Vogue Magazine
Vogue fashion magazine has impacted the fashion world and influenced American culture for over a hundred years.
Vogue fashion magazine is most commonly known for its role in the fashion industry. Many Americans view this magazine as nothing more than a collaboration of fashion photographs and pretty faces. In actuality, Vogue has been used as a source of platform for both political and social issues. It has provided a record for the feminist movement throughout American history. The magazine has also been used as a symbol of social status in American society and relfects the cultural views and acceptance of new ideas within America.
“Although the possible combination of genitalia, body shapes, clothing, mannerisms, sexuality, and roles could produce infinite varieties in human beings, the social institution of gender depends on the production and maintenance of a limited number of gender statuses and of make the members of these stauses similar to be taught to be masculine or feminine.” This statement by Judith Lorber was used in her discussion of the social construction of gender. Vogue has played a huge role in producing a constant example of acceptable feminism for many years.
History of Vogue
Influences of Vogue on American Popular Culture
Controversies of Vogue
Minds of Vogue
Vogue Website
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The Devil Wears Prada is a wonderful example of a powerful and influential fashion magazine and the work it takes to run such a powerful fashion empire. This film also captures the ideas that a fashion magazine can so greatly influence American culture and the women within its view.
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