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Event - 1950s in Vogue: The Jessica Daves Years, 1952-1962

  • The Wing Washington D.C. 1056 Thomas Jefferson Street Northwest Washington, DC, 20007 United States (map)

Fashion historian and author, Rebecca C. Tuite, will be at The Wing Chicago to talk all about her new book, 1950s in Vogue: The Jessica Daves Years, 1952-1962.

Join us for an evening on American Vogue’s most enigmatic editor-in-chef, Jessica Daves, and a fascinating moment in the magazine’s history. Appointed editor-in-chief in 1952, Jessica Daves began a decade-long effort to elevate the world’s most influential fashion magazine to new standards. Daves’s Vogue was the first to embrace a “high/low” blend of fashion, offering a complete vision of how other areas of modern life contributed to defining taste and style, and profiling contemporary style-icons, from John and Jackie Kennedy to Charles and Ray Eames. a presentation that shares the overlooked story of Vogue editor-in-chief, Jessica Daves, followed by a discussion of all things midcentury fashion and culture in the pages of the world’s most influential fashion magazine.