Hermione Eyre
Supermodels for Social Justice
Glossy: The Inside Story of Vogue
By Nina-Sophia Miralles
Quercus 330pp £20
‘There has always been the lingering speculation … that Vogue was on the verge of collapse,’ writes Nina-Sophia Miralles. ‘That cry went up when the founder died in 1906, during the Depression of the 1930s, in the youth-led revolution of the 1960s and at the dawn of the blogger generation of the 2010s. But no one can truly believe there will be an end. Vogue will always be Vogue.’
Like a sort of Botox junkie, Vogue stays the same because she changes so much. The latest incarnation of British Vogue is full of politics and new pieties but the same costly accessories. Vogue has always had both prestige and mutability, shape-shifting with absolute self-belief to fit the mood of
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