British Vogue: Celebrating an Icon

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British Vogue cover featuring a glamorous black-and-white photograph of a model in an elegant, flowing dress, promoting 'The Biography of an Icon' by Julie Summers.

5pm - 6pm : Jarrolds

History Non-fiction
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The history of fashion's foremost tastemaker.

More than just a fashion magazine, more than a brand, Vogue is an institution, a major business and a character in its own right.  

Join author Julie Summers in conversation as she tells the captivating story of the magazine and the individuals who created it. We’ll take an insightful, and fascinating, look at how British Vogue grew into a definitive chronicle of social history since its first issue in 1916 to present day.   

From the trauma of two World Wars, through to the swinging Sixties and the rise of the supermodels in the 1990s, we’ll be tracing world events through the lens of this remarkable fashion magazine and exploring an extraordinary century of change, upheaval and beauty. 

Tickets £10

Julie Summers has written the first book to give British Vogue its rightful place at the centre of an impeccably researched biography...always changing and always fascinating.

Alexandra Shulman, former editor of British Vogue

Julie Summers

Julie Summers is the author of 14 works of non-fiction including Fashion on the Ration and Dressed for War, the biography of the wartime editor of Vogue. Born and brought up in the Northwest, she studied at Bristol University and the Courtauld Institute of Art. From 1984 she worked at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Henry Moore Foundation as a curator and became head of exhibitions at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford before becoming a full-time writer.