Fashion Speak Fridays: 1950s in Vogue

Join fashion historian Rebecca Tuite for an evening on American Vogue’s most enigmatic editor-in-chef, Jessica Daves, and a fascinating moment in the magazine’s history.

Appointed editor-in-chief in 1952, Daves began a decade-long effort to elevate the world’s most influential fashion magazine to new standards. Daves’s Vogue was the first to embrace a “high/low” blend of fashion, offering a complete vision of how other areas of modern life contributed to defining taste and style, and profiling contemporary style-icons, from John and Jackie Kennedy to Charles and Ray Eames.

Tuite is a fashion historian and writer. In addition to 1950s in Vogue: The Jessica Daves Years, 1952-1962, she is the author of Seven Sisters Style: The All- American Preppy Look. She has served as a fashion history consultant and expert for print articles and television segments for the BBC, The Travel Channel and CNN, among others.

1950s fashion is highly encouraged!

Free to the public with RSVP.











When: Fri., Dec. 6, 2019 at 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: The National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park S.
212-475-3424
Price: Free
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Join fashion historian Rebecca Tuite for an evening on American Vogue’s most enigmatic editor-in-chef, Jessica Daves, and a fascinating moment in the magazine’s history.

Appointed editor-in-chief in 1952, Daves began a decade-long effort to elevate the world’s most influential fashion magazine to new standards. Daves’s Vogue was the first to embrace a “high/low” blend of fashion, offering a complete vision of how other areas of modern life contributed to defining taste and style, and profiling contemporary style-icons, from John and Jackie Kennedy to Charles and Ray Eames.

Tuite is a fashion historian and writer. In addition to 1950s in Vogue: The Jessica Daves Years, 1952-1962, she is the author of Seven Sisters Style: The All- American Preppy Look. She has served as a fashion history consultant and expert for print articles and television segments for the BBC, The Travel Channel and CNN, among others.

1950s fashion is highly encouraged!

Free to the public with RSVP.

Buy tickets/get more info now