Vogue Launches It’s Digital Archives & Every Black Vogue Cover
How exiting, Vogue launches it’s digital archives. Yesterday Vogue magazine announced the launch of its complete digital archive–every page from every issue since 1892.
That adds up to an astounding 425,000 images, 300,000 ads, 100,000 articles and one enormous price tag. A one year subscription to the site costs a cool $1,575. Wowza! Yet another reason to loath the top one percent (Occupy Vogue, anyone?) Before grabbing a pitchfork, let’s do the math. That’s less than $1 per issue–offering a silver(ish) lining for true Vogue magazine junkies.
Whether you have deep pockets or plan on maxing out the credit card, you should know that the subscription is only being offered to companies for research and branding purposes through WSGN, a trend forecasting company. Vogue magazine subscribers will get “select” access to the site at some point next year. (For a FREE fashion fix, check out the new Valentino virtual archive)
The chance to pour over vintage issues filled with Gordon Parks photographs, fashion spreads with Iman and the very first musings from Andre Leon Talley is almost too much for us to handle. Clearly a side hustle will need to be put in place to finance this dream (suggestions welcomed).
In the spirit of looking back, we decided to do some archival digging ourselves and attempted to compile every American Vogue issue that has featured a black cover model (minus the mixed group shots). And it all started with Beverly Johnson in 1974.
London’s Notting Hill Carnival: Photos
London’s colourful Notting Hill Carnival got off to a peaceful start on Sunday, defying fears that Europe’s biggest street festival could be marred by a repeat of this month’s devastating riots.
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Umbanda worshippers perform rituals in Brazil
Umbanda, an Afro-Brazilian religion that combines African religions with Catholicism and local indigenous beliefs, uses rituals to induce trances in worshippers who “incorporate” the spirits of slaves born in Africa and buried in Brazil.
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Italian Vogue’s Latest All-Black Spread: ‘The Black Allure’. *Photos*
Perhaps Italian Vogue is at the forefront of the all-one-race trend that’s been proliferating in magazines since it put out the now iconic all-black issue for July of 2008. This month’s Italian Vogue features another all-black editorial, “The Black Allure,” shot by British photographer Emma Summerton and styled by Edward Enninful. More Photos… Continue reading
I guess fat does sell
Lucian Freud’s one-time muse was paid £20 a day to sit for a painting expected to fetch more than £17m. But Londoner Sue Tilley said she did not do it for the money and had “lovely lunches” with the artist. Freud’s 1995 work, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, looks set to become the most expensive painting by a living artist when it is sold in New York next month.
Ms Tilley – who is now a job centre manager – joked she had now become a broadsheet pin-up.
Ms Tilley – nicknamed Big Sue – told the BBC’s Today programme: “I can’t quite believe it, to be honest.
“I only found out on Thursday afternoon. You know, I didn’t have any idea it was going to happen, so I’m a bit in shock.
“I was reading on the internet…all the things about it. And I was just going ‘Oh my god’, I could hardly believe it was about me.”
‘Lovely lunches’
Referring to her portrait gracing the front-page of Saturday’s Financial Times, she said: “Am I the first naked pin-up in the history of the FT?
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