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Thursday, January 5, 2012

VOGUE HAS LAUNCHED THE VOGUE ARCHIVE, INCLUDING EVERY PAGE OF EVERY ISSUE FROM 1892 UNTIL TODAY Featuring: 400,000 FULL-COLOR, DIGITIZED IMAGES OF VOGUE’S Covers, Advertisements, Features, Fashion Portfolios , and Illustrations, In Their Original Context.

Vogue announces the launch of

the Vogue Archive (voguearchive.com),

powered globally by WGSN. The archive,

digitized in full color, includes all pages

of every issue of American Vogue from

1892 to the present, including covers

and advertisements.

The ultimate style authority, Vogue offers an unparalleled

record of fashion and social and cultural ideas

across the span of its 120-year history. The Vogue Archive

provides an extraordinarily wide-ranging, in-depth, and

high-caliber resource for design professionals, students,

educators, researchers, and fashion enthusiasts.

“As the world’s leading trend forecaster and supplier of

digital inspiration tools for the fashion and design industries,

WGSN is ideally suited to maximize the commercial

potential of the Vogue Archive. Both WGSN and the

Vogue Archive are must-haves for any creative, design, or

fashion business. The integration of two such powerful

resources is an industry first.” --Steve Markov, President,

WGSN Americas.

Fast and specific, the Vogue Archive is powered by a

sophisticated tagging taxonomy

allowing users to search

and refine results in numerous

ways:

• Sort results by articles,

images, covers, or

advertisements.

• Browse by decade.

• Select a particular issue.

• Refine searches by

brand, designer, photographer,

or personality.

• Search by color,

materials, or clothing.



About Vogue

The foundation of Vogue’s leadership and authority is the

brand’s unique role as a cultural barometer for a global audience.

Vogue places fashion in the context of culture and the world

we live in—how we dress, live, and socialize; what we eat, listen

to, and watch; who leads and inspires us. Vogue invests in the

industry at large, and continues to lead readers to what will happen

next. Thought-provoking, relevant, and always influential,

the power of Vogue continues to define the culture of fashion.

Follow us on Twitter @VogueMagazine.

About WGSN

WGSN is the world’s premier trend forecaster. The company

enables over 38,000 subscribers to make brilliant design decisions

every day by identifying and analyzing the trends that

will shape commercially successful products and services in

the future. WGSN’s inspiration and insight

are available through online subscriptions to

a variety of state-of-the-art digital tools and

through bespoke consultancy services.

About ProQuest

ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable

information. Key to serious research, the

company has forged a 70-year reputation as

a gateway to the world’s knowledge – from

dissertations to governmental and cultural

archives to news, in all its forms. Its massive

information pool is made accessible in research

environments that accelerate productivity,

empowering users to discover, create, and share knowledge.

ProQuest’s role is essential to libraries and other organizations

whose missions depend on the delivery of complete,

trustworthy information.

About Condé Nas t

Condé Nast is home to some of the world’s most celebrated

media brands. In the United States, Condé Nast

publishes eighteen consumer magazines,

four business-to-business publications,

27 Web sites, and more than 40 apps for

mobile and tablet devices, all of which

define excellence in their categories. The

company also owns Fairchild Fashion

Media (FFM), whose portfolio of brands

serves as the leading source of news and

analysis for the global fashion community.

Condé Nast has won more National

Magazine Awards over the past ten years

than all of its competitors combined.

Follow us on Twitter@CondeNastCorp.



The archive offers a wealth of opportunities to participate

in and discover fashion, and is engineered to

support “inspiration exploration” as well as precision

searches. Users can manage and print favorites, share

their inspiration with their colleagues and clients, and

collaborate on ideas.

The archive will be updated monthly with the latest

issue of Vogue, and access is available with an annual online

subscription through WGSN. For more information, visit

voguearchive.com.

For academic institutions and libraries, the Vogue

Archive is available from ProQuest, the leading

provider of digital-research resources. Through

ProQuest’s authoritative

presence in scholarly research,

the Vogue Archive

is expected to become a

definitive resource for

students of fashion and

the visual arts. Additionally,

as a comprehensive

primary source of modern

social history, the

Vogue Archive opens

new research avenues

in the humanities and

gender studies.






About Vogue

The foundation of Vogue’s leadership and authority is the

brand’s unique role as a cultural barometer for a global audience.

Vogue places fashion in the context of culture and the world

we live in—how we dress, live, and socialize; what we eat, listen

to, and watch; who leads and inspires us. Vogue invests in the

industry at large, and continues to lead readers to what will happen

next. Thought-provoking, relevant, and always influential,

the power of Vogue continues to define the culture of fashion.

Follow us on Twitter @VogueMagazine.

About WGSN

WGSN is the world’s premier trend forecaster. The company

enables over 38,000 subscribers to make brilliant design decisions

every day by identifying and analyzing the trends that

will shape commercially successful products and services in

the future. WGSN’s inspiration and insight

are available through online subscriptions to

a variety of state-of-the-art digital tools and

through bespoke consultancy services.

About ProQuest

ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable

information. Key to serious research, the

company has forged a 70-year reputation as

a gateway to the world’s knowledge – from

dissertations to governmental and cultural

archives to news, in all its forms. Its massive

information pool is made accessible in research

environments that accelerate productivity,empowering users to discover, create, and share knowledge.

ProQuest’s role is essential to libraries and other organizations

whose missions depend on the delivery of complete,

trustworthy information.

About Condé Nas t

Condé Nast is home to some of the world’s most celebrated

media brands. In the United States, Condé Nast

publishes eighteen consumer magazines,

four business-to-business publications,

27 Web sites, and more than 40 apps for

mobile and tablet devices, all of which

define excellence in their categories. The

company also owns Fairchild Fashion

Media (FFM), whose portfolio of brands

serves as the leading source of news and

analysis for the global fashion community.

Condé Nast has won more National

Magazine Awards over the past ten years

than all of its competitors combined.

Follow us on Twitter@CondeNastCorp.

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