If you like fashion, you can’t miss The Vogue Archive, a website that reviews the magazine’s 132-year history with interesting stories and thousands of images
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It was December 17, 1892 when the first issue of Vogue magazine went on sale. Since that launch, 132 years have passed and many, many editions of this now legendary fashion magazine. Google wanted to recognize the importance of Vogue collaborating with the magazine itself to create The Vogue Archive. If you like fashion and, above all, reviewing collections from the past, this is a website that you cannot miss.
As its name suggests, The Vogue Archive is an online Vogue archive that traces the history of the magazine. It is made up 15,000 different images and by texts of great interest that will let you know how Vogue has evolved during its 132 years of life. The content is divided into different folders, such as photographers, designers and cover starsso you can access photos based on your personal interests.
The Vogue Archive, the new Google Arts & Culture project
The Vogue Archive was born from the direct collaboration between Google Arts & CultureGoogle’s arts and culture division, with Conde Nast, the publisher behind Vogue. The union gives rise to an online collection that reviews the history of the magazine since its first launch in 1892. For example, with The Vogue Archive we know that the first photographic cover of the magazine took place on July 1, 1932before the editions were made up of illustrations.
This online archive is made up of many other stories that allow us to know the importance of Vogue in culture, art and also in society. The magazine claims to have been key in the incorporation of women into the workforce in the 1970s and this is demonstrated with dozens of photographs accompanied by explanatory texts.
With The Vogue Archive you can learn very interesting facts about the history of the magazine | Photography by The Vogue Archive
With The Vogue Archive we can also find out what the birth of the miniskirt wave relationship between art and fashion in the different editions of the magazine. If you are only interested in photographers, cover stars or clothing designers, you can directly access this type of content, as archival photographs are divided into these different categories.
The online archive created by Google goes one step further and also divide the content according to the clothing item. For example, you can see historic Vogue images in which dogs appear, in which hats play a main role, or those in which sports are the main theme.
Vogue images are organized in different folders such as brands and photographers | Photography by The Vogue Archive
In short, The Vogue Archive is the perfect website if you like to review old fashion collections. Specifically, it gives you Free access to 15,000 timeless images of Vogue, belonging to some 600 different editions. Keep in mind that the Spanish version of this website is translated automatically, so you may find the occasional spelling mistake.
In addition to reviewing the history of Vogue, there are other amazing things you can do with Google Arts & Culture. If you like culture and art, this section of Google is ideal, as it allows you go to the museum without leaving hometurn your selfie into a work of art or learn about the relationship between Van Gogh and love.
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