Vogue

Vogue began in New York in 1892 as a society and fashion weekly. Condé Montrose Nast acquired it in 1909 and reshaped the title around photography, illustration, design, and an international readership, establishing the publishing model from which the wider Condé Nast group grew.

The French edition appeared in 1920. Paris was not merely a subject imported into the American magazine: it became a distinct editorial operation positioned inside the city that set much of the fashion calendar. The Palais Galliera's centenary exhibition treated Vogue Paris as both a record of fashion history and a producer of its visual language.

Pauline Pfeiffer arrived in Paris in 1925 and worked for the magazine's local operation. Her assignment places Vogue directly inside the expatriate network around Ernest Hemingway, Hadley Richardson, and the cafés and apartments of the Left Bank.

Across its editions, Vogue's authority has rested on the collaboration of editors, writers, photographers, illustrators, models, designers, and fashion houses. The Paris edition's changing title and ownership belong to a much longer institutional history, but its archive remains a unusually rich visual chronology of how Paris fashion presented itself to the world.