Vanity Fair (from the English. - " Vanity Fair ") - an American magazine dedicated to politics , fashion and other aspects of mass culture . Published by Condé Nast Publications .
| Vanity fair | |
|---|---|
 1914 magazine cover (image from the library of Congress ). | |
| Specialization | popular culture , politics |
| Periodicity | monthly |
| Tongue | English |
| Chief Editor | Graydon Carter |
| A country |  USA |
| Publisher | Condé nast publications |
| Edition History | published since 1913 |
| Established | |
| Circulation | 1,167,499 (2008) [1] |
| ISSN print version | 0733-8899 |
| Web site | www.vanityfair.com |
History
The magazine appeared in 1913 when Conde Nast acquired the men's fashion magazine Dress . “Costume”) and renamed it Dress and Vanity Fair (“Costume and Vanity Fair”). In the same year, the first four issues were published under this name. After a short period of inactivity, the magazine began to appear as Vanity Fair . He gained wide popularity under the leadership of . In 1919, Robert Benchley [2] , who hired the future playwright Robert Sherwood , joined the editorial staff. Croninshield drew the best writers of his time to the magazine: Aldous Huxley , Thomas Eliot , Ferenc Molnar , Gertrude Stein , William Sibrook , June Barnes [3] .
By 1915, more advertising was published on the pages of Vanity Fair than on the pages of any other US magazine [4] . However, the Great Depression led to a drop in advertising offers, despite the fact that the print runs reached a peak of 90 thousand copies. In 1935, Conde Nast announced that Vanity Fair ceases to exist and merges with Vogue [5] .
In June 1981, it was announced that Condé Nast Publications was resuming publication of the magazine [6] . The first issue appeared in February 1983. Its editor was Richard Locke of The New York Times Book Review [7] .
Since 1993, the magazine began to publish on the last page of its issues the answers of famous people to the so-called “ Proust questionnaire ”, and in 2009 published the most noteworthy answers in the form of a book [8] [9] .
Notes
- ↑ Average Total Paid & Verified Circulation for Top 100 ABC Magazines . Magazine Publishers of America . Date of treatment July 20, 2009. Archived April 14, 2012.
- ↑ Norris W. Yates, Robert Benchley . (New York City, Twayne Publishers , 1968. ISBN 0-8057-0048-X ). - S. 49.
- ↑ About Town , by Ben Yagoda , Scribner, 2000, p. 37.
- ↑ About Town , by Ben Yagoda, Scribner, 2000, pp. 36.
- ↑ Vanity Fair Merged With Vogue by Nast, New York Times , December 30, 1935, p. 21. Conde Nast Publications To Combine Two Magazines, Wall Street Journal , December 31, 1935, p. 2.
- ↑ Conde Nast to Revive Vanity Fair Magazine, Wall Street Journal , July 1, 1981, p. sixteen.
- ↑ Sandra Salmans, “Covering the Elite at Condé Nast,” New York Times , February 6, 1983, p. F1.
- ↑ Benchik, Marek. Profile of Proust. Half the kingdom for the red word // Foreign Literature. - 2015. - No. 2 . - S. 148-155 . - ISSN 0130-6545 .
- ↑ David Bowie answers the Proust Questionnaire . Poster. Circulation date May 6, 2019.