GLOSSY - THE INSIDE STORY OF VOGUE

'Dame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful
journalists on the planet. But it wasn't always like that. When she started out
on Vogue she was often so miserable she had to phone her husband for help.
This is just one of countless fascinating titbits in this zippy story of dizzying
fortune, out-of this-world fashion, ingenuity, passion, sex and power.
And, this being fashion, some intense bitchiness too. Started as a gossip
magazine for snobbish New Yorkers in 1892, Vogue is now one of the most
recognisable brands in the world. Spanning London, New York and Paris, this is
a high-speed, fun read full of fascinating though not always likeable people.'
Daily Mail
Glossy is a story of more than a magazine. It is a story of passion and power, dizzying
fortune and out-of-this-world fashion, of ingenuity and opportunism, frivolity and malice.
This is the definitive story of Vogue.
Vogue magazine started, like so many great things do, in the spare room of someone's
house. But unlike other such makeshift projects that flare up then fizzle away, Vogue
burnt itself onto our cultural consciousness.
Today, 128 years later, Vogue spans 22 countries, has an international print readership
upwards of 12 million and nets over 67 million monthly online users. Uncontested market
leader for a century, it is one of the most recognisable brands in the world and a multimillion dollar money-making machine. It is not just a fashion magazine, it is the
establishment. But what - and more importantly who - made Vogue such an enduring
success?
Glossy will answer this question and more by tracing the previously untold history of the
magazine, from its inception as a New York gossip rag, to the sleek, corporate behemoth
we know now. This will be a biography of Vogue in every sense of the word, taking the
reader through three centuries, two world wars, plunging failures and blinding successes,
as it charts the story of the magazine and those who ran it.