantic City. I'm not that broken down yet!"
Grace Mirabella lost her touch in 1983 and Vogue became very health centric, in a rather boring and pathetic way, but it should be understood in the context of AIDS which struck so many of the most gifted American designers and crew (Halston, Perry Ellis, Rudy Gernreich, Way Bandy, Bill King and so many others).
Anna Wintour got things back on track. I think it's the wrong track, but it was better than Grace Mirabella's latest efforts. Even if AW was the EIC in 1989, her influence became significant in 1986 or 87, while GM became less and less interested in fashion. Around that time, the two most powerful American fashionistas/artists died - Diana Vreeland and Andy Warhol (as far as I understand, a critic of AW, at least judging from his diaries, well, he seems to pity her, really), and that contributed, I think, to AW's supremacy.
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Thank you very much,the second pic in post #3 is soo copied nowadays!
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