Vogue launches India edition

Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue, hosted a sublime soiree at decadent eatery Savini in Milan for the launch of Vogue India last week. In attendance were the ‘who's who' of the fashion industry, including Giorgio Armani, Stefano Pilati, Matthew Williamson and Col in McDowell, who caused a stir on the door with cameramen when he arrived with a German actress on his arm.

Vogue India will be based in Mumbai and will be the 17th edition of the magazine, hitting newsstands in the subcontinent's autumn. Nicholas Col eridge, Conde Nast UK's managing director, will oversee the launch. Col eridge said: “India is a subcontinent with a uniquely rich and fascinating culture. To launch an India edition of Vogue at this time is an exhilarating assignment.”

Vogue India's editor-in-chief will be Priya Tanna.

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26 February 2007

Vogue editor's daughter becomes British columnist

Perhaps good taste, style and fashionability can be inherited after all? Bee Schaffer, the 18 year-old daughter of British-born US Vogue editor Anna Wintour is to start writing her own style column for the Daily Telegraph from next Wednesday.

Schaffer, who attended the prestigious all-girls school Spence in Manhattan (alumni include Gwyneth Paltrow), says she is a real city girl who loves fashion and journalism, having previously worked at Teen Vogue, American Vogue's little sister.

When asked about her mother being referred to as “nuclear Wintour” she replied, “So much stuff is said about her, that she is a cold, mean person, but it is a myth to me. She wants to produce a great magazine, which you have to work very hard to do.”

Vogue Style Census

Vogue this month has published a style census; asking its readers what they're really like. From how much one spends on a single fashion item to being happy about one's body. To gain insight into how fashionistas rate their favourite designers, feel about aging and even drug use, this month's issue will tell you all.

According to the survey, the style secrets say that the average reader owns 16 pairs of shoes – five of which are unworn. When it comes to lingerie, she prefers to chose her own and she once spent £800 on a single fashion item.

Meet, what the ES describes, as the Alpha woman. On average, the alpha woman is 5ft 6in, a size 12 (as opposed to the British average of 14) and believes she looks fie years younger than she is. The style-conscious woman's only downfall is her thighs, the part of her body she would most like to change. She devours style magazines but cannot resist the allure of Gap and M&S.

Vogue's style census questioned 1,365 readers between 20-45 on their likes and dislikes. More than half named Alexander McQueen as the most stylish brand, with Chanel and Chloe in second and third places. The survey further revealed Calvin Klein to be the most popular designer, with just over hald of all women owning a garment by the brand. On the high street, Gap is by far the most popular, with three quarters of women owning something from the American chain.

Win a Temperley

Fashion-aholics beware! Now is your chance to win an exclusive designer bag. Vogue is offering visitors to its website the opportunity to win a limited edition Temperley for London for Penhaligon's overnight bag worth £495.

The bags are made from rich nappa leather and feature zipped compartments on the insides for safekeeping your possessions. The designs are striking and unusual and each bag has been numbered individually, which makes them even more exclusive and desirable.

For a chance to win one of these coveted items, simply go to Vogue's site and submit your details. It's worth a try!

www.vogue.co.uk
5 August 2005

Vogue China introduced

The new Vogue China was introduced last night in Paris during the Paris Couture. The magazine is set to launch next month.

British Vogue's Alexandra Shulman presented the new editor-in-chief of Vogue China, Angelica Cheung, at a cocktail party which was attended by the likes of Viktor Horsting, Rolf Snoeren, Olivier Theyskens and Loulou de la Falaise. Even Giorgio Armani made a cameo appearance the night before his second ever couture show.

"It's Vogue so it's going to be a success," said Theyskens said of the new magazine. Angelica Cheung appeared delightes with the party: "I am so thrilled to be here," she said. "When Alex offered to do this event how could I say no? It's the perfect entrée to give people a taste of what we are about for when we launch in August."

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6 July 2005

Vogue editor dispels footballer's wife rumours

Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman in an article in The Daily Telegraph, stated that Wayne Rooney's (footballer's) wife, Colleen McLoughlin, did not pay to be featured in the May issue of Vogue, as was rumoured.

The rumours, which circulated amongst the gossip tabloids, were keen to portray Colleen as a shopaholic chav, who wanted to change her image to something more glamorous, consulting Vogue magazine for a little help along the way - and paying to have new photographs taken.

