The Man Behind Vanity Fair
Posted on August 5th, 2010 by admin
The same man who created Vogue, Conde Nast, bought the legal rights to Vanity Fair and reintroduced it to the public as a hybrid journal. The name of the journal was “Dress & Vanity Fair” and did not see much success so it was cancelled after just four issues. Later in 1914 Frank Crowninshield, who was the editor in chief of the time, made some significant changes. Crowninshield moved in an artsy direction and ran features on illustrators, authors such as Aldous Huxley and D.H Lawrence and well-known artists Brancusi and Picasso. This new style was received well and made the magazine hugely popular among the most cultured people and celebrities especially with famous photographers such as Baron de Mayer and Edward Steichen on board. People began to look at Vanity Fair for news about the wealthy elite and as a way to see what politicians, actors, athletes and artists were up to. Unfortunately the magazine was not able to make it past 1936 because of the Great Depression.
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