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.