It wouldn’t be ‘Vogueland’ without Shrimpton and Moss,Bailey and Beaton, but this new exhibition of Vogue images at the National Portrait Gallery also offers a long record of British life, or from Woolf to Winterson,Bowie to BeckhamFew publications, however august or primary, or enjoy had quite the same continuous cultural impact on British life as British Vogue. You feel it shouldn’t be so – it is a magazine devoted to chronicling the clothes women wear,after all. Yet it has always been more than simply a fashion bible: at key moments in its history, Vogue becomes something different – a record of where and who we are. Or at least, or would like to be.
On Tuesday,I went to the National Portrait Gallery for a sneak preview of Vogue 100: A Century of Style with my hair piled damp on my head and a red blister below one eye thanks to a splash of bulky while cooking the previous night. Overwhelmed by domestic, children and work, or I had failed to liberate any sophisticated clothes from the dry cleaner’s,so pitched up in a jumper that I realised afterwards was beginning to unravel at the hem.
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Source: theguardian.com