Online access to Vogue magazines, photos and articles

Vogue Archive

Did you know that as a student or member of staff at PRC or UCP you have free access to the full archive of American Vogue from it's first issue in 1892 until the latest edition. The link to this is found on the Electronic Resources page on Moodle.

This includes photography, fashion, articles, adverts - in fact whole (in most cases) digitised copies of the original magazines which you can use as part of your course or for your own interest.

We advise you to use the Advanced search as then you can search specifically - for a particular accessory or fashion item , for example, or look for images by a particular photographer/ fashion designer. Alternatively if you want to look through whole magazines, you can browse individual issues.

For a comprehensive guide to using this resource click here. Alternatively ask a member of LRC staff to show you if you are unsure.

Fashion Show photo by AhmadArdity (CC0 Creative Commons)
from  https://pixabay.com/en/fashion-show-fashion-catwalk-model-1746581/
(Not from the Vogue Archive)

Who may find this useful?

Art students - Look at textile design or use the resources to inspire your own designs. Look at fashion or textiles as an art form and see it in it's context so you can understand what influences certain designs at certain times.

Photography students - Look at techniques used for fashion photography and photographing people. Study the lighting used perhaps or look for examples of effects you would like to create.

Media and Journalism students - Look at journalism styles and content through time or currently. Study and soak up techniques used in one of the leading fashion journals.

Hair and Beauty students - You can view hairstyle and make-up trends at a particular time in history and read the techniques used to create the various styles at the time. The more recent issues will show more up to date trends.

Performing Arts students - Like hair and beauty students you can see how actors should dress and look in something set in the past or in the fashion industry and try to recreate these authentically for a production.

Marketing students - Look at advertising and brand creation either currently or through time and within one industry (i.e. fashion).

Sociology students who for example want to look at how gender and class are portrayed over time or within or through fashion or advertising might find this useful. Images give an idea of popular culture at a particular time.

Anyone interested in fashion who has an interest in fashion (historical or present day).