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Vogue (magazine)

American fashion and lifestyle magazine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ154008
Source-derived summary

Vogue (stylized in all caps), also known as American Vogue, is a monthly women's fashion magazine that covers style news, including haute couture, beauty, fashion, culture, living, and runway. Founded in 1892 by Arthur Baldwin Turnure, it is part of the global collection of Condé Nast's VOGUE media. Since 2025, Chloe Malle has overseen the magazine's editorial content. Anna Wintour served as editor-in-chief of the publication from 1988 to 2025 and now leads global operations for the publication as Global Chief Content Officer and Global Editorial Director overseeing Vogue and other Condé Nast titles.

Headquartered at One World Trade Center in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, Vogue began in 1892 as a weekly and has since transitioned into a monthly magazine. Since its founding, Vogue has featured numerous actors, musicians, models, athletes, and other prominent celebrities within its pages.

British Vogue, launched in 1916, as the first international edition, whilst the Italian version Vogue Italia has been called the top fashion magazine in the world. As of March 2025, there are 28 international editions. Eleven of these editions are published by Condé Nast (British Vogue, Vogue Arabia, Vogue Hong Kong, Vogue Deutsch, Vogue España, Vogue France, Vogue India, Vogue Italia, Vogue Japan, Vogue México y Latinoamérica, and Vogue Taiwan). The remaining 16 editions are published under licence.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Vogue (magazine)” is american fashion and lifestyle magazine. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Vogue, magazine and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1892, 2025, 1988, 1916—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1892-12-17. For this dossier, Vogue, magazine and American is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q154008. VIAF identifies the subject as 187319977. 4 of 8 selected statements include explicit references; 6 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1892, 2025, 1988 and 1916.

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This entry incorporates text from Vogue (magazine)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.