How Vogue Australia’s covers have evolved over the magazine’s 60-year history
October 21, 2019 | News | No Comments
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In 2019, Australia celebrates its 60th birthday, marking six decades since the fashion title launched in Australia. As part of the magazine’s birthday celebrations, a collaboration was born between Australia and the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, to launch a retrospective exhibition that celebrates our rich history. Titled , the exhibition presents the best, the boldest and the most beautiful photography from the fashion magazine’s archives. The exhibit is presented as a three-part narrative – Looking Back, Looking Out and Looking Forward – which means we’ve not only been delving into our history but also examining our present, as well as what Australia should look like in the future. It’s this process that has allowed us to reflect on some of the most iconic fashion moments over the decades and we’ve been able to track how the magazine has evolved over its 60-year history by looking at the changing nature of the cover.
The very first issue of Australia (above) came out in the 1950s and was a spring/summer issue released in 1959, with the cover photographed by Norman Parkinson. This very special cover is featured among the selection of vintage Australia covers not only presented in the exhibition, but also below. In the 60s and 70s, esteemed photographers such as Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Henry Talbot and Lord Snowden captured the magazine’s covers, with the identities of many cover stars unknown. As we move into the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, you will see that our cover stars are often recognisable faces, right up to our September 2019 issue, starring Australian Hollywood actor Margot Robbie. Nowadays, the images presented by leading fashion photographers, including Nicole Bentley and Charlie Dennington, present a cross-section between the fashion model and the celebrity, with the likes of Akiima Ajak, Adut Akech, Charlee Fraser, Fernanda Ly and Andreja Pejić embodying the diversity the magazine represents in the 21st century.
We commence by looking at iconic covers from the magazine’s first decade, 1959 to 1969, before moving into the second decade, 1969 to 1979. Scroll on to see them all.
Check back next week as we delve into the 1980s.
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