FACTS
Here is a list of 8 facts which I have found during my research:
The inaugural issue of the magazine, “written by the smart set for the smart set,”[vii] as one newspaper wrote, featured a drawing of a debutante by A. B. Wenzel. This same artist would later illustrate Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth, a Gilded Age tragedy about the New York elite, who formed the core of Vogue’s earliest audience.
* 916 number of pages in the magazine’s largest issue, to date.
For the September 2012 issue, with a Marc Jacobs–clad Lady Gaga on the cover, the magazine was more than an inch thick, and weighed between 4.2033 and 4.6896 pounds (depending on the edition).
* 90 Number of dogs that have appeared on Vogue’s cover.
Vida, Gisele Bündchen’s late Yorkie, was the most recent canine to have the distinction (in December 2001). The magazine’s first editor, Josephine Redding, who served from 1892 until 1900 and is credited with naming the publication, was known to prefer animals to fashion. “During her regime,” Edna Woolman Chase recounted in her memoirs, “the pages of Vogue barked, meowed, cheeped, and roared with accounts of animal life.” On several occasions, the cover went to the dogs, literally.
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* 6 is a number of professional athletes who have appeared on the cover—and “fashion’s love affair with sports” is ongoing, according to Vogue's April 2015 cover line. The first Olympian to be featured was that star of track and field Marion Jones, in 2001. Tennis champ Serena Williams is the only athlete who has two cover credits.
* 3 Number of Vogue covers signed by Salvador Dalí.It wasn’t until July 1932 that the first color photograph, by Edward Steichen, appeared on a cover of Vogue (1959 was the first year all of the magazine’s covers were photographic). Before then, illustrations were used in full, or part. While most of these charming “storytelling pictures” were created by leading fashion illustrators, subscribers were also treated to designs by fine artists including Marie Laurencin (1923, 1931) and Giorgio de Chirico (1935). Two years after collaborating with Elsa Schiaparelli on the “lobster dress” (worn by Wallis Simpson in Vogue), the mustachioed surrealist Dalí contributed the first of his three covers.
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* 2 is a number of princesses to cover Vogue.
Royal fascination is part of Vogue’s DNA. The magazine was founded, after all, during the Gilded Age when “dollar princesses”—wealthy American women who married titled foreigners—were big news. Countess Divonne, née Florence Audenried, made a cover appearance in 1893, but the most famous of these brides was Consuelo Vanderbilt. Her 1895 wedding to the Duke of Marlborough has been described as “the great romantic event . . . of the entire fin de siècle era"—no matter that the bride cried herself down the aisle, the marriage having been arranged by her mother. The magazine devoted a cover to Vanderbilt’s bridesmaids’ dresses, and many interior pages to the event. Much later, in 1971, the Princess of Monaco, born Grace Kelly in Philadelphia, was featured, as was the most photographed woman in the world, Princess Diana, in 1993.
Royal fascination is part of Vogue’s DNA. The magazine was founded, after all, during the Gilded Age when “dollar princesses”—wealthy American women who married titled foreigners—were big news. Countess Divonne, née Florence Audenried, made a cover appearance in 1893, but the most famous of these brides was Consuelo Vanderbilt. Her 1895 wedding to the Duke of Marlborough has been described as “the great romantic event . . . of the entire fin de siècle era"—no matter that the bride cried herself down the aisle, the marriage having been arranged by her mother. The magazine devoted a cover to Vanderbilt’s bridesmaids’ dresses, and many interior pages to the event. Much later, in 1971, the Princess of Monaco, born Grace Kelly in Philadelphia, was featured, as was the most photographed woman in the world, Princess Diana, in 1993.
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