Shulman said Vogue approached Colleen not in an attempt to feature her as a style icon, but rather as a contemporary, young fashionable girl, with her own taste in clothes and who, as a result of the paparazzi, has been constantly in the limelight for her love of shopping and expensive, if sometimes, dubious taste. The May issue of Vogue is out next week.

29 April 2005

Pie-in-the-face for Vogue editor

US Vogue editor - British born Anna Wintour - was the target of an anti-fur campaign at the Chanel catwalk show at Paris fashion week on Friday. An antifur activist shoved a tofu pie into the face of Wintour, who was quick to reply: "I think it was organic. It's good for the skin."

Wintour wasted no time in having her hair and makeup touched up and her raspberry Fendi jacket cleaned off. But she questioned security at the shows, since the attack happened beyond the metal detectors. Asked what actions she would take, Wintour didn't hesitate to say: "Wear more fur." Over the weekend, protesters chanted antifur slogans in French outside of shows, including John Galliano and Louis Vuitton.

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7 March 2005

Vogue searches for new talent

British Vogue is once again searching for the next brightest thing in fashion journalism. All wanna-be Anna Wintours are invited to submit two short pieces to the magazine. The winner will receive the Jackie Moore Memorial Award for Fashion Journalism, in honour of the esteemed fashion journalist who passed away 14 years ago. Furthermore, the lucky winner will receive an all expenses paid visit to London Fashion Week in February 2005, and an opportunity to report on the shows. The reports will be featured in the style pages of the The Guardian.

The only condition for contestants is that they should not have more than one year's experience in fashion journalism. The deadline is 17 December.

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28 October 2004

New CFDA star

This year's winner of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion fund will be announced this Thursday. This year the star-studded judging panel of the Council of Fashion Designer of America will include Anna Wintour, Narciso Rodriguez, Barney's Fashion Director Julie Gilhart and Marc Jacobs Presiden Robert Duffy.

The panel will have to decide the fate of the winner, casting their vote in the morning. In total 137 contestants participated in the competion, and it is now down to ten finalists. These finalists - Libertine, Edmundo Castillo, Cloak, Proenza Schouler, Peter Som, Habitual, Behnaz Sarafpour, Doo Ri, Dean Harris and Derek Lam - were required to hand in portfolios including their business sales, employees and salaries. The finalists were then asked to present their portfolios to the panel of judges. Anna Wintour, the formidable editor-in-chief of US Vogue expressed her respect for the courage, conviction and enthusiasm expressed by the contestants.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is to present the winner with a $ 200,000 prize. The winner will also receive a year of industry mentoring. The two runners-up will each receive $ 50,000. All the finalists will feature in a 20-page story shot by Arthur Elgort for the November issue of US Vogue.

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13 October 2004

Vogue underwear relaunched

Sears Canada is relaunching the Vogue Dessous and Vogue Bra intimate apparel brands. The company acquired the trademarks of Vogue Brassiere Incorporated last year and will be the exclusive seller of the Vogue intimate apparel brand in North America.

"Vogue had been an important component of the Intimate Apparel selection at Sears for many years, and for us, will continue to be a key fashion label," said Mark A. Cohen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Sears Canada.

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April 2, 2003

Royal Vogue edition

Prince Charles will follow the steps of his sister, the Princess Royal, and Lady Diana, Princess of Wales, when he appears in a series of portraits in next month’s edition of British Vogue. Although the images were styled by Vogue’s Fashion Director, the shoot is not a fashion story. The images include a color shot of the Prince in an old brown embroidered coat feeding the chickens at Highgrove, his country residence, and a more formal black and white shot in which he is wearing a suit.

The idea for the shoot was germinated at last summer’s “It’s Fashion” party at Waddeson Manor when Shulman sat between the Prince of Wales and fashion photographer Mario Testino. Two of the images will appear in an exhibition of Testino's work at the National Portrait Gallery in London, which opens on February 1.

Testino is famed for his ability in taking people who have been over-exposed in the media, and photographing them in a completely different way. His ground-breaking series of portraits taken for the July 1997 issue of Vanity Fair showed a sensationally glamorous and alluring Diana, Princess of Wales, and he worked the same kind of magic on Madonna for her 1998 “Ray of Light” album. It’s therefore no surprise that he has managed to give the public an unexpected version of the Prince of Wales, who is reportedly so delighted with the photo session that he has requested that Testino shoot a new series of official pictures for him.

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January 2003