48 Facts About Vogue USA

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Since its founding, Vogue USA has featured numerous actors, musicians, models, athletes, and other prominent celebrities.

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The largest issue published by Vogue USA magazine was the September 2012 edition, containing 900 pages.

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British Vogue USA, launched in 1916, was the first international edition, while the Italian version Vogue USA Italia has been called the top fashion magazine in the world.

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In July 1932, American Vogue USA placed its first color photograph on the cover of the magazine.

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Laird Borrelli notes that Vogue USA led the decline of fashion illustration in the late 1930s, when it began to replace its illustrated covers, by artists such as Dagmar Freuchen, with photographic images.

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Vogue USA has been credited with turning Vogue into a "successful business" and the "women's magazine we recognize today", having substantially increased sales volumes until his death in 1942.

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Daves era of Vogue USA came to an end in 1962, when Diana Vreeland joined the magazine.

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8.

Toward this end, Vogue USA extended coverage to include East Village boutiques such as Limbo on St Mark's Place, as well as including features of "downtown" personalities such as Andy Warhol's "Superstar" Jane Holzer's favorite haunts.

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Vogue USA continued making household names out of models, a practice that continued with Suzy Parker, Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, Lauren Hutton, Veruschka, Marisa Berenson, Penelope Tree, and others.

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Vogue USA changed the magazine by adding text with interviews, arts coverage, and serious health pieces.

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In July 1988, after Vogue USA had begun to lose ground to three-year-old upstart Elle, Anna Wintour was named editor-in-chief.

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12.

Vogue USA was described by book critic Caroline Weber in a December 2006 edition of The New York Times as "the world's most influential fashion magazine": The publication claims to reach 11 million readers in the US and 12.

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In 2006, Vogue USA acknowledged salient political and cultural issues by featuring the burqa, as well as articles on prominent Muslim women, their approach to fashion, and the effect of different cultures on fashion and women's lives.

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Vogue USA sponsored the "Beauty Without Borders" initiative with a US$25,000 donation that was used to establish a cosmetology school for Afghan women.

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15.

In October 2016, the magazine stated that "Vogue USA endorses Hillary Clinton for president of the United States".

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Vogue USA has hosted the themed event since 1971 under editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland.

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17.

In 2015, Vogue USA listed their "15 Roots Reggae Songs You Should Know"; and in an interview with Patricia Chin of VP Records, Vogue USA highlighted an abbreviated list of early "reggae royalty" that recorded at Studio 17 in Kingston, Jamaica which included Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown, Burning Spear, Toots and the Maytals, The Heptones, and Bunny Wailer.

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In 2007, Vogue USA drew criticism from the anti-smoking group "Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids", for carrying tobacco advertisements in the magazine.

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19.

In February 2011, just before the 2011 Syrian protests unfolded, Vogue USA published a controversial piece by Joan Juliet Buck about Asma al-Assad, wife of the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

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20.

In October 2018, Vogue USA published a photoshoot starring Kendall Jenner who had an afro-like style hairstyle which drew criticisms.

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21.

In October 2012, Vogue USA released a book titled Vogue USA: The Editor's Eye to complement the documentary.

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22.

In 2013, Vogue USA launched the Vogue USA video channel that can be accessed via their website.

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23.

Vogue USA has created an easily navigable website that includes six different content categories for viewers to explore.

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24.

Vogue USA launched the teaser for its podcast series on September 10,2015.

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25.

In June 2019, Vogue USA Business launched the Vogue USA Business Talent, a platform that promotes vacancies from international fashion brands and companies with the goal to match professionals with their job opportunities.

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26.

Vogue USA Hommes International is an international men's fashion magazine based in Paris, France, and L'uomo Vogue USA is the Italian men's version.

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27.

Until 1961, Vogue USA was the publisher of Vogue USA Patterns, a home sewing pattern company.

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On March 5,2010,16 international editors-in-chief of Vogue USA met in Paris to discuss the 2nd Fashion's Night Out.

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29.

In 2017, Vogue USA launched on their website an article named “Latinas in Los Angeles” for their 125th Anniversary that centralizes the fashion among the Chicano community, starting from one of the well-known points in the history of the 1940s- the Pachuco subculture.

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Vogue USA Australia became the fourth international edition in 1959.

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31.

In late July 2021, Emanuele Farneti, editor-in-chief of Vogue USA Italia announced his departure from the magazine after the September issue for 2021.

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32.

Vogue USA Brasil became the fifth international edition in 1975.

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33.

Vogue USA Korea became the ninth international edition in 1996.

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34.

Vogue USA Taiwan became the tenth international edition in 1996.

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35.

Vogue USA Mexico was published for the first time in 1980, becoming the sixth international edition, the Mexican edition last until 1994 when has to close because of the economic crisis, five years later, in 1999 it was relaunched under the name of Vogue USA Mexico and Latinoamerica.

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36.

Vogue USA Greece became the thirteenth international edition in 2000.

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37.

Vogue USA Greece debuted on March 31,2019, and is published under license agreement with Kathimerines Ekdoseis SA.

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38.

Vogue USA Portugal became the fourteenth international edition in 2002.

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Vogue USA China became the fifteenth international edition in 2005.

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Vogue USA India became the sixteenth international edition in 2007.

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Vogue USA Turkey became the seventeenth international edition in 2010.

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Vogue USA Arabia became the twentieth international edition in 2016.

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43.

In July 2016, the launch of Vogue USA Arabia was announced, first as a dual English and Arabic language website, then with a print edition to follow in spring 2017.

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44.

Vogue USA Poland became the twenty-first international edition in 2018.

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45.

In June 2017, it was announced that the Polish edition, Vogue USA Polska, was in preparation, with Filip Niedenthal as editor-in-chief.

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46.

Vogue USA Czechoslovakia became the twenty-second international edition in 2018.

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Vogue USA Scandinavia became the twenty-sixth international edition in 2021.

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48.

Vogue USA Russia became the tenth international edition in 1998.

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