Her very first job when she moved to New York was being a promotional copywriter for the magazine. But eventually, she became … effing Joan Didion.
The early 1950s were a cool time in graphic design: Artists, fed up with patriotic and overly sentimental US images borne from their country’s wars, started getting a bit edgier. Jasper Johns came of age in the 1950s, as did the Beats, writing on topics and in formats the reading public had never seen before.
For a decade with tend to think of as utterly conformist, you really can see the artistic experimentation everywhere — including Vogue.
August 1954, British Vogue. Again with the cool, concept-y cover art! I wish today’s women’s magazines embraced this bolder, experimental cover style.
And finally, just for kicks. This has little to do with Vogue but everything to do with awesome, a photo shoot my fashion designer buddy Rene and I did recently at her boutique which involved her dog, Jack.
That’s Jack looking up at me; what you can’t see is a live rabbit in my arms! (Also Rene’s).
If Jack’s sweet doggy face looks a little perplexed, that is probably why. “What is that creature she’s holding?”