Jessica Chastain in Theyskens’ Theory, right.
Right: Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, December 2013.
“Costume Art,” the upcoming Met exhibition, will bring together art and fashion with the dressed body as the nexus between them. That’s a combination Vogue also tackled over the years, though in different contexts and usually without concerns around conservation. The magazine has often published photographs loosely evocative works of art. Consider a famous 1931 snap by George Hoyningen-Huene of a model in a Vionnet dress who looks every inch like a classic Hellenic sculpture. In other instances life (and fashion) actively mimic art. Who can forget when Cate Blanchett channeled Queen Elizabeth I as she was portrayed in the Armada Portrait? Or when Nicole Kidman slipped into a black velvet dress to play Madame X, as painted by John Singer Sargent? Recreations of specific paintings have included a 1945 rendition of Edgar Degas’s At the Milliner’s and a 2023 reimagining of Edward Hopper’s High Noon. Scroll to see these Vogue editorial stories and many other meetings of art and fashion in the pages of Vogue.
Maya Hawke in a Miu Miu dress, right.
Right: Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, December 2023.
Jessica Chastain in Alexander McQueen, right.
Right: Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, December 2013.
Saoirse Ronan in Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquière, right.
Right: Photographed by Steven Meisel, Vogue, December 2011.
Saoirse Ronan wears a Valentino Haute Couture velvet dress; De Vera necklace, right.
Right: Photographed by Steven Meisel, Vogue, December 2011.
Rooney Mara in Vera Wang, right.
Right: Photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Vogue, November 2011.
Cate Blanchett in Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquière; Ella Gem necklaces, right.
Right: Photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, July 2007.
Nicole Kidman in a Rochas by Olivier Theyskens dress; Fred Leighton earrings, right.
Right: Photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, September 2003.
Nicole Kidman in Oscar de la Renta; Jana Starr fan, right.
Right: Photographed by Steven Meisel, Vogue, June 1999.
George Balachine as Pulcinella, right.
Right: Photographed by Duane Michals, Vogue, December 1972.
Coty Originals lipsticks named for the days of the week, plus a stick of Anytime lipstick, enabled “a multiple lipstick life.”
Right: Photographed by John Chan, Vogue, August 1967.
Veruschka in a djellaba of gold ringed transparent organza fabric by in Gladstone in Libya.
Right: Photographed by Franco Rubartelli, Vogue, April 1967.
Veruschka in a white mink Gunther Jaeckel tennis dress with George Segal’s Walking Man at Sidney Janis Gallery.
Fransisco Goya, Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga or The Little Red Boy, photographed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jules S. Bache Collection, with a doppelganger.
From left, Alfred H. Barr, Jruniorthe Museum of Modern Art’s Director of Collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator, Robert Hale, and Hermon More, Director of the Whitney Museum of Art, with work by 53 living American artists.
Right: Photographed by Herbert Matter, Vogue, February 1950.
Atalanta, Pandora, and Anne Clifford, the daughters of Sir Bede and Lady Clifford, right.
Right: Photographed by Clifford Coffin, Vogue, October 1947.
Joan Pedersen in a ruffled dress and shawl by Arpad and shoes by Joyce on the cover of Vogue’s “Week-end Plans” edition.
Right: Illustrated by Rene R. Bouche, Vogue, June 1947.
“At the Milliner’s”—after a Degas Painting
Right: Photographed by Erwin Blumenfeld, Vogue, February 1945.
“Balenciaga, in his Mid-Season Collection, draws on Goya’s richness of fabric and colour, and round-hipped, tiny-waisted court belles,” right.
Right: Illustrated by Carl Oscar August Erickson, Vogue, July 1939.
Pale pink crepe pajamas by Vionnet, right.
Right: Photographed by George Hoyningen-Huene, Vogue, November 1931.
